, November 21, 2024
March 05, 2021
There was chaos in the US yesterday. The S&P 500 has dropped four per cent in the last week; the NASDAQ composite lost six per cent. And why? Because the markets think that the economic recovery will be faster than previously feared.’...
March 03, 2021
In his budget Rishi Sunak announced that corporation tax will be increased in 2023. A chorus of voices warn that there will be an exodus of companies from the UK as a result. There is only one fix: a global corporation tax....
March 01, 2021
Is there a bubble, are tech stocks grossly overvalued? If they are, there could be serious economic trouble ahead, but the biggest danger is not a bubble. It is Luddite thinking, encouraging us to think there is a bubble....
February 26, 2021
In the week that the US Treasury Secretary warned that bitcoin was extremely inefficient, the demand for crypto credit cards has soared 194 per cent in just one year, finds research....
February 23, 2021
With vaccines being rolled-out on both sides of the Atlantic, with Covid infection and death rates falling rapidly, markets decide they don't like all this good news and sell....
January 29, 2021
“We know that climate risk is investment risk,” said Fink, “But we also believe the climate transition presents a historic investment opportunity.”...