Ignorant fool
Sigh: On Sunday Reeves said Labour could raise up to £440m a year by closing the carried interest loophole. 1) Close the loophole and you change the number of people getting paid that way. You’ll not...
View ArticleNew definitions of cheap
Sixties icon the Moke, a cheap, fun car Right. And I live where one of those – or the 2CV equivalent, there are a couple around here – would be most, most, fun. Except: The Moke sells for a base price...
View ArticleGood luck to you mate
No, really, good luck: Australia has signed up to an empty promise by agreeing to a US nuclear powered submarine deal for which there is no clear delivery date or technology transfer agreement, the...
View ArticleClass III NI contributions
Something vaguely seen this morning. If you’ve not got 35 years of NI contributions then you can buy more. Pay £900 a year (or so) to buy an extra year’s contributions. This returns you £5 a week, or...
View ArticleThe terrors of Ben Elliott’s film financing
This is just stupid: Analysis of company filings suggests the documentary made a £70,000 loss. Without the HMRC cash rebates, it appears the UK business would not have been able to fully repay its...
View ArticleIs Ben Marlow normally this ignorant?
The elephant in the room is how customer deposits are used to fund day-to-day operations. It wasn’t just that the major carriers didn’t want to provide refunds, it is that they would have struggled to...
View ArticleA fun thought about crypto
So, it has long been said – not least by me – that crypto is enabling folks to repeat and reiterate every monetary scam humans have come up with over the millennia at warp speed. Hmm, so why not dig...
View ArticleCarole Cadwallader’s getting really, really, excited here
Not entirely sure why: And although the SEC found that Facebook had made “misleading disclosures”, including lying to journalists, Lying to journalists isn’t a crime. But the whole thing is Ha!...
View ArticleAhhhh, so they’re going to eat low down on the chain, are they?
A Boeing pilot involved in testing the 737 Max jetliner was indicted on Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges of deceiving safety regulators who were evaluating the plane, which was later...
View ArticlePay rates that might not quite make it
The Ultimate Sports Network is expanding our service to include coverage of the English Premier League. We require passionate fans of a particular team to communicate with your audience, an audience in...
View ArticleJust for myself I think this will fail
“Axel Springer aims to create the leading digital media publisher in the democratic world,” the company told the Financial Times in August. Bets on a string of US online news ventures have followed the...
View ArticleAn interesting bit of research for someone here
The next day we received an email from production with lines quoted from their insurers saying that the premium for a pregnant artist would be so high that the company would not cover it, and therefore...
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Tesla: the $1 trillion company that doesn’t make any money Elon Musk’s company is worth more than every other car maker combined despite making just 500,000 vehicles, meaning each is worth $2m apiece...
View ArticleThis is fun
Auditors at PWC and company directors flagged a “material uncertainty” over its ability to continue as a going concern if trade did not improve. Matches has already twice agreed covenant waivers with...
View ArticleFairly saucy wench here
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen has delivered her strongest call yet for Mark Zuckerberg to step down as chief executive of his social media empire, saying the business will be better off with a...
View ArticleErr, yes?
The business select committee said it had identified “inadequate” accountability within Mr Gupta’s GFG Alliance following an investigation into the impact of the collapse of Greensill Capital, GFG’s...
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A spokesman said that at the time the stock exchange filing was released “Homebase, Boots and Ocado were amongst the multiple brands that accepted Mode to be part of their affiliate programme, through...
View ArticleAh, no, not quite
However, it comes with a price tag. Estimates by the World Bank suggest air freight is usually four to five times more expensive than road transport, and up to 16 times more than sea. This has...
View ArticleA business which rather self-cures
As with house clearances, so with charity shops: Move over fast fashion – second-hand clothing is cool again. And entrepreneurs from Generation Z are making a mint, reselling designer items bought on...
View ArticleThis seems reasonable
We recently cashed in our pensions, despite everybody telling you how tax efficient they are. I don’t like it if the Government can move the goalposts and alter my wealth without my input. I prefer...
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