Worldwide Financial Planning

I prefer to think of non-local businesses as large vacuum cleaners sucking the life, soul and money out of local areas and shipping them off into complex financial offshore arrangements where no tax is paid, thereby turning local towns into ghost towns.

Powell's testimony to Congress also heard him support a faster taper of Fed bond buying. Markets duly reacted, sending equities down and US government bonds up.

Studies show the buyer/giver focuses heavily on that moment of impact, the moment of glee as the paper is opened.

The effectiveness of vaccines had pushed Covid down the list of investor concerns to be replaced by inflation and supply chain disruption. However, the recent rise of cases in Europe was already reminding markets that the pandemic is not yet under control.

There is nothing appetising about a brown envelope unless it says – ‘open this quick, it’s a tax rebate’.

If everything is so much easier, why is it then that my costs are constantly rising and taxes with it?