Thinking of selling up to avoid the changes to the buy-to-let tax relief rules? You aren’t alone. Now that people are starting to do the maths on the shift, and it has become clear that …
Working steel is a skilled job – but is it one worth saving? On Question Time last week, one of the main topics under discussion was the steel industry. Why, one of the audience asked, …
We’ve often written about just how much changing tax regimes changes markets. And thanks to the utter inability of our government to ever let anything be, at the moment we have rather too many examples …
In my editor’s letter this week, I wrote about the huge rise in the tax burden on the rich over the last decade. They’ve seen the top income tax rate move to 47%. They’ve lost …
The government has had it with the gender pay gap. It isn’t disappearing in the way they instructed it to do. So, our MPs are busying themselves coming up with more and more nutty ways …
Russia has acquired a sudden taste for gold Yesterday, a fund manager friend sent me a chart containing a conundrum. It has two lines. One shows the gold price over the last two years, and …
In my interview with author Peter Frankopan on the Silk Roads this week (see the upcoming issue of the magazine for the write up – the video will be up here soon), we talked about …
Spend a few days worrying sheep at one of Britain’s designer farms On the MoneyWeek cruise last week I treated our lucky readers to a brief (well, briefish) talk on the causes of the French …
Geoffrey Howe: left the eocnomy in much better shape than he found it I interviewed David Smith, economics editor of the Sunday Times last week. I have written up the best bits of our talk …
Credit cards are pretty evil things. I think we all know that. But a quick read of Robert Shiller and George Akelof’s new book, Phishing for Phools, gives a glimpse into just how much ill …