governments Archives - Philip J Milton & Company Plc https://www.miltonpj.net/tag/governments/ North Devon's Leading Wealth Managers Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:53:42 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.miltonpj.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/PJMCO-Site-Image-4-100x100.png governments Archives - Philip J Milton & Company Plc https://www.miltonpj.net/tag/governments/ 32 32 Chancellor tears but not for us https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/07/11/chancellor-tears-but-not-for-us/ Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:53:37 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11899 So, very unconvincingly the Prime Minister supporting the Chancellor’s dire financial announcements brought the wrong sort of tears to her eyes, promptly seeing the cost of long-term UK Government debt rise by a whopping 5% and Sterling losing a cent instantly. Fortunately that was short-lived but we’re still paying far more than at the worst […]

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]]> Crisis, what crisis? All good here! https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/05/24/crisis-what-crisis-we-are-doing-well/ Sat, 24 May 2025 13:13:53 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11832 Before anything else, have a really lovely Bank Holiday weekend. I shall be helping at Braunton Fair on Monday and catching-up tomorrow… Crisis? What crisis? Could be the question our investors pose about the recent Trumpian-created volatility as we seemed to sail-through unscathed and emerging from the other side seemingly in better shape than when […]

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]]> Growth, debt and the Titanic… https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/04/30/are-trump-tariffs-akin-to-titanic-moment/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:08:05 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11803 I was reminded recently that on 14 April it was the anniversary of the Titanic hitting the iceberg, in 1912. Had it hit it head-on, it would not have sunk. Are there analogies here for President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements…? This is either the fact that 90% of the problem isn’t obvious or maybe that […]

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]]> This too shall pass – market volatility is no need to panic https://www.miltonpj.net/2024/08/05/markets-volatile-but-no-need-to-panic/ Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:59:19 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11320 For no ‘real’ reason, markets have decided it’s time for the coin to flip from ‘all news is positive’ to ‘all news is negative’ and within a matter of days sentiment has changed dramatically. I suppose we should have been expecting it, after such a positive run and after all we have said about overblown […]

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