Commentary

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…

Britain looks set for more years of slog, but our corporate sector should do much better, and besides, shares look cheap.

Hargreaves Lansdown may charge a switching fee if you want to transfer your funds. Here’s our latest information on what it will cost you.

What do you think? Will you be taking popcorn into the cinema to see The Iron Lady come January – or sneaking in a bag of rotten tomatoes?

Online financial advice is still in its infancy, though we’ve already come a very long way from helpful emails from a chap in Nigeria. What does the future hold?

I went to London to visit St Paul’s, and all I got was this crummy t-shirt saying money isn’t real but everyone should have more of it.

Markets are plunging again, but there’s nothing you can do about it. Concentrate on what you can control when you invest.

Shares are still plunging. If you’re brave there are some tempting investments to be made.

Should we be as worried as the markets are about equities, or should we more fear low bond yields? It really depends on our time horizon.

It’s a torrid time for stock markets, but why would anyone sane prefer to buy government bonds at historically tiny yields?

People have been doing rubbish jobs and hating it for hundreds of years. Modern office angst is nothing special.

The FT’s John Lee is an excellent investor, whose views on shares are well-worth following – but just don’t track too close behind.

Why help some City whizkid buy his first million pound loft apartment when he can’t even do as well as a simple ETF portfolio?

Would you rather have been born in the 1950s to a stable society and The Beatles, or in the 1970s, to the Internet and Al-qeada?

Don’t mention the war – German companies are among the best in the world, and they’re booming as the world recovers under dark clouds.