Prime London property will hold its value I was asked at the FT Weekend Live festival last week what I thought was going to happen to London house prices. I said what I usually say …
Hungary: refugees not welcome Over the last few years MoneyWeek readers have had the enormous privilege of hearing from Bernard Connolly, author of The Rotten Heart of Europe, several times. You can watch my video …
A camper van might be fun, but can it really return the equivalent of over 4% a year? One of the things modern monetary policy wants us to do is to spend more of our money …
Brexit and Trumpism: the causes are the same At the Beyond Borders festival at Traquair House last week, a panel of Americans discussing Trumpism agreed between them that America has “lost its soul”. What other …
Ros Altmann: sees the problem Finally, finally – one of our main bugbears is being picked up properly by the rest of the press. We have been raging here for several years about the way …
There are far too many bad charities We’ve written several times before about our worries about the charitable sector. We don’t like the way gift aid allows people to hypothecate their taxes. We aren’t sure …
We’ve been telling you for ages that the UK’s insane monetary policy is killing the economy. Some proof arrives this morning in the form of a trading update from Carclo. Carclo is a global supplier …
Tax collection: around the world governments are having a go at doing more and getting more. There’s FATCA; there’s the CRS; there’s the recent judgment on Apple’s arrangements – see the magazine for more on …
I was beginning to think a real summer silly season would never come. But just in the nick of time a press release arrives from Legal & General. A few months ago it released research …
In one of my very first editor’s letters for MoneyWeek, I wrote that it made complete sense for anyone with spare cash to forget about pensions and get a buy-to-let flat instead. At the time, …