Economy
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Quarterly Vs Semi-Annual Earnings Reports
President Donald Trump believes that companies should cease reporting on a quarterly basis and switch to semiannual reports instead. Trump said that the concept is “subject to SEC approval” and would “save money, and allow managers to focus on properly running their companies.” JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and Warren Buffett also once voiced support for semiannual reporting. “In our…
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The real fiscal concern should be a populist government
Scare stories about UK fiscal policy seem a regular occurrence nowadays. The latest is the idea that the UK might have to go to the IMF for money. It’s nonsense of course. The UK government cannot run out of money because it can create reserves, just as it did when the world’s bond markets dried up at the start…
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Reform and the UK press
It was entirely predictable that immigration/asylum would become the issue voters thought was the most important facing the country. Many people relate concern about immigration or asylum seekers directly to numbers, but that is only half true. Information about numbers is mediated through the media, and in particular through the right wing press (which is most of the print media…
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When did relative UK decline begin? Productivity and the Global Financial Crisis
When did things start going wrong in the UK? Many would give the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) as the answer. Now that may be a good answer for some reasons (see below), but I want to suggest one reason that is perhaps not so good as it first appears. That reason is labour productivity, growth and living standards. Why does…
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Comment From Visitor Of Washington, DC
COMMENT FROM DC VISITOR: D.C. was clean and safe. There were some National Guard troops walking around, but most of them were just kids fooling around and taking pictures in front of monuments like the rest of the tourists. The city was skewed heavily to the left. I saw a few anti-Israel and anti-Trump protestors who seemed a little unhinged.…
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UK Growth, Productivity and Investment.
. Jagjit Chadha (ex head of NIESR and now a Professor at Cambridge) and Issam Samiri have an article in the Journal of Economic Surveys that focuses on the UK’s recent productivity problem. The chart above is taken from that article. Economic growth (or not), and therefore how fast living standards rise (or don’t) is all about productivity growth…
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The Rare Earth Crisis | Armstrong Economics
QUESTION: If Trump imposes sanctions on China for buying Russian energy, what do you expect China to do? Rob ANSWER: The deeper you look, the more it becomes abundantly clear. America’s defence supply chain is built on materials it doesn’t control. Missiles, fighter jets, radar systems, drones — all depend on a steady stream of materials like gallium, germanium, and…
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Bongino Shocked By The Deep State
QUESTION: Dear Marty, what could FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino mean with this words: „(…) what I have learned in the course of our properly predicated and necessary investigations into these aforementioned matters, has shocked me down to my core. We cannot run a Republic like this. I’ll never be the same after learning what I’ve learned. (…)“ Care to comment…
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Market Talk – July 21, 2025
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 closed • Shanghai increased 25.31 points or 0.72% to 3,559.79 • Hang Seng increased 168.48 points or 0.68% to 24,994.14 • ASX 200 decreased 89.00 points or -1.02% to 8,668.20 • SENSEX increased 442.61 points or 0.54% to 82,200.34 • Nifty50 increased 122.30 points or 0.49%…
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PRIVATE BLOG – War Is Coming NATO Wants To Send 250,000 Troops Into Ukraine
Blog War PRIVATE BLOG – War is Coming NATO Wants to Send 250,000 Troops into Ukraine Posted Jul 14, 2025 by Martin Armstrong | Private blog posts are exclusively available to Socrates subscribers. To sign-up for Socrates or to learn more, please visit Ask-Socrates.com. Source link
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