French and U.K. Elections Could Boost the Dollar and U.S. Treasuries
About the author: Patti Domm is an Emmy Award-winning financial journalist.No matter the outcome of upcoming European elections, the immediate winner could...
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Next Government Must Act Fast to Retain Global Lead
The U.K. election is July 4, and polls indicate a new Labour government is inevitable. The crypto ecosystem in the...
Sir Keir Starmer is about to discover just how lucky he really is
These extra costs help explain why the tax burden has risen to record peacetime levels even as public services are...
Big Tech firms are powering the US economy. Politicians shouldn’t stop them
There are three parts to the answer. First, monopolies can arise even in rapidly-growing markets. However, it is important to...
Britain’s paltry savings are in Labour’s crosshairs
It’s one thing to limit the extent of tax relief on pension contributions, but it is quite another for the...
Britain is no longer the problem child of Europe – France proves that
Remarkably, on the “Left”, the Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) appears to be even more fiscally irresponsible. In fact, what could rattle...
Ghosts of the ’70s haunt Labour’s economic resurrection
The prospect of all that extra QE debt being sold inflamed financial markets, with gilt prices immediately falling, pushing up...
Lazy civil servants are driving Britain to the brink
By now, the playbook is familiar. Anyone who challenges the cosy status quo of the British establishment finds themselves demonised...
Beware Farage’s £40bn raid on banks – there is no such thing as a free lunch
Some critics argue that stopping the Bank paying interest would be impractical and/or extremely dangerous. Yet the Bank only started...
The EU’s war on Chinese electric cars will sink its once-mighty auto industry
We can argue about whether the Chinese cars are subsidised by the state or are simply manufactured more efficiently by...
