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M&B serves up weak results

Pub group Mitchells & Butlers has seen its entire profit for the year wiped out by its derailed property joint venture. After a summer of rain and the smoking ban, it's been a pretty bad year in the pub trade – and for Robert Tchenguiz, M&B's intended partner in the venture, it's really been an annus...

House prices down – possibly

So is the UK housing market about to go pear-shaped or not? In the last few weeks we’ve digested various figures and bits of research from the market’s leading experts – including new figures from Halifax that point to a fall in house prices – and we’re still not really any the wiser….

More flexible parenting

MT has always championed flexible working – if done right, it can lead to a happier, better-motivated and more productive workforce. But the government’s plans to extend this right, announced yesterday in the Queen’s Speech, will have expensive implications for British businesses – so however noble...

Richest Briton ever was, er, French

We're used to thinking of today's crop of ultra-rich individuals - Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Ingvar Kamprad, Lakshmi Mittal - as being the wealthiest people ever to draw breath.

The infectious agent

It’s not often us journalists get to take the moral high ground. That is until estate agents come along. Then even we get to unleash the wagging finger at wave it at them, the only people who regularly rank below us in surveys of trustworthy people.

Greenspan warns on housing bubble

More doom and gloom on the housing market today, as former Federal Reserve chairman and economic guru supreme Alan Greenspan does the interview rounds to publicise the release of his memoirs.

Scotland picks up wooden spoon

Alex Salmond, the head of Scotland's newly elected SNP government, has an uphill task ahead if he is to fulfil his aspirations of making the country healthier, wealthier, and fairer.

Safe as houses?

It is time to think again about Stein's law - developed by the American economist Herb Stein - who once observed: "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."

Planning: untying the knot

While pressure groups want to rein developers back, many in UK Plc see the planning system as slow, bureaucratic and hostile to business. A Government report on whether it is actually stifling economic growth is expected soon. Can a fast but fair process be devised?

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