Money
Letters: What Sturgeon has got wrong
Sturgeon’s single issue Sir: Nicola Sturgeon needs to be careful what she wishes for. Declaring that the next general election…
The case for hiking interest rates
Check out these hyperventilating headlines from last week: ‘What the Fed’s largest interest rate hike in decades means for you’…
Inflation is a social evil, so why don't our leaders care?
It was a ‘destroyer of society’, a ‘tax on ordinary people’s savings’ and a threat to social order. You don’t…
I’m being priced out of eating out
Restaurant prices are no longer worth it
Is the Elizabeth line worth the cost?
It’s 8.16 on Tuesday morning and I’m actually writing this on a moving Elizabeth line train. Moving in the sense…
Fraud victim? Don’t bank on getting your money back
Why won’t banks help fraud victims like my daughter?
Crypto is dead
When Britain voted for Brexit, Macron boasted that Paris would eat the City of London’s lunch. It didn’t quite work…
The Biden Bust is here
A wave of government spending would reboot the economy. Fairer taxes would pay for restored infrastructure. Skills would be improved,…
I feel sorry for Rishi Sunak
Perhaps I should stress from the get-go that I do not know Rishi Sunak. So far as I know, we’ve…
Should the young pay less tax than the old?
In evolutionary terms, it is obvious why we get more conservative with age. Two strong forces, acting in the same…
Rishi Sunak's spring statement speech in full
Mr Speaker, As I stand here, men, women and children are huddled in basements across Ukraine seeking protection. Soldiers and…
What to expect at the spring statement
The big story of Wednesday’s spring statement by the Chancellor will be the impact of inflation – which has soared…
The commodity kings: have traders finally discovered a moral compass?
Have traders finally discovered a moral compass?
Our monetary bubble is about to burst
OK, I finally watched Netflix’s Don’t Look Up. Surprisingly, I enjoyed it — especially before its effective subtitle for us…
The ancient problem of unscrupulous ‘doctors’
Yet again ‘doctors’ with no qualifications have been found advertising dodgy but expensive products and treatments, in this case, injections…
Letters: The Christian case for cash
Naysayers needed Sir: I was struck by James Forsyth’s observation that in 10 Downing Street, ‘hard truths and hard choices…
Why cash is still king to me
In defence of hard cash
Eighteen months of inflation is not 'transitory'
The big central banks have been insisting for months now that the rise in inflation is temporary, and will fade…
The best podcasts about money
Stories about money are never about money. They are about pain, about family, about atrocity, about luck, about health, about…
What is the Bank of England playing at?
Last week, the Bank of England sent a number of confused messages. One was almost shocking: Andrew Bailey said that…
Are banking apps luring young people into debt?
Are banking apps luring under-thirties into debt?
What’s more expensive – petrol or fizzy drinks?
Filming fatalities The actor Alec Baldwin accidentally shot a cinematographer on set when mistakenly given a gun loaded with real…
Will China’s ‘digital yuan’ reinvent money as we know it?
The rise of the digital yuan
Is the inflation panic over? Probably not
So, is the post-Covid inflation panic over? That is how it looked last month, when the government’s preferred inflation index,…
The great holiday Covid test rip-off
The great holiday Covid test rip-off
