Author: The Investor

I guestimated in my rant about the new 50% tax rate introduced in the UK Budget yesterday that I wouldn’t be much better or worse off because of the various changes. A quick skim this morning through the various online calculators that have popped up proves the point: I will…

I had a lot of fun today covering the UK Budget over on the Monevator Twitter channel. It was fun racing other finance bloggers and the bloke who does the BBC captions to announce the news. There were two occasions though when I was late with my updates. Both times…

I looked last week at the steep rises in US and UK bank share prices as the fear factor has fallen back. U.S. banks are up 50% over the month, for instance. But in the case of certain UK banks, the reversal has been even more extreme. Consider Barclays shares…