In times of crisis it can be argued that the human senses are heightened more than in times when the going is good.
We’ve all been there – a dangerous situation, a broken heart, a lost relative, a sporting loss or a trounced investment – all of which …
The global financial crisis has highlighted the flaws in the financial system and has spread around the world, from market to market from sector to sector with the increasing swiftness of a locomotive running down a hill.
Indeed, the size of the problem is so vast that it’s …
An old adage states that one needs ‘money to make money’ however events of the past year must be ringing true to the contrary for many, in that, one needs ‘money to lose money’.
Undoubtedly, many of those with money, or at least assets (excluding a lucky few) …
There was much backslapping among residential lenders in January as they hailed droves of first home buyers returning to the residential property market.
First home buyers also appear unafraid of loading up with cheap debt – combining the carrot of the Government grant and lower interest rates to …
With the UK economy now officially and indisputably in recession, and with the large part of the UK banking sector on the road to nationalisation, a pertinent, if provocative, question is to ask whether responsible investing could have prevented the current crisis.
Responsible investing is a term for …
Here at burningpants we like to think of ourselves as men (and women) of science.
Yet centuries of Chinese professors, academics and prognosticators and their research on the Chinese Lunar Calendar bear some consideration as we begin this tough year.
However before we look at the year ahead, …
