Chinese tourists are heading for London About five years ago, I interviewed Russell Napier for MoneyWeek; we’ve talked many times since (you can watch the latest interview here). When I asked him what he thought …
Time isn’t about to run out for first-time buyers We get some pretty rubbish press releases in the MoneyWeek office. But today brought one of the most dim-witted any of us have seen for some …
Do we have a housing supply problem in the UK? Your automatic answer to the question will probably be ‘yes’. After all, if we didn’t have a shortage of houses, house prices wouldn’t be as …
We wondered if 2014 would be a year of rising wages. And, while it didn’t start out that way, it did end on a good note: by the last quarter of the year real wages …
I found myself in some trouble with a few readers last month when, during an interview on the BBC, I referred to pensioners as being one of the richest groups in the UK. But the …
Today David Cameron has said it is time for Britain to get a pay rise. After six post-crisis years of nasty real wage cuts (although not for everyone – see my post on full-time permanent …
We’ve expressed our frustration about the super-high salaries modern CEOs like to pay themselves many, many times (see past posts on everything from the talent myth to the effect of performance-related pay on capital investment, …
Most people think that holding gold is all about insuring yourself against inflation. Hold something that has always held its value over the long term – even during hyper-inflation – and you will have something …
How low can interest rates go? Base rates in Switzerland and Denmark are negative. Several countries are seeing their debt trading on negative yields (see this column from last week on what this means). And …
I had a chat with a member of the UK’s 0.01% a few days ago. He was worried about all sorts of things, from the status of non-doms to the rise of racial intolerance and …