A bit about Bitcoin on the cusp of $100,000 then all the week’s best money and investing reads…
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Feel free to skip one more pundit’s view of the Budget if you’ve had enough. I’m not claiming to be John Maynard Keynes. This is just how I see things. When asked why he robbed banks, the US heist wiz Willie Sutton said: “Because that’s where the money is.” Those hit by what passes for [...]
What caught my eye this week. I was bemused to see Adrian Chiles penning a glowing paean to the Delay Repay compensation scheme in The Guardian this week. I’d always imagined such warm feelings were an Investor family quirk. As Chiles writes: After a bit of a fiddle setting up your account, you automatically, as [...]
What caught my eye this week. When I wrote a few weeks ago that pre-Budget speculation had reached a fever pitch, I was wrong. Turned out that was mere pre-Budget babble. This week was the fever. I have no more speculation to add. Not least because Whitehall-based readers seem to have picked up on my [...]
Even a crystal ball wouldn’t help most people trade successfully, plus all the week’s best reads…
What caught my eye this week. Some good news for investment trust fans this week, as the Financial Times reports: The UK government has exempted investment trusts from onerous cost disclosures in a move analysts believe will boost the £260bn industry and could support trusts’ share prices. In a joint statement this week, the government [...]
What caught my eye this week. Recent weeks have seen us debate whether you should sell ahead of – what’s still only rumoured – capital gains tax rises. But as St. Charlie liked to remind us: invert, always invert! To wit: tax-motivated sellers might create opportunities for bargain-hunting buyers. Of course every tax-fearing seller must [...]
Thoughts from the City on fixing the moribund UK economy, followed by all the week’s good reads…
What caught my eye this week. I found it hard to be outraged by last week’s decimation in the number of pensioners who’ll get winter fuel payments. Restricting the annual cash award to those on means-tested benefits will see only about 1.5m pensioners getting the goodies in future. The other 11.4m pensioners will just have [...]
What caught my eye this week. I am just back from two days away for a wedding with a slightly sore head, a very favourably updated impression of Liverpool, and our regular weekend links only now finalised and tidied up. Oh, and also to the discovery this morning that I hadn’t done as badly as [...]