This is my latest Perspective column for Fund Strategy. Do you feel squeezed? If so how painful are you finding it? And is it likely to get better or worse in the foreseeable future? It is not surprising that the compilers of the Oxford English Dictionary recently named “squeezed middle” the word of the year [...]

This is Monday’s Perspective column from Fund Strategy. The political debate about income tax must be one of the most peculiar intellectual clashes of these peculiar times. It boils down to the rich debating the rich about how much tax should be paid by the rich. It is hard to put a starting point on [...]