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Draghi fires bazooka, misses target
So Mario Draghi today fired what was supposed to be his big bazooka of monetary stimulus, but when the markets had digested the new schemes the ECB has cooked [...]
How is the gender pay gap doing?
Today is International Women’s Day, and the papers are full of reminders that allegedly we have a way to go before achieving real equality between the [...]
The US creates more low paying jobs
US non farm payroll posted another gain in February, when the US economy added 242,000 jobs. The bad news though is that, just as last month, it is was [...]
Mervyn King’s courage to do nothing
Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chief during the 2007 crash, published his memoir entitled “The Courage to Act” in October – which Peter Schiff said [...]
Divine intervention: God doesn’t like shopping on Sundays
A group of British Christian leaders with nothing better to do has written an open letter to warn against a relaxation of the Sunday trading hours legislation. [...]
Inflation and the global currency war
When ECB chief Mario Draghi earlier this month warned that “there are forces in the global economy today that are conspiring to hold inflation down,” he [...]
The end of History? How the mainstream wants you to think its all good
From Karl Marx to Francis Fukuyama, ‘thinkers’ have argued that history has a final, stable state that will persist for eternity. This is hardly a recent [...]
The war on cash is coming
The gradual transition to a cashless society has finally made its way from obscure technicality/conspiracy theory to the pages of mainstream newspapers, after [...]
Only aliens can save us now!
They can’t say they weren’t warned: contrarian voices have been saying for years that the modern day alchemists in the central banks would not succeed in [...]