The UK remains attractive for dividend investors and the average yield across the top 40 UK dividend stocks is a healthy 4.6%.
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Gullible lenders, guileful fraudsters
This writer became peripherally involved in a property scam worth millions. Originally published August 2021. One early spring day in 2016, I was interviewed by the Serious Fraud...
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Bitcoin is helping both sides in Ukraine conflict…
...but it won’t wreck Russian sanctions. War is expensive. The United States spent about US$1.1 tn (£830bn) on the 2003 Iraq war in today’s money, while the Falklands war...
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Confessions of a valuer, chapter 22: aide memoire – country and western singer less one t
In this very special series of exclusive articles for The Property Chronicle, Australian property legend Norman Harker reflects on his extraordinary 50-year life in real estate....
Golden Oldie
Follow the money
So here’s the thing. Popular economics (by which I mean the sort that someone with a low pass at maths O-level second attempt can just about grasp) suggests that if supply...
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Abandoning the Ox-Cam Arc is another sign of Britain’s warped politics
The average resident of Oxford or Cambridge probably doesn’t fancy themselves as having much in common with Peter Hitchens, the great Jeremiah of British reaction. But this week...
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Private payrolls show surprising strength in January, adding 444,000 jobs
US nonfarm payrolls added 467,000 jobs in January, easily beating expectations. The January data reflects annual benchmark revisions, as well as updates to seasonal adjustments....
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Confessions of a valuer, chapter 21: my bane worse than Durin’s Balrog
In this very special series of exclusive articles for The Property Chronicle, Australian property legend Norman Harker reflects on his extraordinary 50-year life in real estate....
Golden Oldie
Egypt…
Originally published November 2021. Back in the mists of my own pre-history, I was given the The Big Book of Egypt on an early birthday. It was full of drawings, diagrams and...
Golden Oldie
Africa’s energy transition
Originally published November 2021. What could possibly go wrong? “Africa has a significant role to play in the energy transition. We are home to a third of the world’s mineral...