Out of the countries shown, the UK is perhaps the most confounding. Over the data period it has experienced significant political upheaval and societal division, centered around the Brexit vote. In 2016, the statistics suggest that Britain actually became happier and has remained on this trend until the end of the data period…
August 2015
The decline in growth in China is contributing to depressing the prices of commodities and the knock-on effect for Africa, Latin America and even Australia is depressing their economies. The economic pain in Latin America …
August 2014
Global trade and a great deal of prosperity generated over the last decade or so has depended on the free movement of goods and people. In the last few months there has been an insidious and growing disruption to both. The shooting down of the Malaysian airliner over Ukraine has caused a hidden but very major disruption to airline routes. It had been assumed that airlines …
December 2012
Politically led witch-hunts of legitimate businesses that are compliant with law but don’t seem to be paying enough tax is undermining the reason why so many businesses come to the UK or are successful in the UK. This is a very dangerous trend, particularly from a Conservative Government…
November 2012
Next year should prove to be one of considerable growth in the Pacific and the US. It is only hoped that Europe will hold together politically for long enough to benefit. The greatest worry is that the huge percentage of unemployed in the population of southern Europe will….