“Stock Market Crash 2018: $361 billion sell-off”

Feb 6, 2018 | Stockmarket

An independent (financial adviser’s) view

Those headlines are always accompanied by pictures of men in front of computers, ties askew, heads in hands as they wave goodbye to their bonuses. The latest end-of-the-world as we know it ‘plunge’ was triggered, as always, by something non-sensical, the fear that because more people in the US have jobs, they might spend more, push up inflation and maybe interest rates. The glass half-full version might be that companies will do better and make more profits as a result. But if a herd of wildebeest think they’ve seen a lion on the horizon there’s no persuading them it’s a trick of the light. And that’s how stock markets work.

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“Rachel Reeves may be forced to raise taxes”

“Rachel Reeves may be forced to raise taxes”

Why did she/they (in the old sense) think that tinkering around with IHT and CGT would be enough to sort out the NHS; and the potholes; and…and the list goes on. My guess is  that they asked the Treasury for a list of anything not involving income tax that they could get away with lightly, although they should already have learned from the winter fuel stuff that all publicity is not good publicity.