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By  David Craig, on June 27th, 2022Monday/Tuesday blog How was your pandemic? Did you become a lot richer? Probably not. America – From billionaires to squillionaires As the U.S. crossed the grim milestone of 1 million deaths from Covid-19, U.S. billionaires have seen their combined wealth rise over $1.7 trillion, a gain of over 58 percent during the pandemic. While billionaires […] By David Craig, on June 13th, 2022Monday blog I don’t have a story today. But I found this shortish (10 minutes) video quite interesting. It explains the background of James Bond-ish villain Klaus Schwab and his World Economic Forum:
When watching this, we should probably remember one of Adam Smith’s most famous quotes:
And here’s […] By David Craig, on April 24th, 2022Sunday/Monday blog First a bit of nonsense. Then the serious stuff. Azog, Putin and the Orcs I saw a bit of a film on TV on Saturday evening. It was the third part of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy – The Battle of the Five Armies. The piece I saw featured the evil […] By David Craig, on April 23rd, 2022weekend blog Back to slightly more serious stuff. But nothing too controversial. Here’s an aspect of our greedy, self-serving, net-zero-obsessed, incompetent government of which readers might not have been aware: Yes Ministers? One of the many ways for MPs to increase the amounts of our money they can pocket is by becoming government ministers. In […] By David Craig, on April 21st, 2022Thursday blog Looting – Sri Lanka’s favourite national sport? As you probably know, the once glorious island paradise of Sri Lanka is bankrupt and descending into a failed state. The three main reasons seem to me to be: decades of utterly incompetent government massive, unrepayable loans, especially from China’s Belt and Road debt colonialism/enslavement alleged […] |
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