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Residential Investor

Why Labour will effect leasehold legislation in 2025

by Harry Scoffin | Oct 14, 2024

It is a truism that policy is always downstream from voter opinion. But not all voters are equal. For Labour to go from its worst general election result since 1935 to becoming government in a single term, they needed their vote to be highly efficient, targeting the most powerful electors. In...

The Storyteller

Make America small again

by Garrison Keillor | Mar 25, 2024

Before it dies, I want to come out in favour of the hyperloop project in Minnesota to create underground tubes in which people would travel in capsules propelled by...

The Professor

How to trade house prices

by Norm Miller | Mar 18, 2024

In 1988 Michael Sklarz and I published a paper called “It’s Time for Some Options in Real Estate.” In 1995 David Geltner and I suggested that we needed a fourth asset class,...

The Economist

High costs, greenlash hit Europe

by Nikolai G. Wenzel | Mar 11, 2024

The eyes of the world may be on the US presidential election. But another, usually sleepy campaign is underway: European Parliament elections in June 2024. Most of the action...

The Professor

Radical proposal to spread property wealth

by Yolande Barnes | Mar 4, 2024

In 1604, the English judge Sir Edward Coke declared that “the house of everyone is to him as his Castle and Fortress.” The intervening years turned the saying to “and...

The Analyst

Why the USA should draw back

by Andrew Byers | Feb 26, 2024

The world is in turmoil. The war in Ukraine grinds on, with persistent calls for the United States to continue supplying Ukraine’s war effort. China may be poised to invade...

The Professor

Rediscovering Frank Ramsey

by Colin Lizieri | Feb 19, 2024

Back in July, I was invited to give a keynote speech at an international conference we hosted in Cambridge. In it, I took the opportunity to look back at Cambridge economics a...

The Storyteller

We need each other, it’s a fact

by Garrison Keillor | Feb 12, 2024

The great debate continues over Flaco the eagle-owl spotted recently flying around our home on New York’s Upper West Side, a year after he got loose from the Central Park Zoo:...

The Professor

Gold’s Returns: Professor Lizieri responds to the Undercover Investor

by Colin Lizieri | Jan 29, 2024

One of the hardest tasks in education now is to encourage students to develop critical thinking skills when information sources have fragmented, and debate and argument seem to...

The Fund Manager

New year, oldest asset?

by Undercover Investor | Jan 22, 2024

The new year is a time for both reflection and anticipation. It seems to me it is one of the most important of years to do both thoroughly. 2023 is described by many of my...