WSJ: Is It Better to Select a CEO Who Is an Outsider or an Insider?

By SIMON CONSTABLE

New research says the answer might be somebody who is a little bit of both, and that’s especially true during turbulent times. Read more here.

#France: Balmy with moderating commodity and food prices: Reconsidering Davos. @RealConstable @BatchelorShow Occitanie for the third winter of war,

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

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Davos circa 1900

Johannes Meiner , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Korn Ferry: Work From Home, Be Laid Off Less?

By SIMON CONSTABLE

A surprising survey finds that only 16% of UK firms with remote staff had layoffs last year. Why? Read more here.

Fox News: Klaus Schwab's World Economic Forum in Davos exposed as place where 'cronyism can flourish'

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

A turning point came in 2021 amid COVID-19, when the idea of 'the Great Reset' took off. Read more here.

World Economic Forum, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

#France: The inflation monster looms in the UK; the Post Office Scandal & What is to be done? @BatchelorShow @RealConstable, Occitanie

By SIMON CONSTABLE

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John and I discuss the outrageous Royal Mail scandal, which resulted in hundreds of post-sub-masters being accused of fraud when, in reality, a computer glitch got the accounts wrong.

We also explain the inflation beast story I recently wrote for Briefings magazine here.

Gendarmes d’Ordonnance. 

Édouard Detaille , CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

CC: It’s Getting Worse: Iran Makes War on Pakistan and Iraq

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Iranian-born British citizen and political activist Vahid Beheshti joins us from London outside the Foreign Office. He explains the latest on the conflict in the Middle East, notably the two attacks on Pakistan and Iraq, and what that means for the region. We also discuss the urgent need for the United Kingdom to remove all its diplomatic corps from Iran or risk them being taken hostage by Iran’s theocracy. And we have a lot more, too.

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Photo credit: Cropped version of a photo from Mydust, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Photo description: Pakistani Army Position, 1965 War

The intro is a shortened version of a clip by Richard Wagner, EEF OAL-1, licensed via Wikimedia Commons, performed by:

Conductor: James Allen Gähres

Ensemble: Ulm Philharmonic

Location: CCU Einsteinsaal, Ulm

Opera: The Valkyrie (Die Walküre)

Movement: Prelude from Act 3

Date 3 June 2014

The thunderclap outro is a shortened version of a clip by Jonathan Hunt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Briefings Magazine: Taming the Inflation Beast

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Inflation today isn’t the same as that of the 1970s. Read more here.

CC: How Much Has California Overspent? It's a mystery @JCBliss @RealConstable

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

California’s government can’t agree on how much it has overspent: $68 billion, $38 billion, or $100 billion. What’s the difference? It's only money. On top of that, the California Democrats want to introduce a wealth tax. What could possibly go wrong? We have that and more. Joining us from Orange County, California, is Jeff Bliss, a senior correspondent at California Flow Magazine, a regular contributor on John Batchelor's CBS radio show Eye on the World, and heard on many other radio stations across California.

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Photo credit: FOTO:FORTEPAN / Angyalföldi Helytörténeti Gyűjtemény, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Photo description: Airplane, Soviet brand, second World War, transport, fair, fighter plane, wreck, Budapest

The intro is a shortened version of a clip by Richard Wagner, EEF OAL-1, licensed via Wikimedia Commons, performed by:

Conductor: James Allen Gähres

Ensemble: Ulm Philharmonic

Location: CCU Einsteinsaal, Ulm

Opera: The Valkyrie (Die Walküre)

Movement: Prelude from Act 3

Date 3 June 2014

The thunderclap outro is a shortened version of a clip by Jonathan Hunt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Korn Ferry: In the UK: Belt-Tightening in 2024

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Stretched budgets will likely make way for operational agility and internal promotions. Read more here.

#Eurozone: Celebrating 25 years of the Euro's success. @RealConstable @BatchelorShow @WSJ

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

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Wrecked plane in Nuremberg, Germany, 1946

National Archives at College Park, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

WSJ: Financial Flashback -- The euro is born January 1999.

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Published exclusively in the print edition of the Wall Street Journal

WSJ: Why the Strength of the Dollar Matters So Much for Stock Investors

By SIMON CONSTABLE 

As U.S. companies earn more from overseas, the greenback’s performance has an outsize impact on quarterly results—and often the stock market’s direction. Read more here.

Marcin Bond, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

CC: 2024's Biggest Risks to Us: The U.S. Election and the Ukraine-Russia War

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Photo Courtesy of Robin Horsfall

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Former paratrooper and SAS soldier Robin Horsfall makes his debut on Constable Confidential. Among other gallantry, he was one of the team that rescued hostages from the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980.

For the last two years, Horsfall has chronicled the Russia-Ukraine war and recently published a book on the conflict titled "Slava Ukraine Who Dares Shares."

In this show, he puts forward the case that the Western powers must continue to support Ukraine and ensure that Russia doesn't win. Failure to do so would likely be awful. We also discuss the risks of one particular candidate winning the U.S. presidency later this year. Plus, he names some favorite authors and proffers advice for aspiring writers.

Contact Horsfall via https://robinhorsfall.co.uk.

Signed Horsfall books available via www.robinhorsfall.com

Unsigned Slava Ukraine, Who Dares Shares available from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk

Picture credit: Horsfall

Photo description: Robin Horsfall

The intro is a shortened version of a clip by Richard Wagner, EEF OAL-1, licensed via Wikimedia Commons, performed by:

Conductor: James Allen Gähres

Ensemble: Ulm Philharmonic

Location: CCU Einsteinsaal, Ulm

Opera: The Valkyrie (Die Walküre)

Movement: Prelude from Act 3

Date 3 June 2014

The thunderclap outro is a shortened version of a clip by Jonathan Hunt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#REDSEA: Oil prices much unmoved by Houthi attacks. @RealConstable John Batchelor @Forbes

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

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The guided-missile destroyer USS Nitze (DDG 94) launches a strike against three coastal radar sites in Houthi-controlled territory on Yemen’s Red Sea coast circa October 2016 

Official U.S. Navy Page from United States of America U.S. Navy photo/U.S. Navy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. 

CC: Is Scotland on an Economic Train Ride to Socialism?

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Alan Quinn, a long-standing Glasgow-based entrepreneur, weighs in on Scotland's ruling Scottish National Party and the economic policies they are pursuing. Specifically, he targets the lack of private sector experience by leading SNP figures and the idiocy of rent control, plus much more.

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Photo credit: Gus Pasquarella, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Photo description: photo taken during the initial explosion of the Hindenburg