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27 09, 2022

The Government must remind the debt markets who is the strongest player

Trade & Economy|

By Richard Tice – 3 minute read MARKETS ARE BRUTAL and will abuse anyone perceived as weak. At the moment, bizarrely, it is the strongest player in the market who is allowing itself to be bullied after the bazooka fiscal event last Friday. The markets only heard about tax cuts, but also wanted to hear [...]

21 09, 2022

Why we should embrace the ‘falling’ pound

Trade & Economy|

By Catherine McBride – 7 minute read THE MEDIA has moved on from the Conservative leadership election and Royal funeral and has now started to worry about the falling pound – but should we? The Pound is low relative to the US dollar, but so are most currencies at the moment, except interestingly for the [...]

15 08, 2022

We should be diversifying our food imports – not relying on the EU

Brexit-Watch, Trade & Economy|

By Catherine McBride – 5 minute read WHILE MOST PEOPLE are worried about coming shortages: fuel, food and even water, there are still some members of the Twitter fraternity worried about surpluses. Specifically gluts of agricultural products – or what most of us would call ‘food’ – being imported into the UK from Australia and [...]

1 08, 2022

How EU protectionism damages our environment

As We See It, Trade & Economy|

By Brian Monteith – 4 minute read UNTIL our government changes its mindset to do things differently from the EU we shall continue lazily to adopt its norms irrespective of whether or not they are appropriate to us. You probably did not know that last year the European Commission proposed a new law to halt [...]

23 06, 2022

How free trade is attacked by protectionist lobbyists using ‘environmentalism’ as cover

As We See It, Trade & Economy|

By Brian Monteith – 6 minute read HERE WE GO AGAIN! Another attempt to demonise Palm oil and save the world. This time it’s a rather unsubtle and loose article in The Mirror suggesting Palm oil causes cancer. It’s nonsense, of course, but a lack of credible evidence never stopped lobbyists and activists from creating [...]

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