Around this time of year, I usually write a column about the best investing and business books I have read over the year. This year I thought I would do something a little different. I’m …
Christmas books for the lefties in your family
Category: Blog
Should we tax housebuilders more heavily than other companies?
I’ve never been a fan of windfall taxes, but I am feeling a bit more of one this week. We have written in the magazine frequently about how much we hate the government’s Help to …
How changes to landlords’ tax rules could force house prices down
We wrote last year that if you were in the market for a two-bedroom flat you’d be wise to wait a year or two before you bought, because the changes to the tax relief around …
One rule for ordinary Americans, another for American hedge fund managers
Last year 5,400 US citizens gave up their passports. Most of them did it to avoid having to pay US taxes on their worldwide income forever (the US charges its passport holders tax on all …
iWar: the battle between big tech and big government
We’ve written here a few times that the carefree days of the big tech companies are numbered – they have too much power and too much money for the world’s governments to just leave them …
If the rich leave the country, we will all miss them
Say goodbye to the non-doms. These are a smallish group of people who live in the UK but consider their domicile to be elsewhere (ie they have an allegiance to another country and are likely …
Should you cut and run before the vote?
The Brexit referendum was on the first day of Glastonbury. 175,000 people went. Another 1.75 million watched it at peak times. An average of one million watched it all the time. The big bands didn’t …
The robots are not coming for your job (probably)
One of the questions I am asked most often at the moment comes from worried parents. It isn’t about house prices; it is about jobs: will their children ever be able to get one – …
Why buying tech stocks is betting on politics (and a bad idea)
I wrote here that it would be a bad idea to have too much faith in the (popular) idea that technology stocks are the best thing to hold for long-term growth. Not many of the …
Could Britain rejoin a much-improved EU?
It isn’t often that I agree with George Soros, but on the EU I mostly do. We both think it is dysfunctional; that it is facing an existential crisis of which Brexit is a symptom …