Nick Louth is a freelance journalist, professional investor and author. He has a monthly column on the Financial Times, and is a regular contributor to the Investors Chronicle and MSN Money website. He is the author of the Bernard Jones diaries, and a thriller, Bite.
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A selection of
recently published articles
Investors: Six reasons for optimism in 2012
Being miserable about money seems
compulsory as we enter 2012, and the newspaper headlines confirm
it. No-one could blame us if we just pulled the covers over our
heads and waited for 2013.
Investing though is about running against crowds, seeing
opportunities where others see only problems. That brings us to
our first of six reasons to be cheerful this year.
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Lifting the lid on the Plain of Jars
The world’s most heavily bombed country, Laos, has a secret. Beneath a limestone plateau, littered with hundreds of neolithic stone jars, is a hidden underground city. For nine years Pathet Lao guerrillas hid in this complex of 480 caves from a rain of American bombs, and emerged to take control of the country.
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The huge financial volcano smoking away next to us
If you are worried about volcanoes, you should forget Iceland.
Right on Britain’s doorstep there is a smouldering debt volcano which threatens to tear apart the European single currency, ejecting weaker indebted countries like Greece, perhaps Portugal and even Spain, and turn all dreams of European integration and harmony into ashes.
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The
amazing power of money sent home
People have strong views about
whether it is good or bad for the host nation. For most migrants
going abroad for a better life means the chance to earn more
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