Pinchas Landau, at The Blogs

May 8, 2018, 6:53 PM

The wars of the rosettes: The battle of Barnet

The Battle of Barnet was a decisive engagement in the Wars of the Roses, a dynastic conflict of 15th-century England… On 14 April 1471, near Barnet, then a small Hertfordshire town north of London, Edward led the House of York in a fight against the House of Lancaster, which backed Henry VI for the throne… Historians regard...

Apr 20, 2018, 11:41 AM

Corblimey Corbyn

Avi Gabbai has bravely shown the way, but Corbyn is only a part of a much larger problem. The Israeli Establishment is in deliberate, willful denial over the imminent rise to power of the Hard Left in the UK. Americans and other foreigners may be...

Mar 25, 2018, 7:30 PM

Yes, the looming global market crash affects you

Dow Jones Industrial Average INDEXDJX: .DJI as of Mar 23, 2018, 16:47 GMT-4 (screenshot from Google Finance)

The global stock market dive that began in January and picked up steam this month is a major development — both because of its causes and its consequences. Nobody knows why it happens, but the historical evidence is clearcut: in almost every major stock-exchange crash,...

Mar 19, 2018, 12:31 PM

The fault in Bibi’s perfect budget

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon attend the Knesset vote on the 2017-18 state budget. on December 21, 2016. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The government budget for Fiscal Year 2019 was passed by the Knesset last Wednesday, nine and a half months ahead of its end-December deadline. Everyone in the coalition got more money. Everyone voted in favor. The budget and its ancillary, The Arrangements Law, sailed through...

Jan 31, 2018, 2:53 AM

The icebreaker cometh

In light of the obsessive focus on the person of Donald Trump and anything even tangentially linked to him, it is easy to conclude that the entire American nation has lost its mind — and is dragging much of the rest of the world with...

Dec 1, 2017, 1:47 PM

Things that go HEMP in the night

The Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile, at an undisclosed location in North Korea, November 29, 2017. (Image provided by the North Korean government, Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea is fine-tuning its strike capability, and, with it, raises the global existential threat

Jul 17, 2017, 2:20 PM

De-nial is a river in London

Israel is not paying attention to the new political instability of the UK or its unpleasant implications for the Jews

May 18, 2017, 4:22 PM

Yes, Trump is toast, but he’s not the problem

US President Donald Trump attends the US Coast Guard Academy commencement ceremony in New London, Connecticut, on May 17, 2017. (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)

With or without its current president, US society, economy and global standing will continue to slowly implode

Mar 6, 2017, 12:27 AM

The news as Circus Maximus

If it’s getting big play in the mainstream media (MSM), it’s probably not important. If it’s genuinely important, it’s probably not getting big play in the MSM. That is the guiding principle I have learned to use as a yardstick for measuring what I see,...

Feb 19, 2017, 4:07 PM

The struggle for mastery in Europe

Supporters of the German right-wing movement PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident) hold up a poster reading "Give No Chance to Islam" as they attend a PEGIDA rally on June 1, 2015 in Dresden, eastern Germany (Jens Schlueter/AFP)

A series of elections across the continent will unleash violent clashes over the Muslim immigration wave

About Me

Pinchas Landau is an economic and financial analyst, serving as a consultant to major financial institutions in Israel and abroad on domestic and global developments.