Commentary

Does Natwest really charge 51.8% APR on its Black Credit Card? Well, not exactly… but the card is still an expensive luxury.

Stamp duty for first-time buyers was scrapped in the budget, provided they contain themselves to spending less than £250,000. Easy, unless you live near London.

Vince Cable, Alistair Darling, and George Osborne go head-to-head in the Twister session from hell. Who won?

Will somebody in Conservative HQ please turn on the lights? The UK electorate badly needs a clue, but not as much as its politicians.

By watching how investors treat their cash holdings, you can sometimes get a feel for how carried away the market is. Is cash trash?

A very young Tony Blair’s verdict on the 1987 crash sounds uncannily applicable to the 2007-2009 turmoil, too.

Funny how one of the world’s richest men understands how young first-time buyers have been impoverished by crazily high house prices.

The nuts-and-bolts manufacturing sector is loved by the public – now it’s safely out of view in far-flung countries and we have better paid jobs to do.

Companies can’t get dividends out the door quickly enough, for major private shareholders, who face a 10% tax rise on dividend income in April.

A frozen chicken would cost £47 if the cost had risen like house prices have since 1971. Does it matter?

Today is Anthony Bolton day on Monevator, in recognition of his exciting new Chinese investment trust.

£1 million in the hand is easily worth £237 million in the bush, especially when the bush is as thorny as this one.

Joseph Stiglitz says the economy is still in trouble after the financial crisis, and banks remain free to take excessive risks.

Attention personal finance bloggers! Unemployment is a lagging indicator. It’s nothing personal. Deal with it!

This isn’t really banker bashing – if anything he was getting ready to do some bashing himself…