Trading

  • Westminster Week: Getting the job done

    Monday

    It’s the day of the Government’s Immigration White Paper, a long-awaited if not over-hyped event for the failure to do it before. Yvette Cooper MP (Pontefract, Castleford, and Knottingley/Labour), our Home Secretary, is confident with her notes but there’s a feeling in the House it needs to go further.

    Jo White MP (Bassetlaw/Labour) is eager to “stop the reliance on imported workers from abroad”, although how it’s done to completion is not clear. It’s for Max Wilkinson MP (Cheltenham/Liberal Democrat) to say it’s not a time to bring up “divisive cultural issues”, such as the Prime Minister’s “island of strangers” quip.

    As the Border Security, Asylum, and Immigration Bill continues its way through Parliament, before Royal Assent, Jeremy Corbyn MP (Islington North/Independent) is a reliable witness to human rights.

    A Home Office Minister, Angela Eagle MP (Wallasey/Labour), supports his assertion, saying cases should be seen by “merit”, not calling people terrorists, or assuming the claim is fake.

    Wednesday

    The Prime Minister is keen to burnish his credentials as a new force in UK trade. Meanwhile, the official opposition brush it off, saying his recent tariff deal with the US is “tiny”.

  • Trump bets big on boss politik

    Yesterday, President Trump revealed new tariff’s for America’s trading partners. It’s an effort to match – at a discount – high rates on American goods around the world.

    Two boards of new tariff’s

    Trump feels his country is shortchanged, in spite of its booming innovation industries, because it lacks material clout. This changes the stakes worldwide.

  • Disaster is a new sort of crisis

    It looks likely that unexpected events will become more and more of a risk in the near future. The types of events of late, such as meltdowns, accidents, and incidents, are such we don’t expect.

    The financial system is extremely diverse. It means the involvement of new entities is increasing at a pace. The complexity it results in may be a source of such errors we cannot anticipate in future.