It’s been an extremeley busy week in politics. I’m going to admit to having found last week a bit confusing – an awful lot of new names, and an awful lot of things going on. …
British politics: not chaos, but real democracy in action
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Brexit: what it means for Finsbury Growth & Income
LSE should see significant upside if politics allow its merger with Deutsche Börse to proceed A large number of MoneyWeek readers hold the Finsbury Growth & Income Trust run by Nick Train (it is in …
The country voted for Brexit – but will the government deliver it?
Will the government actually deliver Brexit? I wrote a few weeks before the referendum that voting for Brexit was not a sure fire way to get Brexit. No one took that particularly seriously. And even …
Scotland wants it all – it isn’t going to get it
Scotland can’t be part of both unions if the UK is out of the EU There is much talk in Scotland about how the SNP administration will deal with the result of the EU referendum …
Markets: horribly volatile but (so far) definitely not collapsing
We’ve not seen a Lehman moment yet… Last week the former Finnish prime minister announced that if the UK left the EU we would face a Lehman moment – a major financial crisis of the …
Remember: the EU referendum isn’t an MPs’ popularity contest
The EU referendum isn’t about who you want to be prime minister There have been so many strange arguments rolling around this referendum that is has been hard to keep up. But the one that …
Brexit – a financial non-event
Germany may well have the most to lose from Brexit What would the global effect of Brexit be? Entirely uninteresting it seems. In her column in the Washington Post yesterday, Catherine Rampell asked Moody’s Analytics …
Who has most to gain from the rise of the robots?
Women and the elderly have the most to gain from robotics We are often asked about the best ways to invest in the rise of the robots (you can read past articles on the matter …
The options for Britain if we vote for Brexit
If we leave the EU, there are several paths we could follow What’s the right model for a post Brexit UK to follow? If we do vote out this will be discussed for several years …
Executive plunder and the fatcat fund managers that promote it
I think I am a little in love with Steve Silbertstein. The FT describes him as a “millionaire philanthropist”. And that, he surely is. But the key thing he is currently doing is not the …