Category : Current financial events

Regulation, regulation, regulation

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Kim Stephenson

There’s still lots of huff and puff about bank bonus going on.  I see today that “reluctantly” it has been agreed they can pay themselves what they want.  Mathematically and economically, I don’t think the arguments for paying unlimited bonus are valid, but … Continue reading →

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Chaos

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Kim Stephenson

I recently mentioned (in relation to property) that “experts” sometimes think they can predict the future.  This seems to be very prevalent in economics, which I thought was odd because other sciences have come up to date and recognised the … Continue reading →

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Investing in property

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Kim Stephenson

I’ve recently been reading “expert” predictions for the housing market in 2011. It’s really entertaining.  They are all trying to be positive and say that it is a good market.  At the same time, they don’t want to look stupid so … Continue reading →

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