Thanks in part to my special report on Benitec the BTEBY share is now showing a gain. The Down Under management is a bit overwhelmed by the trigger-happy US market but they are quick learners.

Realistically, a 5% tax rise should prompt a 5% spending cut, with the earning power lost to inflation adding more belt tightening. You can't squeeze blood from a stone. Workers have no money.

More follows from Singapore, China, and Hong Kong, and other places like Mexico, Britain, The Netherlands, S. Africa, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Brazil, and Finland.

Economists and businessmen agree with the French economist Thomas Piketty, that inequality today is close to that of the era of Robber Barons.

What is astonishing about the way banks cheated their clients by colluding to fix exchange rates to extract higher sums is not only that they did this to what they called “Numpty's”, but when they did this.

Russian tanks, planes, and troops are reportedly crossing the border with eastern Ukraine after the referendum there which violated the terms of the truce between Ukraine and Russia.