December 2020 - Page 4 of 6 - The Property Chronicle

Why investors are increasingly taken by European care homes

by Lydia Brissy | Dec 14, 2020 | Residential Investor, zLead Article

Investment into Swedish and German care homes between January and September 2020 has increased by 80% and 21% year-on-year respectively, according to our latest research. These two countries accounted for 42% (Germany) and 23% (Sweden) of the total investment volume...

The 222 to Tooting

by Paul Lowden | Dec 11, 2020 | The Storyteller, zLead Article

So, just as one is beginning to adjust to the reality that there will be no Christmas trip home to Britain this year, no family gathering under the exuberantly giant tree culled from a neighbour’s plantation, no bleary eyed brisk Downland ramble to the sea and back...

Citizenship-investors turn from Cyprus to the Caribbean

by Rupert Wright | Dec 11, 2020 | Investor's Notebook, zLead Article

Along with air miles and an agenda, a passport was probably the least useful accessory of 2020. For those of us as familiar with business lounges as we were with sun loungers, this has been an unusual year. But the signs, for passports at least, are that they are back...

No, Keynes did not ‘sit out’ the debate on eugenics

by Phillip W. Magness | Dec 10, 2020 | The Economist, zOtherDiversions

Biographers of John Maynard Keynes have a peculiar habit of treading very lightly around their subject matter’s involvement in the eugenics movement. The oversight is not for want of evidence. In one of his last public appearances before his death in 1946, the famed...

Modern monetary theory is playing with fire

by Ethan Yang | Dec 9, 2020 | The Economist

This article was originally published in October 2020. A new book by Stephanie Kelton offers insights into an increasingly relevant monetary theory, but these are dangerous ideas. Like it or not, Stephanie Kelton is an economist whose ideas are making a huge splash in...