MORNING SHOW – 27/05/22

With the UK government’s announcement of the introduction of the Clean Energy Cash Back system, essentially a feed-in tariff designed to attract investment in the British renewable industry, controversy has raged with solar industry insiders believing tariff rates to be too low. It therefore comes as no surprise that the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has also announced that they believe the tariff rate which has been set (5p/unit with a subsidy of 36.

In the latest Beige Book report today, it believed that the US economy is growing, but at a decelerating pace. The Beige Book is a report on the US economy compiled eight times a year by the US Fed and is based on information from companies in the 12 Fed districts.

It’s time to pay attention to things like the economy, politics, and the way things are going in the world. If you’re like me (and I know I am:), these may be things you haven’t spent much time or energy on… and, frankly, don’t like to think about. But there are major economic storm clouds gathering, and if you educate yourself now about how to deal with the coming storm, you could be one of the few who come out okay – or even way better than okay.

During the second term of President Clinton a primary talking point by him along with his Republican legislative enablers was to highlight the lockbox. This was the vessel to be used by our government to deposit the Social Security surplus.

The story told in a New York Times article, West Is in Talks on Credit to Aid Poorer Nations, is finally getting to the core of how widespread the damage may be from the current crisis in world financial markets.  What was once thought to be an American problem, with Europeans claiming they weren’t vulnerable to the errant decisions of Wall Street, is now revealing itself to be something of a monetary virus.