Commentary

Bankers don’t deserve their multi-million bonuses in the best years, let alone when they’re on life support. Bash those bonuses.

The 2009 pre-budget report was certainly painful, but instead of surgically precise spending cuts and tax lifts, we got clumsy bloodletting.

Alliance Trust says that the future of investment trusts could be in doubt if Europe’s AIFM Directive becomes law.

The best place to be when the news story about the Dubai debt crisis broke was somewhere where it didn’t break at all.

In the ten years since the dotcom shares peaked and then began to plunge, everything and nothing has changed.

Now the jokes are appearing, how many lives does this bull market have left? Well, one analyst says today gold could go up five-fold.

The banks are both too big to fail and too profitable to be allowed to continue in their current state.

France Telecom workers are killing themselves in despair at their working conditions. Why didn’t they quit?

If you’re over 50 and you’re resident in the UK, console yourself on both fronts with the news that you can put more money into ISAs from today.

The UK’s next Prime Minister will inherit a country spending way beyond its means, and as deep in denial as any spendaholic

I’ve got a confession to make: The economic meltdown of 2008 was thrilling in some twisted way, and I miss it.

Revealed: Hitler is making even less money from his financial blog than me! Plus the usual good money and investing article links.

Lots of people have been left on the sidelines by the stock market rally, hunkered down in a bunker waiting for a bomb that’s already exploded.

The 18th Issue GEB from NS&I offers limited returns for the risks of seeing no gains. I wouldn’t go near it.

Why would a company want to set back 500 years of history to offer its own bonds directly to the public?