The recent good economic news pouring out of the UK (see this week’s magazine for more on this) should be focusing everyone’s minds on interest rates. Is it really possible for us to have economic …
If you drive around Edinburgh, Fife or the Borders these days, you see an awful lot of signs from an estate agency called Mov8. Five years ago, you didn’t see any. It’s been a very …
If you are just back from your summer holidays, you may well be thinking about houses. You may be thinking about how nice it would be to own a little house in France, Greece, Turkey, …
We’ve written here several times about the mansion tax. It is interesting because it is effectively a location tax (see previous posts on this). But it is also a shockingly bad idea because it doesn’t …
One of the really interesting things to come out of the Knight Frank report I mention in my post below is just how few houses worth over £2m there are in the UK. According to …
I am always grateful to Albert Edwards at Société Générale. Sometimes I worry that at Moneyweek we are prone to focusing too much on the downside of events. But then I read his work and …
We’ve written frequently about our concerns for the share prices of luxury goods companies here. We’ve been a bit early on it. But looking at the recent news, you do have to wonder how much …
Most relatively well-off people in Scotland are anti-independence. They are perfectly happy in the union, they think it is better for their businesses for them to stay in the union, and like most people, they …
I wrote a few weeks ago that if you leave a market alone, in the end it will sort itself out. High prices will bring on more supply and prices will fall. I added that …
Back in 2012, we had a quick look at the estimated costs and benefits of HS2. Most of the numbers coming from the government appeared to be close to nonsense (finger in the air guesses …