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…

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…

Mellon on the Markets

This missive is being written on the Edinburgh to London train, as I return from a full week at the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Macron Miasma

How does a spendthrift state which consumes nearly 57 percent of its GDP change its ways? How does a regulated,…

The wisdom in books

“If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could…

Can we make money out of renewables?

Thanks to action on climate change at international level, renewable energy (electricity generation by means of solar panels, wind power,…