Tag: economy
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Letter from Lincoln…July 2026
Entirely predictably – and not just by me in my last column – the ceasefire between the US and Iran has broken down, with both sides initiating strikes in the Middle East. This has left more ships stranded on the wrong side of the Strait of Hormuz while the oil prices head north again.
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Letter from Lincoln…June 2026
Yay, at last the US and Iran have signed a memorandum of understanding and the ships that were stranded in the Gulf have started to make their way out, past the Strait of Hormuz including those Iranian ships that were caught in the US blockade.
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Letter from Lincoln…May 2026
The American President Donald Trump has continued to hold the world hostage to his own ego as he seeks a face saving way out of his monumental mistake in attacking Iran. He continues to insist it’s the only way to stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapons though the imperfect Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that Obama…
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Letter from Lincoln…March 2026
No surprises to find that this month’s Letter from Lincoln is all about the economics of war, spreading out like an oil slick to pollute every other corner of the globe.
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…February 2026
Money may well make the world go around but what happens if you don’t have any money, or you fear that tax rises and inflation will wipe out whatever surplus you do have? This is the question that many British people have been asking themselves for several months now.
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…May 2025
May has been another month of mayhem, mostly courtesy of one Donald J Trump but backed up with a supporting cast that includes Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu and various other actors searching for a role. The fact that most of these crackpots won power through elections – to varying degrees – suggests that civil governance…
Nessan Cleary 