From the Editor
Our editor, Merryn Somerset Webb (right), writes a weekly letter to MoneyWeek readers, commenting on the markets, personal finance, taxes and anything else she feels is important and interesting to subscribers. You can find current and past letters below.
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Elvis found on moon
It's now impossible to deny that the UK housing market, which has sustained the consumption of Britain’s indebted population for the last five years, is crashing…...
What to buy in grim times?
I was planning to avoid writing about the property market in this week’s letter. But I just had to comment on the latest piece of housing ‘research’ doing the rounds...
A painful lesson for Britain
There is nothing ‘sound’ about the ‘fundamentals’ of the UK economy. The apparent prosperity of recent years has been built on easy lending, writes John Stepek.
Time to sell your miners
At MoneyWeek, we’ve been bullish on commodities for a long time. However, bull markets don’t go up in straight lines, and this year could be a tougher one for the commodities sector.
What to do? Pay down debt
At the start of this week it seemed that the Easter break had done stockmarket...
Contrarian or kamikaze?
This has been one of the most volatile weeks yet for markets, and there’s...
