In my editor’s letter this week in MoneyWeek magazine, I mentioned that fiscal stimulus in Japan was taking an interesting turn. It is. Shinzo Abe has come over a little Theresa May with some anti …
Are you a cash strapped government looking to make £900m in a hurry? Perhaps to add to one area of your budget where there has been a spot of trouble recently? Want to do so …
I have written here several times before that pension deficits in the UK must be holding down in the UK. That’s partly because the ongoing liability deters capital investment – one of the factors that …
Sirius Minerals is going to make a lot of lucky landowners very happy. Imagine working for 50-odd years at an RAF radar station in Yorkshire. You retire to a five-acre farm nearby with your comfortable …
Who should be most worried about the collapse in the price of diesel cars? For most commentators it is those who don’t own their cars outright. Personal contract plans (PCPs ) now account for nine …
One of the biggest worries in the West has long been pension deficits. How we ask, over and over, will we ever manage when our defined-benefit pension funds are £530bn in deficit? The consensus answer …
Are the world’s big shareholders finally grasping that, as the technical owners of listed companies, they have long-term financial and social responsibilities? There are a few signs. You can see it starting in the pay …
Here we go again. Nicola Sturgeon has started talking about raising the top rate of income tax in Scotland to 50%. She has done this before – and ended up backing away from it every …
I wrote here recently that the coming election is to be one of the most important of our lifetimes. Not because of Brexit, but because of the shift I expect it to represent in the social …
“Relief sweeps markets” That was the headline on the FT today “as centrist Macron secures place in French run off” – a run off that he is expected to win decisively. French equities soared; French government …