More Gold than a man could wish for now in UK

Hi folks,

there’s gold in them thar hills! And now it seems it’s coming here in great wedges – no I’m not talking in finance or investing terms regarding the traditional safe house against a treacherous stock market; Gold, but one of the greatest treasures on earth and you can come too. However after you read what follows you might not want too…

Scotland Land of Opportunity for Criminal Millionaires?

For goodness sake, yet more facts and figures guaranteed to set tongues wagging. This time it’s news which won’t have given Alex Salmond much inspiration to take on the ‘Irish Tiger’ entrepreneur label that Ireland bears with pride as he seeks to launch his own version of the ‘Scottish Lion’ to beat them. Only problem is there is a twist. Yes the Scottish economy is incredibly healthy – the black economy that is, and it’s making literal millionaires out of budding Scot’s criminals. Oh dear…

World’s richest man stumbles

Whoa – hold on there a minute!  I really must be out of touch, seems that the idea of Bill Gates being the world’s richest man is well out of touch – he’s been overtaken by not only a Mexican Cellular tycoon Carlos Slim Helu ($62.2993 billion) but now by an Indian capitalist  Mukesh Ambani ($63.2 billion) who’s even just built his wife a $1 BILLION home!

Yikes – things worldwide economies are moving so fast now, it’s exciting just trying to keep an eye on all the sudden changes. One things for certain though, for at least the past 3 years we’ve been talking about investing in India because their economy is lit by rocket fuel and  shows no sign of abating until at least beyond 2050. With the desire for rampant consumerism sweeping this vast nation who’s populace is even predicted to overtake that of China’s by 2050 according to a new BBC report quoting the Population Referance Bureau (PRB) – we here in the West better watch out, these guys are good… really good.

Bye the way, did you notice who is the 5th richest on the list creeping up on Warren Buffet and Bill Gate? You guessed it another Indian – Lakshmi Mittal ($50.9 billion). Looks like it’s not only Bill who’s taken a little stumble, has Warren too?

Welcome from William George – Dunfermline, Scotland

Hi folks,

William George here just wanting to say hello and welcome you to my new blog.

Hopefully on a reasonably regular basis I’ll be commenting on all manner of topics from football to finance and all regions between. If you want more ’serious’ information about finance then my main website www.williamgeorgeifa.co.uk will probably help you more.

Otherwise, stay tuned here for some (hopefully) lively chat on anything that takes my muse or what seems hot news I think we all should really be aware of – especially when it comes to finance or anything that would affect your pension plans and retirement goals.

I look forward to speaking with you very soon – live and direct from jolly Dunfermline in the Kingdom of Fife!