house prices
Do you think the age of boom and bust is over? All our party leaders are betting that it is
After working for Bill Clinton, the political strategist James Carville said he had changed his mind about where power really…
The squeezed middle is a myth
With soaring house prices and low interest rates, the middle classes are doing rather well. But you’d never think so to hear them
Portrait of the week
Home Demand for housing posed ‘the biggest risk to financial stability’ according to Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank…
George Osborne is entitled to look smug
The popular pastime for financial commentators this season is sticking pins in George Osborne. To those on the left who…
The engagement-ring theory of property bubbles
Google ‘the bread market’ and you get 135,000 hits, mostly from specialist food industry websites. Google ‘the property market’, however,…
Why we should fear the new housing bubble
It’s senseless to ask how things are going to end, because things as a general rule don’t. They rumble on,…
