With the ceasefire seemingly holding in the Lebanon, its maybe too soon to fully analyse the aftermath, but it certainly seems that the winners from the war have been Hizbollah, with both the Israeli and the ‘official’ Lebanese governments weakened during the process. Soon after the bombs stopped falling and the people returned to...
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Seasoned landlords are offloading their exposure to risky portfolios just as new buy-to-let beginners are jumping into the market in droves. Some say it’s like watching ‘Lambs to the slaughter’ – never has such a phrase summed up the abject state of the ‘buy to let market’ so succinctly. For some time commentators, this...
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The Bank of England has revised its forecast of growth upwards to 2.8 percent this year, with further projections of growth next year reaching 3.1 percent. For growth to slow down to the Gordon Brown’s (UK Chancellor) projection of 2-2.5 percent there would need to be a very sharp decrease in the economy over...
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