Section 23 properties have had their tax treatment changed, in effect the buyer honoured their side of the contract from the outset and...

We have been shaken, and the markets are stirred. Why not have fun in our final days? When asked what I'd do if I was on a plane that w...

We have been talking about this for a while (28/01/09, 11/03/09, 23/04/09), it was a popular topic on this blog in 2009 but well covere...

I was interested in the front page of today's Independent in which Charlie Weston broke a really big story about Irish banks being in a...

I used to be in a Chess Club, and one thing it taught me (apart from how to lose using the Kings Gambit) is that you can often see a ge...

Financial innovation has meant you can make money from many things which may or may not be considered morally correct, there are 'short...

Roger Bootle notes that markets do quite well at the end of a recession and at the start of a recovery by drawing the benefits of the f...

Sometimes when I'm having a rough day I decide to reach out to some of the people that I see on TV or read about in the press and talk ...

The most popular question I am asked as of late is whether or not we are at the bottom of the housing market, and the answer is 'no.......

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