After a dismal decade of falling share prices and rising inflation, 2012 will be a ‘make or break’ year for millions of savers and investors. Fear has replaced greed as the dominant emotion in global stock markets and there are signs that many individual shareholders are about to ‘throw in the towel’ – or have [...]
How can you beat the mortgage famine which looks certain to be made worse by tighter regulation of bank and building society lending? Hundreds of thousands of homeowners aged over 50, first-time-buyers and the self-employed will find it more difficult to obtain the credit they need to unlock wealth tied up in bricks and mortar, [...]
Now for some exciting news. After considering your survey results (thank you, again) and researching hotel pricing and availability (very time-consuming process) I’m pleased to announce that FinCon12 will be held in lovely Downtown Denver on September 6-9, 2012!
Denver is going to a be a great place to have the conference. It’s centrally located (under [...]
Now for some exciting news. After considering your survey results (thank you, again) and researching hotel pricing and availability (very time-consuming process) I’m pleased to announce that FinCon12 will be held in lovely Downtown Denver on September 6-9, 2012!
Denver is going to a be a great place to have the conference. It’s centrally located (under [...]
Further to the issue I raised in my last post, Krugman has responded to the criticism David Andolfatto (referencing myself and Stephen Williamson) offered. Krugman notes that his original claim was the somewhat bold one of accusing Lucas (another Nobel prize-winner) of not understanding what Ricardian Equivalence is (the charge that Williamson, Andolfatto and I [...]
Cheap money – with interest rates frozen at a historic low for 33 months – means the number of people going bankrupt continues to fall and has now reached its lowest point since the credit crisis began, accountants calculate. But experts at RSM Tenon and Grant Thornton warn that this trend will reverse when interest [...]
