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Unless you’ve had your head buried in a pile of cash for the last forty years, you almost certainly know the Abba song, Money, Money, Money. Ironically, if you read the lyrics, if anybody knew about money and all of its ‘amusing’ possibilities, the Swedish band...

I used to invest in houses. Quite a lot of them—for myself and for other people who liked my business model and were keen on securing a passive income with excellent returns. And one of the things that I always said (and the reason I invested) is that property prices...

Confession time: a Grinch bemoaned to me recently that I always talk about the same things every month—I bash buy-to-let, repeatedly saying that it’s going to hell in a handbag, and I bang on about hotel investments being the best thing since the discovery of...

There’s a huge challenge facing anybody who wants to talk about today’s economy without using certain phrases loaded with meaning — the first an infuriating portmanteau we’re sick to the back teeth of hearing; the second, which more by accident than design alliterates...

It’s been said that money is a fiction. The way central banks have been allowed to take control of global economies and scale up on output, aka QE, would suggest that there is a grain of truth to this idea. And now they’re tapering the flow. That’s right, the cash tap...

In the last newsletter I talked about being decisive, but more importantly when it comes to property investments, about being specific. And I also touched upon the nature of deals and why it’s best to walk away from something that seems flawed. I mean, you wouldn’t...

While property investing across the domestic market has lost its shimmer of allure, there’s little point in denying that property, if you know where to look, what to buy, and how to fashion the best deals, is still head and shoulders above many of the other less...

The world, if you discount plastic pollution, the possible overthrow of humans by robots, and rogue politicians poisoning dissenters on foreign soil is, it seems, rocking slowly back to an even keel—at least from an economics point of view. All is well. Prosperity is...

It’s been an interesting start to 2018. We’ve got the rising spectre of inflation, despite repeated assurances from the likes of Mark Carney, not so long ago, that what we really ought to be concerned with is deflation; a stock market wobble that’s given investors,...