The Other Hand

Is Ireland destined to follow the populist path? Energy bills to hit €5000? BoE outlook is terrifying. Liz Truss is the continuity Johnson PM. Pelosi: right or wrong? Windfall energy profit taxes?

GLOBAL IMPACT ON IRISH TAX REVENUES NOT APPARENT IN JULY - THANKFULLY

Recession on both sides of the Atlantic - so stock markets go up. "Cakeism goes full gateau" in UK politics

How will stock markets perform when democracy collapses?

How high will European interest rates go? How much of a mistake is the ECB about to make? Italy's existential threat to the euro; the UK's existential problem. The problems with free market ideology.

Britain's broken politics: the Tories are a pound-shop version of Trump's Republican party. The world's inflation problem just keeps getting worse.

Johnson's populism has wrecked the UK. Fixing it is beyond any of his likely successors. Ireland's peculiar populism - Shinners in power but not (yet) in office - will lead to a fiscal crisis.

Reposting my thoughts on Johnson. Written a while back but kinda still feels relevant

THE SUMMER ECONOMIC STATEMENT & MID-YEAR EXCHEQUER RETURNS

Reposting an article I wrote a year ago about proper saving & investing. Before stock markets fell 20%. The piece still stands.

Rip-off Ireland? The end of he celebrity central banker. £ sterling crisis on he way? Will global property follow Bitcoin & stock markets down? BJ stories just get worse.

A piece I wrote a while back about crypto & Bitcoin & Niall Ferguson. Reposting - Yes it's a victory lap of sorts. Probably a buy signal!