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Historian, Writer, Explorer, Reformer
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Presumably this gas based formula was set to encourage investment in renewables. The high marginal profits from renewables should repay the high initial capital investment quickly.
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I suspect that Oil & Gas prices will fall anyhow as the World builds out Renewable electric capacity and battery storage. However a massive Recession won't help!
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You can get good second hand editions of Encyclopedia Britanica on Ebay for reasonable prices. I bought the 1992 edition about 7 years ago for c.ÂŖ250.
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Surely "Hillock William" đ
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If Oil and Gas prices keep falling, fracking will be uneconomic. I suspect fracking will decline worldwide over the next five years.
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The USA has just blockaded itself đđđ
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Is this wise? 300 million US Citizens may start cross dressing to travel to Norway đ
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Beyond this point trade between the US and China becomes uneconomic for buyers and further rises don't matter đ¤
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He wanted chaos but not too much đ
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I suspect some people made a lot of money when Truss tanked the UK markets. Maybe Trump et al got ideas đ
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Rome tried to build an early modern state with professional public administration and standing army on the back of a mainly neolithic agricultural system. The miracle is that it lasted so long despite threadbare economic system.
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I hope Labour get thrashed nationwide by the LibDems in the Council Elections.
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I suspect that the US Gov would really like to introduce a Federal Value Added Tax on consumption but have opted for Tariffs as easier to sell to the US Public.
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Could Trump be the last President directly elected by US voters? Will future Presidents be appointed by Congress?
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He did take the precaution of selling a load of Tesla shares last year!
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Musk doesn't realise that the Tariffs are a geo-political Act of State not an economic one!
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I also admire how he is demolishing the Republican Oligarchs đđđ
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Perhaps Trump was making a very subtle joke - he is liberating Americans from the yoke of the Republican Oligarchs đ
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Sadly I suspect Trump has only precipated the controlled demolition of a vastly bloated overvalued stockmarket which would have reset after some other geopolitical event in any case. Real investment experts like Buffett have been anticipating this for some time.
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As Mao said "All Power comes from the barrel of a gun". The Autocrat and his cronies get control of the Military and Police and then control the Oligarchs. Thyssen, Krupp and Hugenberg found this out soon enough.
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Donny is a Democrat Trojan Horse totally destroying the Republican Party đđđ
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I suspect many Democrats are happy for Trump to be the 'Bad Cop'.
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It's a shame that Trade is such a boring backwater of a subject at the moment. Needs some exciting events.
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I suspect Paddy Power aren't taking bets on who will win this tournament đ
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It's almost like he's a secret Democrat deliberately destroying the Republican Party đ
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Next we need to introduce citizenship based direct taxation. Time to tax the expats in Dubai and Monaco.
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They obviously don't want the little guys getting out of the market ahead of the wealthy đ
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Perhaps they are a tool to destroy the Republican Party đ
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If the tariffs stop people buying tons of useless shit and filling up their attics and garages with it, they may not be that bad after all đ
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Trump is proving to be the most brilliant Democrat Trojan Horse. He is absolutely destroying the Republican Party đđđ
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Those damn penguins are sneeky though đ
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Could divesting ETFs aggrevate a declining market as small investors and try to cash in their gains and rush for the exit?
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My error! Misremembered something I read.
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Big differences to the 1930's are the presence of big trading blocs like the EU and Mercosur and absence of the gold standard.
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I understand it is a duty free island for the benefit of tourists
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I suspect it's likely a man who has so many visible and rumoured health issues will be challenged to survive until the next election.
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The Irish are not 'foreigners' under English Law.
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Adrian Carton de Wiart
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Starmer will need to show some backbone if he wants to maintain any credibility with voters.
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Musk's great achievement was to realise how much could be grifted from America's middle class by selling tech vapourware.
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All Smoke and Mirrors đ
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Time to introduce Citizenship based direct taxation and catch all the UK oligarchs who have absconded to Dubai đ
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Is Hegseth related to Union spy Robert E Lee?
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The EU and UK will provide the security and USA will take the loot đ¤
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The cheapskates didn't even offer any money to people to volunteer đ
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Sounds like a plan for next winter đ
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So the EU and UK will incur the cost and risks of protecting Ukraine while the USA loots it. Sounds like a great deal âšī¸