Craig Plater
I am currently studying physics at Surrey university in England and in my spare time I read on economics and finance.
I like to write articles on things that affect ordinary people and this is why I tend to centre my writing around finance and science the two things that have developed the world to how it is today.
I like to write articles on things that affect ordinary people and this is why I tend to centre my writing around finance and science the two things that have developed the world to how it is today.
Articles by Craig Plater
October 05, 2009
With the large public deficit, dollar hegemony fading, saving at an all time low, vast dollar reserves held by China and a economic stagnation which due to lack of credit seems unlikely to go away any time soon.
Will governments such as that of the USA be tempted to inflate their way into another bubble?
October 27, 2008
As the stock markets of Europe plummet to new lows and the Yen rises dramatically against most currencies what are the underlying causes and how does it effect the global economy as a whole?
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June 25, 2008
Google trends is a great new tool for catching the latest trends, how does it work and what is it good for?
June 23, 2008
Could the current recession which the world appears to be on an inevitable spiral into be as bad as the great depression? I explain why I think not.
June 14, 2008
Ireland today made Europe tremble as its population gave a resounding no vote to the new Lisbon treaty, which happened to be almost identical to the old EU constitution which both the French and Danish population voted against in referendum. Despite this their governments without even a second referendum have accepted the new "treaty" defying the will of the people they should serve.
June 12, 2008
Good news today as retail sales growth figures were released today showing a rate of 1% month on month, 0.5% higher than predicted by Bloomberg and many others, this suggests that either consumers have not yet felt the full impact of rising prices and other economic problems or that the financial cr...
June 08, 2008
With oil prices on the rise and the housing market still falling how will this continue to effect equities and how much longer will the credit crunch last?
April 09, 2008
Just yesterday I wrote an article about how peak oil may be driving up the price of oil as supply dwindles, today futures jumped from $108 to $112 a barrel for crude oil due to lower than expected crude oil inventories in the US. While this may be being caused by peak oil being passed it is also imp...
April 08, 2008
Peak oil, the point at which oil production reaches its maximum and begins to decline may have passed as oil continues to rise in price.
The theory was first used by M. King Hubbert a geoscientist who worked for Shell, he found that oil production on any scale would follow a bell shaped curve ini...
April 06, 2008
Since the dawn of time mankind has developed new and more efficient ways to communicate, from the spoken word to written forms of communication and then onto entire mail systems and phone lines. Then came the invention of the Internet linking all these systems into a digital network of information t...
April 06, 2008
New data suggests that American oil consumption has seen the largest drop in one quarter since 2001 which was due to the September the 11th attacks, with a drop of 475,000 barrels. Most experts agree that this will not reduce the price of oil (currently at about $106 a barrel) due to the increasing...
April 04, 2008
Today the dollar fell against many major currencies after a disappointing labour report showing a change in the number of jobs of -80,000 rather than the -50,000 expected by analysts. This adds to already large suspicion that a recession is already upon the USA and that things may get worse before t...
April 04, 2008
The IFPI, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is demanding $2.56 million US dollars from "The Pirate Bay" the self proclaimed worlds largest bittorent tracker.
Bittorrent is a technology that allows the sharing of any file across the Internet by splitting it into small pie...
April 02, 2008
As the economic crisis in the USA continues to take its toll on the dollar and the availability of credit to both banks and buyers of real estate so the same is happening across the ocean in Europe and the united kingdom. On April 1st UBS one of the largest Swiss banks and Deutsche bank revealed a t...