Funding the Future

Young people, most especially, are struggling to find reasons for hope in the world neoliberal politics has created, and who can blame them?

Labour's been knocked for six. The Tories face oblivion. And Reform are threatening politics as we know it. Did Thursday represent a political earthquake?

Despite the madness of Trump, the continuing reality of tariffs and an unsurprising fall in US GDP, stock markets have recovered their losses. This makes no sense at all. What is happening?

Carney and Starmer are technocrats - stuck in the middle without ever realising there are clowns to the right of them, and no jokers, or anything else, to their left. 

Is the idea of central bank independence all a game of smoke and mirrors designed to funnel money in the direction of the City of London? It's a question that has to be asked. 

Issuing the world's reserve currency gives a country the advantage of not having to, in effect, pay for many of its imports. Trump has never understood that. 

The world needs a liberal Pope. What happens in Rome over the next few weeks is part of the power play that is shaping the world we will live in.

Keir Starmer is the UK's prime minister without ever understanding what the role demands, or that he has none of the required skills to undertake the task.

Who is thinking about the world after Trump? We need to do that because Trump is a temporary phenomenon. But what will come after him?