Brexit

21st Century Wire says…
We heard about the big petition, but who is the author?
This is interesting…

Mike Robinson
UK Column

(ZHE) For all the scaremongering and threats of an imminent financial apocalypse should Brexit win, including dire forecasts from the likes of George Soros, the Bank of England,

21st Century Wire says…

Exclusive: The European Union’s haughty and hasty expansion into low-wage Eastern Europe may be its undoing, as the Brexit vote shows popular resistance to the westward migration of workers that followed, writes Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall While few analysts…Read more →

21st Century Wire says…
A review of all the Top Stories from this week – for your consideration.

The Fuddy Duddies Have It - Cameron Resigns Following BREXIT Vote

21st Century Wire says…
How supportive with Nigel Farage be now the shoe is on the other foot?
The UK voted to leave the EU by 52% to 48% in Thursday’s referendum but the majority of voters in London, Scotland and Northern Ireland backed Remain.
Now, a petition has been launched that is calling for a second referendum stating:

RT | June 24, 2016 It looks increasingly possible that Brexit will lead to the demise of the United Kingdom. That may be for the best, as it’s abundantly clear that the four members now have markedly different concerns. Do you remember where you were on May 1, 2004? I do. I was in Dublin […]

“This superb pre-vote think piece by asset allocator Charles Gave shows that although markets are struggling to absorb the result, there are clear long-term benefits. Gave is a 40 year money managing veteran and the co-founder of a $10bn asset management business sold into Alliance Capital in 1995. He left the company four years later to return to his first love – researching tactical asset allocation for Gavekal which he chairs.”

Ryan McMaken
Von Misus Institute
That didn’t take long. Only hours after the final results came in for a British exit from the EU, political leaders in Scotland are talking about renewing their drive to secede from the United Kingdom.

Here are some of my thoughts on the successful Brexit vote, shared on the Facebook page for Exposing Faux Capitalism: Corporate mass media hypocrisy: When democratic referendums are in favour of being part of some bigger political union, they want to move on after saying how great the outcome was, yet, in the rare case […]