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Corruption

Graft, scandals and how crooked politics prices into markets — Clem on the corruption beat.

• The Hollowing Out of UK PLC: Altice and BT

  Remember British Airways? They exist, don’t they?

  23 May, 2023

• A World Drowning in Financial Sludge

  The UK’s FCA clearly has no self-awareness.

  07 January, 2023

• No Bitcoin? You Are Not Prepared for Prison Australia

  At first I couldn’t believe it. Then I read it officially on the Australian Government website.

  16 September, 2020

• A Salute to the Sacrifices of the Young

  I feel like the emperor of Rome looking down at the gladiators.

  24 May, 2020

• Governments Need to Govern Computers

  As a member of society you are highly regulated.

  12 April, 2019

• Have the Social Media Vote Riggers Been Stopped?

  Once apon a time you could predict the outcome of events by looking at the markets.

  19 March, 2019

• China’s Governance Crisis: The Next Global Economic Shock?

  When America sneezed the world caught a cold. Now when China catches a cold, America sneezes.

  26 January, 2016

• The Importance of Copyright and the Deception of Financial Engineering

  Copyright is a good thing but not everyone one agrees.

  15 November, 2015

• The Need for Drug Testing in Politics

  These days’ economics are strictly politics.

  30 July, 2015

• America Needs More Tax Inversion

  “Stop Tax inversion by American corporations” is the latest war cry of American socialists.

  17 August, 2014

• The Power of Google and the Future of American Politics

  One of the keys to successful investing is to be ahead of the crowd.

  28 June, 2014

• The Unseen Power of Google in American Politics

  One of the keys to successful investing is to be ahead of the crowd.

  28 June, 2014

• The Corruption Epidemic: A Global Dilemma

  It must be said America locks up a fair amount of its public servants for economic crimes.

  21 March, 2014

• Gold Fingers Are Back

  It is hard for people in the US and most of Europe to understand government corruption.

  15 March, 2014

• America's Addiction to Perpetual War

  While America spends $50m to kill a single Taliban and boosts Afganistan’s GDP by 1000% in the process, it is falling from economic primacy.

  27 August, 2013

• Justice in Finance: The Asymmetry of Regulation

  So it appears that middle ranking folks at J P Morgan are for the high jump over the loss making trading blow up of last year.

  12 August, 2013

• Financial Repression Makes Us Serfs

  Financial repression is the technique where government extracts wealth from the private sector and siphon it to themselves.

  08 June, 2013

• The EU Budget Deal: A Political Circus

  The EU budget deal has been struck. It was another high stakes high tension EU summit.

  12 February, 2013

• The Euro Crisis and the Absence of Politicians

  When the credit crunch kicked off it was a market problem.

  14 August, 2012