On the MoneyWeek cruise last week there was much talk about sustainability – about pollution, about climate change, about energy usage and waste and generally about the ability of the earth to keep giving and …
I wrote last week about ownership of listed companies with reference to the VW emissions fraud. John Kay is excellent on the subject, and I particularly like a column he wrote on the matter 20 years …
Every year, 36% of adults receive more in benefits than they pay in taxes. That sounds awful. And it is. But it isn’t the whole picture. In a very interesting report out last week the …
Hedge funds run by women do better than those run by men. That’s a dead cert. Or so says Stephen Foley in the FT. Those that women own or run have “beaten the industry average …
I interviewed Matt Ridley on his new book, The Evolution of Everything, this morning. We talked around all sorts of things – the video and the podcast will be out in a few days for …
“Brummie bounce brings a bonanza” That was one of the headlines in the Sunday Times this week. I wrote here a few months ago about the economic renaissance in Birmingham. New Street Station has just …
One more thing for buy-to-let investors to worry about – arrears. The House & Home section of the FT ran a story this weekend noting that it is “about to get harder” to get tenants …
Queen Street in Edinburgh is sometimes referred to as Quango Street. Why? Walk down it and every second sign tells you that the building is inhabited by either a charity or a group of supposedly …
“The eco-gloomsters who warned of a Malthusian disaster were wrong. A global food glut is more likely than famine.” So said Matt Ridley in the Times earlier this week. His argument was simple: technology allows …
I’ll write more on China later this week – and it is worth everyone watching my latest video interview with Paul Hodges (subscribers will be able to read the key points in the magazine this …