Published on 29 January 2021
This is the paper in which I explored the misuse by the EU of Article 122 in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union in order, in this case, to bypass the normal budget process and set up the coronavirus recovery fund, euphemistically re-named as Next Generation EU.
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1st December 2020
From the fiction shelves of any Italian public library…
Jean-Pierre Mustier – the CEO who has restored Faith in Unicredit – is leaving: a bombshell. This demonstrates the desperation of the Italian political and financial establishment to get Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) packed away safely to a domestic institution, and to pacify […]
Published on 10 November 2020
We visited the Bundesbank in December 2019 to discuss the large imbalances in TARGET2, and to discover how these imbalances were derived from the 600 original account balances.
These are the balances on the 600 nostro and vostro accounts held between the 24 TARGET2-participating National Central Banks and the ECB itself.
We were […]
Published on 9th November 2020, and on the same day by accountingcpd.net.
On 20th October the European Central Bank’s main
Euro payments system went down for 8 hours – so lucky it was a Friday.
TARGET2 was down from 14:40 CET until 22:30 CET, supposedly
because of the failure of a network device, and both the hot and warm […]
Published on 31 October 2020
You can download our paper “Why SNP want to keep the pound” from January 2014 by clicking this link.
Published on 31 October 2020
You can download our paper “The Smith Commission – buying the Great SNP Bluff” from February 2015 by clicking on this link.
Published on 7 October 2020
Regrettably my involvement with AUKPI as chair of its Executive Committee has come to a premature end. AUKPI – both the trade association and the company that the association is based on – are having to be wound up. This was decided upon in the week of 21st September when it […]
My article top left on Daily Telegraph homepage
Published on 17 September 2020
For those of you who cannot get behind the Daily Telegraph paywall, here is the full text of my article that was given such prominence on 16th September 2020…
There is enormous gnashing of teeth
and rending of garments over the government’s Brexit fallback bill and […]
Published on 3 September 2020
I have posted this up here now as I have used this as a reference in my MA essay on industrialisation for the Open University ‘Local History’ course.
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