The Scottish Government have outlined plans to ban special offers on alcohol sales. They plan to bring in a minimum sales price per unit to help people with a drinking problem. Now, I don’t live in Scotland but I am sure if this doesn’t cause a huge problem it will be brought into England and [...]
I wish I had paid more attention in my Economic lessons because then I might have some understanding on what this ‘credit crunch’ thing is all about. In a nutshell I believe the problem was that Banks around the world (mainly in the US) lent money to people who had no way of paying it [...]
I hear that banks controlled by the public which do not lend the public money to the public will have to pay a fine using public money. Ministers, in their ultimate wisdom, believe the only way to get the credit system moving again is to give billions of pounds to the banking sector and then [...]
I was going to make some long winded post about the whole financial crisis but there are just so many things that are just beyond me. So, please find following a few thoughts and pictures so I can get a few things off my chest. As much as I hate Gordon Brown could you imagine [...]
For UK readers substitute President for Prime Minister. A little boy goes to his dad and asks, ‘What is Politics?’ Dad says, ‘Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I am the head of the family, so call me The President. Your mother is the administrator of the money, so we call [...]
