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Will China bring down the western economies?
So could China destabilise the western economies in the way suggested? Ironic that the communist world now has the potential to cause such damage to the capitalist economies. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/11805523/Doomsday-clock-for-global-market-crash-strikes-one-minute-to-midnight-as-central-banks-lose-control.html
How Much is a Corbyn?
In The City for a while, a million pounds was known as a 'Bernie'. The reason? Bernie Ecclestone gave the Labour party a million squids and shortly afterwards Tony Blair announced a temporary exemption of F1 (run by Bernie Ecclestone) from the laws about sports advertising tobacco. So Mr Corbyn has a policy that means…
REITs VS BTL
Has anyone had a look into British REITs? Companies like British Land, Land securities, Shaftesbury, etc How do their past performance compare to just standard BTL-investing? For a few months now I have wanted to have a look at some of the companies and do some sums as it seem an interesting comparison but haven't had the…
Britain is living through the best time ever
http://uk.businessinsider.com/why-britain-is-living-through-the-best-era-ever-uk-economy-jobs-housing-2015-8 Have a great weekend, fellow MSE'ers. Enjoy the good times. :beer:
what would you do for nothing but a thank you?
Or no thanks at all. Bit of background here. Between us I and a colleague do a bit of volunteering. One chairs a charity board, the other does a lot of arranging events to raise funds. Neither gets as much help from anyone else involved in supporting either `good cause` as they need. Both are nearly full time jobs, both do…
Scottish tax brings market in £1m homes to a standstill
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/life/property/article4530241.ece How's that going to bring in extra revenue? Oh, its not supposed to....
UK unemployment rises as most new jobs go to citizens of other EU state
Well at least can't say the EU folks are here to be on benefits! Unemployment is still pretty low (5.6%), possibly just a storm in a teacup!
ONS HPI June 2015. MoM up a bit and YoY also up a bit
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_413468.pdf MoM is just noise YoY +5.7% YoY levelling out, bringing it roughly in line with average pay rises. Good news I guess.
Why buy a house when you can buy a whole airport for £7000
Slightly facetious title, but interesting story from the Telegraph. Ciudad Real Airport was one of the white elephants built in the Spanish construction boom. Now a joint British-Chinese group may buy it and invest in it as a hub for Chinese flights to Europe. It was originally touted as Madrid South airport, in spite of…
Rents in UK now most expensive in Europe
Few key facts from the document. The average british renter spends 39.1% of their income on rent. For the EU, the figure is 28%. The average rent in the UK is now £750 per month. In the EU the average rent is £400 per month. (just think what people could do and how the economy would benefit with that extra money). 1.37m…
how would you run the country
Ready, steady, go. Blank sheet of `paper`
Housing is an example of how Scotland makes better use of its powers than Westminster
An interesting take. Especially re confidence and security to build without worrying about losing stock to RTB. Which is the better housing policy.. Hmmmm.... Any thoughts ? https://commonspace.scot/articles/2071/gary-elliot-housing-is-an-example-of-how-scotland-makes-better-use-of-its-powers-than-westminster Full article…
How much do you chuck away?
BTW - 24 st is like 152kg!!!!! What would be the impact on the economy/retails if people stop the waste?
SNP’s going anti-business, so let’s woo companies away from Scotland
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11799541/SNPs-going-anti-business-so-lets-woo-companies-away-from-Scotland.html Interesting article........discuss :D
American entrepreneur stuns Australia and Australian boomers.
By criticising Australia. And Australian boomers. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3193240/Australian-entrepreneur-Nick-Holmes-Court-founded-BuzzNumbers-GoodCall-goes-epic-Facebook-RANT.html Australians are famously broad shouldered concerning criticism of their country from foreigners, so I'm sure this won't bother…
Rental half mortgage costs in Sydney ?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3193240/Australian-entrepreneur-Nick-Holmes-Court-founded-BuzzNumbers-GoodCall-goes-epic-Facebook-RANT.html
Surveyors predicting sizeable price increases
Over the next 12 months .... http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/aug/13/house-prices-rents-rise-rics-surveyors
Scotland and Greece
Just a quick question before I go out. If Scotland ever does go independent do you think Scotland will end up like Greece?
The economics of an older partner
My wife is 7 years older than me and wants to stop work at 62 with the expectation that I will fill the income gap between her works pension (at 62) and state pension at 66. However I would like to stop work at 55 and do some voluntary work. So there's an impasse. Although I'm younger I've worked the same number of years.…
Polish to go on strike.
The Polish workers in the UK are being urged to strike in order to show their affects on the UK economy. I say 'Go ahead and strike, you will find that in your absence, we have replaced you with a Bulgarian/Latvian/Romanian/Hungarian (delete as applicable).'

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