Politics and Corporate Greed are close bedfellows. This week’s market will be driven by the US inflation number and what it means for rate cut timing, but the costs of inflation fall hardest upon the poor. Political populism is driven by inequality and corporate greed, and underlies market instability.

The unaffordability of housing and rents is a warning the West is heading for a Crisis of Inequality. While the rich get richer on booming markets, workers increasingly struggle with debt, taxes and accommodation – something has to give.  

Phillips Curve economics calls for higher unemployment to calm inflation. Great plan says The Bank and Chancellor while consigning millions of UK citizens to penury. We need something better than wrecking lives and the economy.

Markets are thriving, but the news tone is miserable.. how does that happen? Markets aren’t pricing in a rising tide of political friction, plus rising inequality of wealth and opportunity – but these things ultimately matter.