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Most industries have long since been seized by the big guys. Look at coffee shops, once a tapestry of micro…

How big is the legal cannabis industry? Every time I think I’ve seen the highest estimate along comes another breathless…

Millennials are often portrayed as wasting their earnings on soya vanilla lattes and Instagrammable holidays in exotic locations. A Barclays…

They pollute the planet. They are turning global warming into a catastrophe. And they are taking humanity to the brink…

The 1980 cult film The Blues Brothers focuses on Jake and Elwood’s quest to save their convent orphanage by raising…

There will be some slightly heavy traffic on the M20. A Waitrose somewhere will run out of freshly cut Dutch-grown…

Before I begin, I want to make it clear that I have nothing but respect for Her Majesty’s Revenue &…

Imagine that you lost the keys to your house and neither locksmith nor fire brigade with battering ram could pick…

Business rates keep rising. The online giants keep on expanding. The living wage has pushed up staff costs in what…

I have a faint memory that I once came across a property called Loophole Cottage. It was named, I think,…

On Saturday afternoons, Bernie Ecclestone and I can often be found nudging in front of each other looking for bargains.…

In Victor Hugo’s masterpiece Les Misérables, police inspector Javert pursues the hero, Jean Valjean, with a single-minded doggedness, immune to…

Pension freedoms granted to us by the coalition government in 2014, which allowed us to do what we liked with…

The roaring twenties. The booming sixties. The Asian tigers of the 1970s and 1980s, and the dot-com bubble of the 1990s. Every investor is well aware that there have been some great bull markets over the past 100 years…

The Old Masters, the tasteful antiques, the Montblancs — everything in a private bank looks reassuringly expensive but should you…

Wasn’t the point of gold supposed to be to act as a safe haven in times of crisis? That is…

They steal your data, and manipulate it for their own ends. They destroy local shops and small companies. They are…

Buy-to-let investors have long occupied a slot in the national consciousness somewhere between arsonists and child molesters. They stand accused…

As a child, the very name Lloyd’s made me shudder. I am just about old enough to remember the dark…

Saving half a million pounds into a pension pot seems a goal so large and unachievable that many don’t bother.…

We shouldn’t be so smug about how rundown the Gare du Nord is — dirty, badly planned, with some of…

Do you remember the Beanie Baby crash of 1999? Chris Robinson, an actor who appeared in the TV series General…

The collapse of Carillion has reminded the public of the existence of short-sellers: stock-market participants who benefit from falling share…

We are forever being told that artificial intelligence (AI) is coming to take our jobs. Is your financial advisor one…

I’ve long wanted to invest but have never known how. Buying stocks and shares or investing lump sums in blue…

There are several mantras that experienced investors use to guide themselves through the markets. ‘Sell in May and go away’…