How Brexit 'Wrecked the Stock Market'

May 17, 2024 | "How Brexit Wrecked The Stock Market" is the startling title of new blog by Simon Nixon, one time chief leader writer for the Times and former chief European commentator on the Wall Street journal.

Simon Nixon’s Substack "The Wealth of Nations" (https://nixons.substack.com/) is a must read for anyone interested in the workings of the UK economy.

The Rich Have You Brainwashed: Capitalism Is a Zero-sum Game, They Win, You Lose

Apr 25, 2024 | The elites - especially the rich - want you to believe that capitalism is not a zero sum game. This is the false hope that fuels the American dream. The fact is that social mobility is lower in the USA than it is in socialist industrialized countries such as Scandinavia, France, and Germany.

Most wealth in the West is not made - but is inherited (Piketty). Ironically, new fortunes are generated in quasi-capitalistic places like China, Russia, and Vietnam or India. Economy not zero-sum game (growth pie all around, for consumers and producers), but capitalism is.

Marx was right about this (and only this). Like Communism, Fascism, or Socialism, Capitalism is a method to allocate resources, means of production, and surplus. Capitalism uses the price signal in a free market (as opposed to central planning).

Proof that is zero-sum: taking from the rich to give to the poor (taxation as progressive distributive justice) and taking from the poor to give back to the rich (regressive inflation, taxation, and asset bubbles). But why, in an environment of growth is the game zero sum? Because of scarcity. The rich cannot reinvest all their income and so it is taken out of circulation to the poor (though it is still available to the businesses of the rich via the banking system). Another reason: depletion of natural resources. These shortages are camouflaged by fiat money, debt, and the symbolic economy. But these are Ponzi schemes and they crumble periodically in cycles of boom and bust.

Britain Can’t Afford to Keep Brexit, It’s a Costly Misadventure Which Only Benefits a Few!

May 10, 2024 | Britain continues on with delivering Brexit self sanctioning measures which impoverishes more people every day. Brexit is working to destroy our #foodsecurity leaving Britain weak and poor and reliant on world markets for food. Adam Posen, former Bank of England policy maker, has been proved absolutely right as have all the people who warned against doing Brexit.