Money

Why cash is still king to me

22 January 2022 9:00 am

In defence of hard cash

Eighteen months of inflation is not 'transitory'

13 November 2021 11:25 am

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

13 November 2021 9:00 am

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?

6 November 2021 10:58 pm

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?

6 November 2021 9:00 am

Are banking apps luring under-thirties into debt?

What’s more expensive – petrol or fizzy drinks?

30 October 2021 9:00 am

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?

2 October 2021 9:00 am

The rise of the digital yuan

Is the inflation panic over? Probably not

14 September 2021 8:44 pm

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

14 August 2021 9:00 am

The great holiday Covid test rip-off

The crisis in Lebanon is a warning for the West

24 July 2021 9:00 am

Lebanon is trapped in a nightmare of its own making

Has Covid accelerated the cashless society?

2 June 2021 1:10 am

Time is, I fear, running out. Running out, that is, to avoid handing to a small number of multinational corporations…

Letters: The unfairness of ‘free care for all’

29 May 2021 9:00 am

Taking care Sir: I agree completely with Leo McKinstry that care for parents should be paid out of their estate…

Comedy gold: the economics of internet irony

22 May 2021 9:00 am

The economics of internet irony

Is Farrow & Ball’s business model flaking?

22 May 2021 9:00 am

The happiest thing that happens in May is the coming into leaf of my long beech hedge. The shift from…

The true cost of make-believe money

8 May 2021 9:00 am

I like Bill Maher. He’s a rare practising left-wing comic who’s actually funny. But last week, his routine on cryptocurrency…

Money to burn: shoppers, not the state, will lead our recovery

17 April 2021 9:00 am

Consumers, not ministers, will lead the recovery

Covid is hastening the creep towards a cashless society

13 February 2021 9:00 am

Covid is fuelling the anti-cash crusade

Capital punishment: why wealth taxes don’t work

30 January 2021 9:00 am

Why wealth taxes don’t work

The ideological bankruptcy of modern monetary theory

19 December 2020 9:00 am

There’s nothing new about ‘new monetary theory’

Which countries are most sceptical about vaccines?

28 November 2020 9:00 am

Gloss over Should we be worried that the head of research into respiratory drugs at AstraZeneca is called Dr Pangalos,…

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The cashless lobby is cashing in on the COVID-19 crisis

16 April 2020 5:22 am

Coronavirus, we have been warned many times, has brought scammers out in force. But lobbyists are not far behind. Their…

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Progressives should now admit their outrage about ‘money in politics’ is confected

14 January 2020 1:27 am

There’s a funny silence where the complaints about ‘money in politics’ used to be. The latest numbers on amounts spent…

In defence of pocket money

11 January 2020 9:00 am

Our grandchildren are penniless. They have pretty much everything their hearts desire and they have parents with wallets full of…

Stringfellows for the sex robot age: Bob Bob Cité reviewed

2 November 2019 9:00 am

Bob Bob Cité is a restaurant dangling like testicles from the underside of the Leadenhall Building in the City of…