RUTH SUNDERLAND: Great British Isa could inspire a new generation of investors
Critics claim it will benefit only the better-offAnd that it adds to the complexity of the once-simple Isa system Potential disadvantages...
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Soaring interest rates are the real reason Britain has a debt problem
Debt interest being such a large factor as it is now is far from being a new phenomenon. During the...
Lockdowns and money printing have destroyed Western economies
Just one word of apologia for the Budget, then normal service will resume. No elected government and no political party...
Bitcoin’s record high means a record crash is inevitable
Look beneath the bonnet, however, and you find that the frothiness in markets is quite narrow and well defined. In...
Britain is living beyond its means – slashing investment won’t help
The UK is not the only G7 country living beyond its means, overwhelmed by a cacophony of competing grievances. France...
The impossible Budget dilemma facing Jeremy Hunt
For instance, a 1pc point cut in the 20pc basic rate of income tax would cost £7bn per annum, while...
Lack of rate cuts could scupper Tory election strategy
Around half the 320 active North Sea fields are due to cease production by 2030. Yet the UK still relies...
The economic case for mass migration has finally collapsed
It was a delightful theory. Opening Britain’s borders would bring an influx of human capital that would leave the country...
Sweden’s little known tax cut could revive Britain’s flagging economy
In 1971, Roland Huntford, the Stockholm correspondent of The Observer, published a scathing critique of the “soft totalitarianism” exhibited by...
Russia’s economy faces death by a thousand cuts
The first of these channels has definitely not worked. Russia’s main exports, namely oil and gas and some minerals and...
