Investment
Will the new breed of retail investors cash in – or crash out?
‘Feed the ducks when they’re quacking’ sounds like advice from a foie gras farmer — but let’s leave gastronomy till…
Comedy gold: the economics of internet irony
The economics of internet irony
Why I won’t invest in Deliveroo
‘The reason we have the vaccine success is because of capitalism — because of greed, my friends.’ So Boris Johnson…
Is this a once-in-a-generation chance to invest in central London?
Is now the time to invest in commercial property?
The car industry is accelerating towards an electric future
Back in November, when Downing Street’s pandemic responses looked daily more incompetent, the announcement of a ban on sales of…
Up Crash: why are markets soaring as the economy tanks?
The economy is tanking but stock markets are soaring. Why?
Why I joined the online army taking on the hedge funds
Inside the online army waging war on Wall Street
The Reddit rampage is a sign of market turmoil ahead
The Reddit story — in which a ragtag army of small investors have executed a spectacular short squeeze against hedge-fund…
My stamp duty solution for the Chancellor
On the Wednesday in early July when Rishi Sunak announced a temporary increase from £125,000 to £500,000 in the stamp…
The end of the line for the rail franchise fiasco
Good riddance to the passenger rail franchise system which has finally been killed off by Covid, though a majority of…
The battle to tackle excess boardroom pay may already be won
At a low moment in late March, I suggested that all large companies should consider temporary cuts in executive salaries…
Is it too late to jump on the gold bandwagon?
The price of gold has been rising since the earliest virus reports from China in December. Adherents regard it as…
Neil Woodford could do the washing-up at my fantasy Christmas lunch
It’s the season for kindness and conviviality. In that spirit — and recognising that business, like personal life, rarely follows…
Are Boris’s hedge-fund pals conspiring to ‘short the UK’? I doubt it
Minding my own business at 67 Pall Mall — the private members’ club favoured by oenophile West End hedge-fund managers…
How BlackRock became a sanctuary for clean-cut bankers and dormant politicians
A few months ago, an aggressive US pressure group called the Campaign for Accountability declared that it had a new…
Smokers are paying for your pension
Axa will no longer invest in the tobacco industry: the French insurance giant will sell €184 million of shares and…
Why British investors are wrong to panic about China
The western stock-market panic over China is excessive and irrational … so buy now
Buy-to-let investing just became a very, very bad idea
If you pick up a buy-to-let property now, you’ll be fighting the full might of the Chancellor and the Bank of England
The bears are here to stay – but we’ll survive
Like Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant, we’ve just been savaged by a bear but we’ll probably survive. Leading UK-listed stocks…
We don’t need research to change banking culture. We need jail sentences
Was the Financial Conduct Authority leaned on by the Chancellor to scrap its ‘review of banking culture’? Or did it…
Sorry, but I can’t join in the China panic (especially not while I’m on a cruise)
MS Queen Victoria, 38°N 19°E I’ll do my best, but I’ve got to be honest: being surrounded by shining Ionian…
Would the return of the drachma mean a bonanza for banknote printers?
Bank job Should we buy shares in companies which print banknotes in expectation of one getting to print millions of…
The only certain winner in the Greek stand-off: cliché
The clear winner in the Greek crisis is the author of The Little Book of Negotiating Clichés, whose royalties must…
From surfing to takeovers: the story behind the richest man in Brazil
The tectonic plates of economic life rumble and shift. As ever, market watchers are obsessed by big themes — and…
Should we fear a Mugabe-style land grab in rural Scotland?
Are estate owners to be nationalised?
