‘Core message’ contains a summary of, & link to ‘The Longest War’, written in January 2022.

‘Video’ contains a Renegade Inc programme called ‘The Quickening’. A 30 minute conversation with Ross Ashcroft, the programme aired on RT on 1st July 2019.

‘Archive’ has links to all the stuff I’ve written since 2014, when I began commenting at the Financial Times newspaper.

The BoJ - a firm of dodgy builders

In response to an FT article by Gillian Tett on 3rd March 2016, entitled 'Japanese monetary firepower misses the mark'

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fe6740a4-e079-11e5-9217-6ae3733a2cd1.html#ixzz41tn3ud9v

The BoJ remind me of a firm of 'dodgy builders'.  E.G. If you keep applying extra layers of plaster to the surface of a damaged wall in order to cover up deep cracks - you have to apply ever thicker layers - until eventually the whole thing falls off in one big lump. 

That's what's happening in the Japanese economy. Eventually this ridiculous debt laden edifice will fall to the ground, and the wall will have to be rebuilt. 

Moving forward it'll be a good idea to employ a real builder rather than a guy who's spent thirty years studying the latest theories on neo-classical plastering.

The govt is not the economy - Martin Wolf gets one right...well almost

Neocons provide back-up in case Santa strategy fails