Good point👇

Wait, weren't Dublin saying 5 minutes ago that a hard border between NI and the Republic meant a return to the Troubles??

'His was a burning urge was less to serve Scots than to save them - give them the racial-awareness training they supposedly need. It was no longer us putting pressure on them to improve society, but them putting pressure on us to improve ourselves.' #HumzaYousaf

Well, sure. Fine. But, once again, I am struck by the way many London-based media folk are disinclined to hold SNP politicians to anything like the standard they demand of Labour or Tory ones. (Ditto with Northern Ireland, too.)

Why are Irish politicians presuming to comment on immigration into their country when, de facto, the rules are a matter for the EU?
You can’t give away your hard won sovereignty only to pretend to the public that you have powers that are actually ultra vires.

It makes NO sense for Japan's MoF to intervene to strengthen Yen (black), if - simultaneously - BoJ is buying JGBs (blue), which weakens Yen. This is what happened in 2022, when $/JPY was 140. We're now at 157, which tells you just how ineffective this kind of intervention is...

What happened to all those UK Leftists saying “borrow more & invest; money is cheap”?
Japan, the US etc now find that their interest bill is up & huge, & as debt is rolled over it goes up still more.
I can’t see a way out that doesn’t involve inflation - a sly form of default.

Japan has a long and unsuccessful history of official FX intervention in the Yen. Now is no different. After a brief strengthening, Yen is already falling again. Only way to stabilize Yen is to allow 10-year JGB yield to rise sharply, which is something Japan can't afford to do.

During the pandemic, Sweden was ridiculed because of its no-lockdown pandemic approach. Now, the evidence is in.

The Economist's Covid-19 excess death estimates show that Sweden fared MUCH better than most of Europe.

As the Herby-Jonung-Hanke book 'Did Lockdowns Work?' found:…

Many are speculating that Japan intervened in the market, explaining its currency's movement against the dollar.

Enjoy the ride.

It is just getting started…

The #MMT crowd is trying to 'normalize' the huge drop in the Yen. In real effective terms, Yen is down more than Turkish Lira, Egyptian Pound or Argentinian Peso since 2019. Japan is a debt crisis that's morphed into a currency crisis. There's nothing normal about any of that...

A Chinese state think tank is warning that China needs to reduce its treasury holdings further to diminish the United States' potential leverage.

Things are starting to heat up.

Pay attention.

Real GDP growth over last five decades. Spoiler, as none of European issues are being addressed, Europe will continue to fall behind.

Wake up Europe, the digital age is bypassing you. You have no Google , Amazon, Meta, Apple. You arrogantly called SpaceX a fanciful dream and it wiped out the European Space Agency. You have no Nvidia and your response to AI has been to regulate before you have anything domestic…

I wonder how much of European taxpayer money, the EU wasted trying to make Twitter & YouTube rivals.

No doubt in the hundreds of millions.

You glad you left yet?

EU Voice and EU Video to be shut down in May, with the former having only 18 active users

archive.ph/nFTix

European Greens & Reds decry growth, are appalled by profit, deprecate entrepreneurs & non doms, & attack banks & energy firms.
Consequently & ironically, Europe’s public services trail those of the USA… 👇

American schools are insanely well funded because America is a rich country.

Europe could have this, but it chooses overregulation and overtaxation instead.

My school had classes that would take place in large pre-fab blocks, like you see on construction sites.

“Already with a record number of executive orders and regulatory overreach by agencies such as the EPA, a climate emergency decree will allow the Biden administration to seize even more powers without restraint from the House’s control over the appropriations process.”…

JOBS: Microsoft UK increased its workforce in the UK by over 600 people in 2023, figures out today have shown.

#UKGoodNews

cityam.com/microsofts-uk-…

If you want a positive voice who will fight for Lambeth and Southwark in the GLA, make sure you go out and vote for Christine Wallace!

#Conservative