If there's one person as stupid as one can be, it's probably the cartoon president Trump. I'm just saying. I don't mean anything about it. I didn't even say it, actually. Mark my words! Right. So what's the story now? Trump has just imposed a new 10% tariff on about $200 billion worth of Chinese imports. While doing that, or okay, slightly after, Trump said that should China take retaliatory action against the U.S., he would immediately add ta...

The 2015 General Election might be over, but the post-voting analysis is still taking place between politicians and members of the media. Before the ballot boxes were closed, many of the country's online sportsbooks were split on which party may win the race for Number 10. Major outlets such as betfair were tentatively tipping Cameron to come out ahead, but few predicted that he would steal the vote in such a surprising way. What initially...

If the boom in Internet-related stocks around the turn of the year 2000 taught us anything – it’s that overly optimistic revenues from web-related phenomena are largely “castles in the air”. That’s one thing, though, if you’re trying to sell your already grossly over-priced shares to gullible investors who are treating their shares like a pyramid scheme – trying to pass them to the next hapless investor at a profit without getting their fingers burnt; but it’s quite another when state legislatures behave in basically the same way.