How worried should investors be of a ‘crash’ Brexit?
The FTSE-100 has been gliding around the stratospheric 7,500 level. So everything must be alright, then? Not necessarily. The FTSE-100…
7 years ago
Economics & Markets
The Isle of Man: A place where you can
If you ever wanted to get an idea how life could be if there were more pragmatic regulations, a simple…
7 years ago
Aftermath: The millennials are coming after your money
Raking over the smouldering embers of the UK general election, there is one salient theme that speaks to the future.…
7 years ago
UK Election 2017: A comedy of errors
It was the big-budget West End musical that flopped. The “snap” UK general election of 2017 never really had a…
7 years ago
Should you give in to Bitcoin fever?
I just came accross an article on CNBC about a trader from Saxo Bank who predicts that Bitcoin will be…
7 years ago
The Scottish Play: A binary election choice
What's done cannot be undone. William Shakespeare, Macbeth. Here in Scotland, the British general election is a referendum on whether…
7 years ago
Mellon on the Markets: Assume the brace position
In the past month, I’ve been going around the British Isles, talking to groups of people about my research into…
7 years ago
Three wheels on May’s wagon…
Campaigning resumes today in the British general election after three days of self-imposed reflection following the abominable events in Manchester…
7 years ago
A New Foundation for American Greatness?
The budget document is unrealistic… Investors have been anxiously waiting for Trump's budget proposals, to see if the fiscal shock…
7 years ago
Trumponomics, Corbynitis and Post-Thatcherism
You can tell a political ideology by its tax-and-spend policies. The two far extremes of the English-speaking political world -…
7 years ago