Child benefit is a huge slug of tax-free income that’s set to get taken away from higher earning families, but there are steps you can take to keep hold of it.
Commentary
RIT is back with his handy summary of all the big moves in stock markets, commodities, and UK house prices over the past three months. Get stuck in!
The rich are getting richer, the poor are going nowhere, and the middle-classes are calling for a communist revolution. What have you got to say about it?
I’m pleased to introduce a new quarterly information blast from guest blogger RIT. You’ll find trends in international equities, house prices, and all the key commodities.
Details about Barclays and other banks attempts to rig the LIBOR market for profit are just the latest drip drip drip in the leaking away of the case for bankers.
I’m very pleased to introduce this guest post by Pete Comley, author of the hit free eBook, Monkey with a Pin. (Now also available as an iTunes podcast). Take it away Pete! “Over periods of five years, the returns from shares have historically beaten cash around 80% of the time. Over 10 years, this rises [...]
It’s easy to be daunted by the vast debt numbers that seemingly threaten to overwhelm UK households, but remember we’ve got trillions in assets, too.
New figures reveal how much the nation has got stashed away in ISAs. And surprise surprise, it’s less than it should be.
More recent graduates are finding themselves in lower-skilled jobs, which makes the time and expense of going to university even harder to justify.
I think going to university is now too expensive, time consuming, restrictive and potentially soul-destroying for people with talent to bother with anymore. University has become a terrible deal, and most ambitious people shouldn’t go. There, I said it. I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to admit to myself that tuition fees, [...]
If Scotland was to achieve independence from the UK, what would it mean for investors in Scottish managed financial products, and for other investments?
That rich Chinese consumers like a bit of flash won’t come as a shock to anyone following the earnings of various leading brands. How depressing – for them.
A new report from Goldman Sachs claims we Brits and Americans will still be plenty rich in 2050. But smaller populations means our economies will no longer dominate the global stage.
The London I arrived in 20-odd years ago was fairly flat as world cities go. Not for much longer, as my quick tour about the City of London will show you.
Steve Keen thinks we need to write off all debts and deliberately bankrupt most of our banks. Just another weekend four years into the financial crisis…