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ZIRP:Vindication for a Slog obsession….from an unusual source.

A successful American demography investment analyst and a British blogger agree: ZIRP was the biggest mistake of all. […]

John Ward October 3, 2010 demographics, Harry S Dent, raising interest rates, Slog vindicated again

ANALYSIS: Why Basle III wouldn’t have helped Ireland. And why Bankfurt won’t either.

Trichet is playing a ruthless game, and Ireland may well be its first victim.   The soothing balm […]

John Ward October 3, 2010 EU crisis, Franco-German interests pramount., Trichet sacrificing periphery

SUNDAY ESSAY: Why an economic Ice Age is unavoidable.

Don’t imagine nice weather can banish climate change. Friday’s news that September had been the best month for […]

John Ward October 3, 2010 climate, economic Ice Age., weather outlook, World economy

My head may still be in France, but my heart is back in England.

It’s wet, and our windows here in Devon are being battered by a Channel gale. Harman’s Equality Act […]

John Ward October 3, 2010 Crash 2., England, home., retirement, sanity

Descent into pc madness (Continued)

The Coalition’s failure to stop Harman’s Equality Act is a betrayal, pure and simple. There is one failsafe […]

John Ward October 2, 2010 Coalition, david cameron., Equality Act, Harriet Harman, office banter, Theresa May

Effics, guvnor? Oi carn’t afford ’em.

So said Eliza’s father-villain in Shaw’s Pygmalion. How things have changed over a century of ‘progress’. In the […]

John Ward October 2, 2010 Crash 2., ethics, hedge funds leave UK, morals, Vince Cable

In the teacher State, education is the best weapon we have.

As we packed to leave here this afternoon, the telly was on in the background, just like it […]

John Ward October 1, 2010 aliens, BBC, Breaking...Julia Gillard Aussie leader, education, Ireland, lies individual decisions, Russia, Teacher State

UK EXPORTS: The truth is dawning….slowly.

Britain is still in a medium-term mess. For Ireland, the crisis is an impending disaster.   The latest […]

John Ward October 1, 2010 Ireland in a corner, UK exports poor, UK still a long way to go.

Doors of perception.

Helping to clean the kitchen yesterday, I was forced to look into the bin, the fridge and various […]

John Ward October 1, 2010 fridges, John Wyndham, stepladders, The Modern Drunkard.

ATHENS TAX SHOCK: Not entirely Greek to me…

 More bad guys in getting away with it drama. Greece’s parliament has pushed through legislation that in effect […]

John Ward October 1, 2010 Greece, Jim Firzpatrick, tax amnesties

ANALYSIS: GOLD – a grim reaper cushion.

George Soros has been wittering on recently about gold being a bubble.  As you’d expect from this chap, […]

John Ward October 1, 2010 big bubble., debasing currencies, gold., long

TURKEY: Press freedom flourishes beneath the tailored leather shoe of Recep Erdogan.

Bekir Coskun, a militantly secular columnist for a Turkish mass-circulation daily, Habertürk, was sacked last month. Pressure from […]

John Ward September 30, 2010 asked Queen to let Cameron try and form Government, Hague, limited press freedom, Recep Erdogan, Turkey

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