Catalonia dreaming…
What happens in Catalonia this Sunday could, even more than Brexit, cause massive headaches in Brussels… 2014 reimagined… Imagine, if…
7 years ago
Economics & Markets
Peer-to-peer property lending – Which platform is right for you?
Over the past decade, the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending sector has gone from strength to strength. A number of government measures…
7 years ago
The bitcoin surge – A new era for money or a dangerous bubble?
In recent decades, governments and central banks have come under fierce criticism for the way they manage our most important…
7 years ago
Mellon on the Markets
This missive is being written on the Edinburgh to London train, as I return from a full week at the…
7 years ago
Why you should be worried about higher interest rates
One of the most intriguing investment books I have ever read is Forty centuries of wage and price controls: how…
7 years ago
How will the markets respond if Trump’s authority flags further?
Is the Trump Bump over? President Trump’s Washington is paralysed. It has proven impossible to repeal Obamacare and to replace…
7 years ago
Climate change: Future-oriented investors need to get on-trend
Climate change is a reality. The glaciers are melting and the sea is getting hotter – with intractable consequences like rising…
7 years ago
Thucydides, Spreadsheet Phil and the coming Crash
An imminent stock market crash is more likely than investors might suppose. My recurrent nightmare this summer, partially informed by…
7 years ago
The Macron Miasma
How does a spendthrift state which consumes nearly 57 percent of its GDP change its ways? How does a regulated,…
7 years ago
The wisdom in books
“If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could…
7 years ago