ManagmentTriad The End Of Britain Hello, Thirteen years ago, we launched MoneyWeek magazine... MoneyWeek is now the UK's best-selling financial magazine, and serves more than fifty thousand subscribers in more than 60 countries. You may have heard of MoneyWeek because of the work we’ve done over the last several years – helping investors avoid some of the big disasters associated with the credit collapse. We warned investors to take their money out of Europe in 2009… to avoid buying the euro… to stay away from the big banks in 2008… and steer clear of property investments in 2007. We even helped our subscribers find opportunities to profit from these events, by making some prudent investments in gold and a number of other undervalued assets. Since then, we’ve spent a substantial amount of time trying to warn investors about the reality of Britain’s vast national debt… and the impact we believe it will have on private investors. And that why we’ve written this letter. Everywhere you look, things are going up. But just remember:
Vince Cable: interest rates may have to rise to combat housing boom | Business The business secretary, Vince Cable, has warned that interest rates may have to rise to constrain a "raging housing boom" in London and the south-east. Speaking on BBC1's Andrew Marr Show, he said if interest rates were not increased by the Bank of England, there was a danger that large parts of London could be inhabited only by foreigners and bankers as house prices spiralled. He added that, on the other hand, if interest rates were increased it would have a negative impact on UK manufacturing since exchange rates would rise, making exports harder. It is the first time Cable has spoken so openly about the possibility of interest rates rising due to the imbalance in the economic recovery. He again called for the government to rethink its Help to Buy scheme, which he said was conceived in entirely different circumstances. He also hinted strongly he did not want to follow the Conservative path on spending cuts after the election in 2015, saying the social fabric was under strain.
TTIP explained: The secretive US-EU treaty that undermines democracy | Ars Technica UK The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), sometimes known as the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA), is currently being negotiated behind closed doors by the European Union and the US. If it is successfully completed, it will be the biggest trade agreement in history. But TTIP is not just something of interest to export businesses: it will affect most areas of everyday life, including the online world. Opponents fear it could undermine many of Europe's hard-won laws protecting online privacy, health, safety and the environment, even democracy itself. Those far-reaching effects flow from the fact that TTIP is not a traditional trade agreement, which generally seeks to lower tariffs between nations so as to increase trade between them. Instead, TTIP aims to go beyond tariffs, and to remove what it calls "non-tariff barriers." TTIP's stated aim to smooth away those NTBs is good news for the companies, but not so much for pesky humans. Table of Contents