Why worrying about currency swings will hurt your investments
Bears claim you should fear US dollar “weakness”. They claim its 2025 plunge against the soaring euro, Swiss franc, British...
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Keir Starmer: My plan to fix the UK’s broken housing market
A third of home transactions fall through under the tired current system (Picture: Getty Images/PA/J Studios) Buying a house is...
Palm Beach Post poll on a plan to eliminate property taxes in Florida
The issue is whether doing away with property taxes simply amounts to a tax shift by increasing other fees and...
First-mover advantage key to Hong Kong’s success as multicurrency stablecoin hub, says PwC
Hong Kong has a “huge opportunity” to become a global finance hub for multicurrency stablecoins but being a “first mover”...
Currency dominance in the digital age – Academia
or more than 80 years, the United States dollar has enjoyed unrivaled supremacy in world trade and finance, thanks to...
A look at Bitcoin and the rise of cryptocurrency
When the Bitcoin Conference happened in May 2025, it coincided with a meeting with clients who asked, “What is Bitcoin?”...
Managers of exotic investments want more access to your 401(k). Bad idea.
After George W. Bush won reelection in 2004, he famously decided to spend his political capital on an all-out effort...
BRICS 2025 and the Indian dilemma
Listen to article The 2025 BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro concluded without the presence of the presidents of China, Russia and...
$6.2M for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton airport is a smart investment in NEPA’s future
The fact that the largest chunk of $10 million of state funding dedicated to infrastructure improvements at transportation hubs is earmarked for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport is not just a likely boon the area economically, but the latest in a longer line of signs of its potential for growth. Airport officials announced the investment last week, and that the $6.2 million funded by the Aviation Transportation Assistance Program that is coming the region’s way will be put toward a project to expand the Pittston Twp. airport’s terminal and upgrade its...
What’s going on with UK house prices?
The latest house price data feels about as clear as mud. According to Rightmove, there was a smaller than usual monthly increase of 0.6 per cent in May, leaving prices up just 1.2 per cent on this time last year. But by Nationwide’s measure, annual house price growth was a more buoyant 3.5 per cent. And according to the official UK House Price Index (HPI), the latest monthly rise was 1.1 per cent, leaving house prices 6.4 per cent higher year on year.IndexRightmoveNationwideUK HPIMonthly house price increase (%)0.60.51.1Annual house price...