If you are investing in tobacco stocks for long term income, you aren’t alone. And on the face of it, you aren’t wrong either – the big firms have long provided some of the best …
Will buy-to-let investors have another thing to worry about with right to buy? Just before the election, I wrote that extending the ‘right to buy’ to the housing association sector was the worst policy of …
Birmingham property has plenty going for it, and is far cheaper I have been writing a bit about property in the Midlands recently – more on that in a few weeks. So I was particularly …
What have you done for charity asked a jolly tweet earlier this week? My answer? Rather more than I wanted to. I’ve worked really very hard and paid a lot of tax. Some of that …
Should you hoard cash? We wrote about this here and here last week. But there’s been a new development in Denmark. The Danish government is concerned that cash puts too many “administrative and financial burdens” …
We’ve written several times before about our worries that part of the end game of the financial crisis will be capital controls across the developed world. That worry isn’t going away. Yesterday, it emerged that …
I wrote last week that for all the mutterings about booms and bubbles in China, it might actually be one of the best buys in the world at the moment. This view was met with a …
I wrote earlier that it might be a good idea to start hoarding cash. If there is to be a run on the banks, and cash is to start trading at a premium to its face …
A few months ago, I chaired a morning conference dedicated to small British businesses One of the things that stood out most in the conversation about financing was the entrepreneurs’ houses. When each of them …
I went on the Today programme on Radio 4 on Saturday morning to talk about a quirk in the UK GDP numbers. Last week’s numbers were mildly disappointing (quarterly growth was up 0.3%, compared with …