Even though the vote for leaving the EU was advisory in this case parliament voted with the result so it is now legally binding. This was forced by a legal case taken up by Gina Miller she made the decision legally binding by forcing the decision to ...

MPs drawing up plans to request an 11th-hour Brexit extension from the EU -Times article

unfortunately referendums in the UK are advisory they can be ignored by law as parliament is sovereign something people seem to forget. The problem is if you go against a referendum it is deemed undemocratic. This means any referendum is not the ...

MPs drawing up plans to request an 11th-hour Brexit extension from the EU -Times article

If they remain in the Euro they'll need a Bundesbank bailout package like Greece sometime soon which will be an austerity requirement in the mix

Italy not thinking about leaving euro: Salvini

the Brexit plague is about to sweep and infect the whole of Europe this is going to be grim

Three of Europe's biggest economies are probably in recession -- and the ECB is out of bullets

He has to tweet about trade deals with China and keeping the pressure on the Fed to lower rates to keep the financial markets on their toes his stock market must go higher

Trump says going 'very well with China,' not ready to make deal

what do you expect when Trump breaks WTO rules unilaterally by applying tariffs it leaves China with little choice but to devalue

China fires biggest warning shot yet in trade war and now it's up to Trump to decide how far...

well if they want to stabilise the markets confiscate Trump's mobile phone (cellphone)

U.S. Fed's Brainard, George monitoring stock market rout

Trump playing chicken with the Fed to force their hand he didn't need to Tweet about more tariffs on Chinese goods he was told by his own trade negotiators not to do it. He did it the global markets crashed and the Fed won't budge, China won't ...

"On A Scale Of 1-10, It's An 11" - Wall Street Reacts To China's Retaliation

China will win this Trump will have to U-turn he'll have little choice he answers to the American people where he needs to get re-elected. China is turning the screw on his supporters

China: Asked State Buyers To Stop Agricultural Imports From The US

They made the right decision by dissenting we have an asset bubble cutting rates would fuel the bubble then create a crash where the tool set to contain would be limited. The cut made was political the Fed chair is in fear of Trump which means the ...

Fed Rate-Cut Dissenters Cite Strong Employment, Financial Risks

China will win this war they've got plenty of time plus they don't answer to the 'people' whereas Trump has to get a result to get re-elected in 2020 preferably without crashing the S&P at the time of the vote, that would be embarrassing. Get ready ...

Trump is "open to delaying or halting the 10% tariff on 9/1" if China were to take action...

Let's see Trump's twitter response to this then will he give China the finger? Will be interesting

China MOFCOM: China Vows To Retaliate If US Tariff Hike Takes Effect

if Trump wants to get re-elected forget ramping up the stock market now because the Fed know if they slash rates at the top of a stock market bubble it'll eventually run out of steam and crash without any tools left to bounce it back. The Fed need ...

The U.S. will put additional Tariff of 10% on $300B of goods from China

Trump just wants to compete with Boris Johnson on being craziest leader competition

The U.S. will put additional Tariff of 10% on $300B of goods from China

why not raise them to 100% that'll get Powell to kick off QE? Then sack the Fed chair because he won't do as he is told. The Fed were asked why did they cut .25% they said they didn't know why because the economy is strong what they really meant to ...

Trump says new 10% tariff can be raised beyond 25%

slashing rates at all time record highs in stocks to please Trump it's about as insane as you can get I don't think anybody has seen anything like this before.

Fed to cut rates for first time since 2008 to save the long-running economic expansion

A weak GBP would have been fine when 35% of our GDP was manufacturing which is where we were before joining the EU it currently stands at 10% of our GDP. It's a disaster for UK not only that it'll be a disaster for Europe because 50% of our trade is ...

GBP: The sterling meltdown

he cannot have an over priced stock market and a weak USD unless of course he wants to engineer a crash

Trump convened Cabinet-level meeting yesterday to discuss ideas to weaken dollar

stockmarket will crash if they do this, firstly it'll go up expontially then it'll collapse at that point central banks have very little left to recover the situation it'll be a total flush

Fed Needs a Half Point Cut Now, and More Soon

Personally I'm dumping every stock I own into cash except gold and silver stocks because there is something seriously wrong when stockmarkets are smashing all time record highs daily and the Fed are considering ZIRP with some officials considering ...

The Fed has three options. Here’s the difference between them, and why anything could happen