Will Dunn

1 week ago | newstatesman.com | Will Dunn

People from other countries are buying access to the UK state pension and receiving a retirement of guaranteed, inflation-protected income at the expense of the British taxpayer. I can reveal that not only has HMRC facilitated a huge surge in the payments used for this system, but it does not know how many of them are being used to buy the state pension for people overseas. Here’s how it works.

2 weeks ago | newstatesman.com | Will Dunn

And lo, Jesus said unto his disciples: “Verily, I say unto ye, hereafter ye shall celebrate my birthday by trying to eat a whole turkey.” And also to his brethren he spake: “And when ye remembreth my death and resurrection, do so by eating what appeareth to be an ostrich egg, but made out of chocolate.

2 weeks ago | newstatesman.com | Will Dunn

For decades the approach of the world’s best-known individual investor, Warren Buffett, has been to commit to what he described in 2020 as “Our unwavering conclusion: Never bet against America”. In the long run this is a logical position, but in the short term, as Trump takes a chainsaw to the global economy, investors are realising that political decisions made thousands of miles away can take huge chunks out of their retirement savings.

2 weeks ago | newstatesman.com | Will Dunn

April is Stress Awareness Month, and this year, Donald Trump has joined in by imposing on global markets a stress test comparable in size to a global pandemic or the kind of financial crisis that used to happen once in a generation. On “liberation day” (2 April), new tariffs were imposed on almost every country that trades with the US. As financial markets digested the impact, the values of companies worldwide fell by roughly $10trn – an asset bonfire three times the size of the UK economy.

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Will Dunn

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