Just why is Gordon Brown still in office? Why? I remember all the “Vote Blair, Get Brown” talk from Labour supporters in the run up to the last election. Well, we’ve got him now. Had him for over a year. And it’s a long time since I heard anyone say “Tell you what — I’m a big Gordon Brown man, me.”

How not to solve the financial crisis. The past really is sweeping back to haunt Gordon Brown. If you wrote the film script of his career, no one would believe it – it’s far too loaded with poetic justice to be true.

The outlook for the US economy isn’t pretty.

As we reported earlier this morning, economists surveyed by Bloomberg estimate US growth will slow to 0.5 percent from October to December.

The US economy is not yet officially a recession. But most commentators are treating it as such, including Lord William Rees-Mogg, former editor of The Times and regular contributor to The Daily Reckoning UK. Lord Rees-Mogg says there won’t be a recovery until the first half of 2009…

Gordon Brown wants you to waste less food, but government policies are wasting more food than you ever could…and there’s a way you could to profit from the madness…

I’m not superstitious. But I choose to take the following as a sign…Just as I sat down to write this, the phone on my desk rang.

It was the biggest one-day fall since the collapse of Bear Stearns in March. Yesterday the FTSE 100 tumbled 2.6%. It’s hardly surprising. There was a lot of bad news flying about.