I started blogging some time ago, due to growing concerns about the world economy, and the UK economy in particular. My blog is informed by diverse experience working throughout the world. One of the major influences has been the time spent living and working in China, and the experience of exporting from China to the rest of Asia. I approach economic theory with considerable cynicism, and therefore 'pick and mix' from different schools of thought according to whether they seem to correspond to reality. I remain anonymous as I value my privacy, and my motive in writing on economics is simply to put an alternative view 'out there'.