Spear's Wealth Management Survey

Stephen Hill

Stephen Hill is a businessman who has been published on classical economics and on European philology and philosophy.

Bonkers, Bunkers and Bankers

Today, the presidency of the dysfunctional EU has passed to Cyprus. Who? What? You’re kidding? No, you’re bonkers!

Only a Fool Would Try to Save the Euro

Have you noticed how anyone who supports the euro or thinks it’s the answer to anything inevitably ends up to be seen as an errant fool?

Never Mind the Elections, Greece Is Bust

The Greek elections are almost irrelevant as soon as they are over: Greece is bust, whether it is inside or outside the eurozone

Spanish Bailout Risks Fanning the Flames

It is impossible to imagine a bigger balls-up than the Spanish banking fiasco and the EU’s attempts to sort it out

The Eurozone's Voice of Sanity

The eurozone has descended into a bunfight, and none of the politicians apart from one can see the wood from the trees

The Perfect Storm

Was it further proof that God is actually an Englishman and that he should get out of the eurozone as soon as possible and get back to having his own currency?

Francois Hollande's luck

Hollande wants to blow up the FiskalPakt as though it was old ordnance left over from the last German conquest of Europe’s economy

Summer of Discontent

Until now the crisis pre-baked into EMU has been economic, but last week it became political

The Pain in Spain...

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There is only one way for the eurozone to be saved, and that is for Germany to pay for the gain it has got from the eurozone by transfers to the PIGS.

Update on the Global Economy: There are Icebergs Ahead

With the Eurozone debt crisis ongoing, the US jobs market flagging, a potential hard landing in China, a possible Israel-Iran standoff and nuclear North Korea flexing its muscles, the all-clear has not sounded yet. Keep your tin-hats and gas-masks handy well into 2013, and maybe beyond.

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In this new anti-tax-avoidance era, when so many tax reliefs have been withdrawn, I've heard that investing in a Business Property Renovation Allowance scheme is one of the few remaining good opportunities for maxing your tax position. Is it true that you can get up to 100 per cent tax relief on the amount invested? And what exactly are these schemes? How do they work? What are the upsides? Downsides?

In this climate, it is a relief to see one potentially attractive tax allowance come through unscathed from recent criticism