Nick Louth is a freelance journalist 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
Fuel prices to go up and away
Higher VAT on petrol in the Budget put a few pence on a litre this is merely a small step on an inexorable rise in fuel costs that will last for many years. It’s really a matter of supply and demand.
While western demand is subdued because of the recession, surging Asian economies are gulping down oil like there was no tomorrow.
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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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