The pessimists are emphasising a lack of overall pick up in GDP. This makes for good press headlines and discussion for the pontificating pundits. The GDP is inevitably being depressed as the Government …
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…
December 2012
The atmosphere of economic gloom that surrounds western economists and journalists is beginning to feel like a comfort blanket. Those who have to take decisions today about future investment, particularly investments that may take a year or more to mature, have to be exceedingly…
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….
October 2012
The hope is that slowly the politicians of Britain and Europe, the Old World, will learn through the experience on both left and right that more regulation is not going to create a happy and prosperous…..
August 2012
The major difficulty with the economic world today is that there is an overload of opinion purporting to be information. This is rather a roundabout way of coming to a necessary observation on the London Olympics…