Funding the Future

Trump is setting out to create chaos. That he’s doing so is not an accident. It’s deliberate. Can we react in time to save anything of value in the world that we’ve known?

Top-down thinking tells us what we can’t do because it assumes things aren’t possible, which is exactly what our politicians keep saying. Is it time to liberate ourselves with some bottom-up thinking?

Trump is bringing financial markets down whilst increasing tensions inside and outside the USA. How long is it before he delivers a meltdown?

Young people are giving up on democracy because our politicians are giving up on them. But it’s not democracy that’s at fault – it is our politicians who are. We need a politics that delivers for young people, or the future is very bleak.

The world’s developing countries mainly owe their debts in dollars. Trump is, however, making it harder for them to earn dollars, and is trying to inflate the dollar’s value. The result will be massive poverty.

Anyone can become an MP. No training is required, and them they set the rules for everyone else. That’s absurd. All prospective parliamentarians and councillors should have to take an exam to prove their competence.

Fire and flooding are making houses uninsurable. Will this crash the housing market? There are strong signs it will, unless the government takes action.

The DeepSeek AI model challenges US capitalism at its very core – suggesting its whole model of creating value for a few by extracting maximum revenues from people as a result of the abuse of monopoly power might have to end.

Rachel Reeves thinks people want deregulation, growth and big infrastructure from government, She’s wrong. They want government that works, better jobs and lower interest rates.

Charter cities are a right-wing fantasy. They’re being prompted by the same people who gave us the economics of Liz Truss. And they’d be even more harmful than she was.