The state of the stock market is a multiplier of value due to speculative expectation. The rate cut seems very important as it signals that the relatively short period of supply side inflation has finally resolved so the money supply can increase (i.e. new debt can fund more activity).I am no expert but believe that …
Author: Nicholas Alexander
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The Grate Dictator
The model of appealing to populism, to lie and grasp power as if it belonged to a single person and hunt down and imprison your personal enemies has been done before. I think the most egregious example of this form of power was attempted by an Austrian named Adolf, but the most successful was probably …
Preparing for Proportional Representation
The UK has a journey to arrive at a place where PR could be a possibility. This election probably is not going to open up that opportunity, unless the Labour Party have some hidden agenda. The main threat is not really the Conservative Party which has shot itself in both feet, but the Reform party …
The economy of AGI
We attempt to build a machine that is self aware? Is this really what we should invest ourselves in? Or is there a more effective path? AI is only a machine. It has no “self”. We have a “self” but are we prepared to invest in ourselves at the same level as we invest in …
Elections in the West
It is a year of elections. The ones I have been focused on are in the Western world: the US election, and now the UK snap election. In both, the "sensible" vote seems to be on the Left. This is not because the Left is brilliant or even appropriate medicine to these great mature economies. …
The Cracks in Democracy
The British Parliament is one of the oldest parliamentary democracies in the modern world. But the system of democracy combined with tradition has perverted the course of fair law making. The problem is that "robust debate" now regularly incorporates a Government that attacks the opposition for what "it would do" instead of actually making good …
Political Affiliation
There's a war between the Left and the Right that will go on and on. Both sides have their point of view. One is driven by CAPITAL power and ther other SOCIAL needs. Perhaps they need each other to function. Then there is the CENTRE. The Centre has its own Right and Left: from liberalism to socialism. …
What is wrong with democracy?
We think democracy will save us from tyrants. We think that an escalating conflict between conservative and liberal, or capitalism and socialism will provide the best governments wanted by the majority. Huge majorities vote in 'strong-man' leaders who then clamp down on human rights on the promise of immigration controls. The liberal governments adopt a …
War and Peace
A state of war exists when a country is attacked and has to defend itself, or if a country decides to attack another country, but in these modern times an attack occurs usually by surprise so no declaration of war usually occurs or it would give the game away, the element of surprise is predominant …
Tribal Politics
What is wrong with politics? Is it a 'science'? Or is it an interpretation of human behaviour? I have often wondered if politics was invented as a replacement for war: diplomacy being a level of political resolution but politics has another meaning, another life in the arena of human thought and philosophy. We define a …