Financial Mail on Sunday editor Lisa Buckingham on the Glencore/Xstrata merger, Facebook’s floatation and BAE.
‘What the big multiples might be able to swallow with a bit of bleating is murderous to a family-owned business with only one or two outlets’
Monday, January 23rd, 2012Lisa Buckingham on the plight of independent shops in the current economic climate.
Reveal this ‘green tax’ on fuel bills
Monday, January 16th, 2012Energy companies are adapting badly to their new role as the second most hated industry in Britain – after the banks. They have yet to understand the degree of antipathy felt by households forced to watch a growing portion of their disposable household income eaten up in energy bills.
Curb bosses’ excessive pay
Monday, January 9th, 2012Lisa Buckingham: As David Cameron and colleagues return from their festive break determined to ‘do something’ about excessive executive pay, the big investment banks will start unveiling bonuses showing they have paid not one jot of attention to concern about their role in a financial crisis whose legacy will endure for years.
Perhaps they have a point in Tent City
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012Whatever you think of the tents outside St Paul’s Cathedral, the Uncut protests and the Occupy Wall Street campaigners, they have focused attention on some of the iniquities and failings of our financial system.
Our addiction to debt needs a cure and fast
Monday, December 12th, 2011Lisa Buckingham on the legal loan sharks or payday lenders, the latest twists and turns of the Eurozone crisis and the impact new European regulations will have by enforcing equality of treatment for male and female drivers.
Euro could be on brink of a final reprieve
Monday, December 5th, 2011Lisa BucKingham on the Eurozone crisis, the impending risks to the cavity wall and loft insultation firms and Pensions INfrastructure Partnerships.
Give business a tax break for spending
Monday, November 28th, 2011Lisa Buckingham: The blizzard of initiatives in the run-up to George Osborne’s Autumn Statement this week is clearly designed to give the impression that the Government is buzzing with ideas about how to revive the economy despite its determination to stick with deficit reduction Plan A.
