Robert Sutherland Smith

Will George’s Budget deliver yet more Bad Economics?

A case study module in comparative economics for Trump University (deceased.) As imagined by Robert Sutherland Smith. George, Gideon Osborne of…

British American Tobacco: Still a Smoking Hot Investment?

British American Tobacco at 4,006p following the annual results for the year to 31st December 2015. The share price has broken…

Has the sell-off run its course?

Investing is not another science. It is not physics where actions can cause pre-determinable reactions. Some people would like to…

Is Lloyds Bank a buy for future income?

Lloyds Bank at 72p after the annual results for the year to December 31st 2015. The shares are essentially now…

All the King’s Horses

THE TRADITIONAL MACRO ECONOMIC MODELS OF THE WEST ARE SPLUTTERING. CAN ALL THE KING’S HORSES AND ALL THE KING’S MEN…

Is HSBC’s 7% dividend yield too good to be true?

HSBC (HSBA) was one hundred and fifty years old in 2015. It has celebrated its birthday by putting in place…

Rolls-Royce – after the dividend cut

Back in mid October 2015 I penned a piece in which I posed the question of whether it was then…

Rio Tinto – after the dividend cut

Rio Tinto mining at 1,705p, after publication of the annual figures for the year to December 31st 2015. The final…

Why I don’t think we’re heading for a re-run of 2008-09

The return of Banking fears! The news that the mighty Deutsche Bank is under suspicion takes us back to the…

AstraZeneca: Longer term attractions?

AstraZeneca at 4,109p, after the annual report for last year to 31st December 2015. The shares tick a sufficient number…