DABERIAM XCVII

Nothing much, in reality, has changed since I put pen to paper in February, but the excuses have! Only a month or so ago the world economic problems were blamed by politicians and economists on the banking crisis...

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DABERIAM XC

While the UK is in the grip, or should I say, smokescreen of the election campaign, it has become apparent to me that politics and economics have become detached. The lack of leadership of the two major parties and the paucity of political philosophy from both has allowed, even encouraged, a proliferation of parties led by “characters”...

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DABERIAM LXXXVIII

My last comments in November were somewhat pessimistic, particularly with regard to Europe, and this pessimism grows. It is now clear that the European Central Bank has finally capitulated to implementing Quantitative Easing...

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DABERIAM LXXX

It seems a long time since October when the US government decided to frighten the world’s financial systems by taking party political bickering to within a whisker of causing the government to default. The pantomime passed and the curtain came down but the lasting impression left on thinking people in the rest of the world is that the US system of Government is dangerously dysfunctional...

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DABERIAM LXXVI

Following a trip to Asia in March, I was on the east and west coast of the USA in April with a side trip to Bermuda. It is interesting to note, as an aside, that Bermuda, an idyllic island with an enormous income stream as a corporate headquarters, is slowly strangling itself with socialism...

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