We are increasingly convinced that monetary stimulus is verging on pointless in the West. There is no point in shovelling money at people who shouldn’t be borrowing, while scaring the living daylights out of everyone …
I went on Radio 4’s Broadcasting House on Sunday morning with Ann Pettifor to talk about the Greek election. The idea was to talk about whether it really mattered who won (you can listen to …
A quick point to make on buy-to-let. There is a chance that George Osborne will relent and reinstate the tax relief on mortgage interest payments on investment properties. I suspect he won’t – see my …
Could we soon see an end to the great buy-to-let boom? Our cover story a few weeks ago was on the matter of buy-to-let. I also wrote about it here: Is this the end for …
A press release arrives from Zoopla. They want me to know that the best possible yields on buy-to-let properties for students are in Scotland. Edinburgh comes top with an average rental yield of 6.1%, while …
Ed Conway wrote an interesting article in The Times this week pointing out that, while the numbers might suggest that China is the “world’s greatest manufacturer”, the truth is less straightforward. Your smartphone might have …
It looks like it has begun. We have been telling you here for rather too long that the huge rise in the supply of new-build flats in London would eventually lead to a glut in …
I met with demographics and commodity expert Paul Hodges this week (see my last interview with him here). We talked about how the fall in Chinese growth has given us the collapse of the third …
Closing borders to migrants could lead to the end of the whole European project Only a few months ago everyone who was forecasting the end of the eurozone assumed that it would be economics that …
Tony Blair agrees with us. How unexpected is that? In an article in the Observer this week he points out that the rise of Jeremy Corbyn is about the same thing as the rise of …