If something costs £4bn a year and appears to disproportionately benefit the well off, what do you think is likely to happen to it in today’s fiscal and political environment? I think we all know …
We need to talk about dividends, says Alan Livsey in the Financial Times today. He’s right; we do. As he points out, in a normal world, “dividends come out of a company’s cash flow once …
Our friend Russell Napier of ERIC has been telling us for years that we have to be creative when we think about just how far governments might go in their use of extreme monetary policy. …
It is in the long-term interest of companies like Google to pay their tax In the MoneyWeek editor’s letter this week I issued a call to arms. Subscribers can read the full letter here (please …
The Scottish government has said that it doesn’t intend to change income tax rates for the next tax year. That came as no surprise to most people: after all, doing what the UK does has …
There’s an awful lot of fuss around pensions at the moment. I’m not going to complain about that – we’ve been making a good part of that fuss. We are angry about the Lifetime Allowance …
We’ve been looking for signals that tell us that the UK housing market is getting a little out of control again. Last week gave us a new one (for this cycle at least): the return …
One of the maddening things about the state of corporate Britain has long been the pay packets of our fund managers. Daniel Godfrey and I spoke about this at length in our interview here. There …
If you earn over £150,000 from any source and are trying to build up a reasonable sized pension pot in a hurry, this April is going to irritate you. That’s because your annual tax-free savings …
Governments aren’t often good at very much. But when it comes to losing all sense of proportion in spending other people’s money they are generally utterly unbeatable. Clear winners. Look to Scotland’s Gaelic policy and …