This part of the blog series on the political ascendancy of the professional and managerial classes (PMC) shall comment on the return of Donald Trump as 47th President of the USA and the reaction to the result, and future challenges ahead. Introduction It shall refer to the politically influential left leaning (or liberal in US […]
Worrying Times for the Old Global Order as Trump Returns? – Part 1 Read More »
In 2025 the UK Labour government, through their planning and infrastructure bill, wants to encourage investment in multiple asset classes as diverse as housebuilding and public sector projects such as schools, hospitals, and prisons along with increasing defence spending on number of military programmes. Whether shared-ownership homes, GP’s surgeries or submarines they all require co-operative
Farming, Building and Bombs: Challenges for 2025 and beyond Read More »
The summer months of 2024 have proved eventful with early general elections in the UK where the Labour party won a large majority on a third of the vote. In France too, a left-wing coalition gained seats in the Assembly Nationale over incumbent President Macron’s centrist UMP. Iran held a presidential election, after the untimely
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Despite economic concerns over issues such as inflation and rising interest rates, geo-political tensions and hostilities, the world’s largest economy has just had its gross domestic product growth revised up to 5.2% for period from July to September 2023, according to the Daily FX website. The Financial Times (2023) initially reported the story at the
That’s Resilience for You: US Q3 GDP Growth Revised Up from 4.9% to 5.2% Read More »
The complicity blog’s conclusion (Little Deal Clincher, August 2023) mentions of the Problem of Appropriate Accountability which concerns citizens who are substantially removed from decision-making or effective influence over events. These events can be political, military, or commercial. It is where culpability and complicity are retrospectively applied, after injustices or accusations of such have occurred,
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With the renaming and relaunching of the Little Deal Clincher blog to Navigating the Challenges of 21st Century Life: A Private Investor’s Perspective. It shall continue to comment on investment from the private investor’s perspective and to discuss political and cultural issues. The update makes the website easier to navigate with an archive of topic
Complicity: Accepting It Is Your Fault Forever? Read More »
Since the January 2022 blog, a rather lot economically and geo-politically has occurred, namely war in Ukraine which has given cause or excuse to global inflationary concerns with rising food and commodity prices. Fuel bills soared in 2022 with prices caps being introduced the alleviate consumer concerns. Prices for gas have since fallen although UK
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