Financial Mail on Sunday editor Lisa Buckingham on the Glencore/Xstrata merger, Facebook’s floatation and BAE.
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We can but hope to inch a way to victory
Monday, January 30th, 2012Nothing will happen overnight. But it is certainly encouraging that the empowerment of small shareholders is inching its way on to the Government’s agenda. It would be surprising were this not to be the case, says Lisa Buckigham.
‘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.
‘These fat cat attacks aren’t always right’
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012Lisa Buckingham says that while you might accept that changing the face of our boardrooms and the nature of share ownership are big issues for society, the message from both parties in Government and the Opposition is muddled – in some places ignorant, in others plain wrong.
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.
Banks still to pay out bonuses of billions
Sunday, January 8th, 2012Public anger over soaring corporate pay will be reignited this week when banks start to unveil multi-billion pound bonuses for 2011 despite growing economic misery across the country.
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.
