As the US pulls out of Iraq and we in Ireland are faced, in 2012, with choosing between a tighter relationship with core Europe or something looser with Britain as our key ally, the article from ten years ago this week on the nature of empires and diplomacy is still...
Morning, Looking back this week five and ten years ago reveals what was going on. The first article is from December 6th 2006 and it documents the madness of people shopping with other people’s money in NYC. The last paragraph just about sums it up, revealing...
Yesterday the possible failure of a major European bank is likely to have been the trigger for the central banks of the world to hit the panic button and in so doing, admit that the European banking system is in tatters. Against this background it is interesting to...
Dear Reader, This website was set up eleven years ago. Jesus, time flies. Back in 2000, it was clear to me that we were at the beginning of a cycle which would see an enormous bout of credit-driven inflation, leading to a crash and giving way to a period of deflation...
