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Matthew Lynn

@mattlynnwriter

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Founder of the Crowd Investor newsletter. Financial columnist for The Daily Telegraph and Money Week, and the author of the Death Force thrillers

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3 years
@chriscurtis94 @OpiniumResearch Where could you possibly find 11% of people who have an 'unfavourable' view of Gareth Southgate!
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8 years
No many seem to have noticed, but the collapse of sterling is over....
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7 years
Smart of Labour to impose a Robin Hood tax as we leave the EU. That will really help the competitiveness of the City.....
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3 years
I have a feeling that about about 8.00 this evening might be a good time to call all those helplines that usually put you on hold for a couple of hours
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8 years
The #DeutscheBank crisis could take down Angela Merkel - and the euro. Me in the @Telegraph -
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8 years
The real problem with negative interest rates? They are a stealth tax
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9 years
Just one of those evening when you are glad the UK didn't join the euro #Greferendum
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8 years
The Deutsche Bank crisis could take Angela Merkel down – and the Euro via @telebusiness
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3 years
@PhilAldrick @_BenWright_ This is probably a sign that we have reached peak casual...and the suit is about to make a come back.
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4 years
Thanks
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4 years
@telebusiness @mattlynnwriter Thank you for highlighting this to your readers. 25 years in business, providing jobs, paying taxes and contributing towards society - I am lost for words as to why a Tory Chancellor would elect to #ExcludedUK Directors from parity support schemes.
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8 years
FTSE up as Brexit date confirmed. I thought the markets were meant to hate it....
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7 years
Pay for single market access? We should ‘Just Say No’ via @telebusiness
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9 years
France bans sales from shops except for twice a year - http://t.co/TXMaLiSYzu. I guess that is what last Thursday saved us from.
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3 years
Drove my daughter up to Durham this week for Uni. Not sure I picked the best weekend for a 600 mile round trip.
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2 years
As I argued on Thursday I think people are underestimating how much Credit Suisse will end up costing Switzerland...
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9 years
Great to see Althorp by @cspencer1508 in the Top 100 in the US #Kindle store today - . Another @EndeavourPress hit...
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8 years
Germany’s trade surplus is a threat to global stability, and must be fixed via @telebusiness
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8 years
You'd think at least Nissan would help out the die-hard remainers by shifting production to France or something.... #Nissan
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7 years
Great to see Blenheim by @cspencer1508 Top 100 in the US #Kindle store today - . Another @EndeavourPress hit...
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7 years
Loving Briliant Light, the new album by the mighty @Dannythechamp . Best track? The Circus Made the The Town. But it is all great... #music
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9 years
#AprilFools jokes don't really work on Twitter. Can't really tell them apart from the normal stuff....
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9 years
The Labour Party. The gift that keeps on giving - for Tories that is. #JeremyCorbyn
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5 years
Just got my 12-year daughter to cut my hair. This is getting serious....
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4 years
Getting snowed in used to be sort of exciting. Now is just like every other day...except whiter
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8 years
Why we should follow Iceland - and abolish tax for a year. Me for the @Telegraph -
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2 years
Most people working today have never experienced tax cuts. Taxes are things that only ever go up. I wonder what they will make of it....
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4 years
I am thinking of launching a SPAC to buy up all the SPACS that are now worth less than the cash on the balance sheet. If anyone wants to chip in £100m DM me....
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3 years
Boris Johnson is the new Disraeli. A slightly dodgy, cash-strapped, but patriotic One Nation Tory, who also writes. And Disraeli was one of the most successful politicians of the 19th century. Simple really.
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6 years
If I was running Apple I'd pay whatever it took to get a Friends Reunion on my new streaming service #AppleEvent
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8 years
@rhysam Which Talking Heads song was about the 'myth of Soviet danger'? Just wondering....
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9 years
The eurozone can’t survive another banking crisis
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9 years
Forget Greece, Portugal is the eurozone’s next crisis http://t.co/ri5zvqwpen
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2 years
My garden is so dry even the weeds have stopped growing.
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Matthew Lynn
8 years
The real casualty of Brexit: reputations of economists who predicted doom
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8 years
Great to see Act Of Vengeance by @MichaelJecks Top 100 in the #Kindle store today - . Another @EndeavourPress hit...
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Matthew Lynn
4 years
If each French vaccination takes this much ceremony it is going to take a long time to jab everyone!
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Jean Castex arrive à l'hôpital militaire Bégin pour se faire vacciner contre le Covid-19
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9 years
Why Greece should leave the euro. Me in th @Spectator_CH - http://t.co/deQ9cIb3Ji #Grexit
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4 years
Booked my vaccination today. Yay #vaccination
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10 years
Why British interest rates will never go up again http://t.co/qeVjFbAAFG
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8 years
After Brexit and Trump, it’s time for Davos Man to admit defeat
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8 years
@rhysam Road To Nowhere would have been a good song about the Soviet system!
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7 years
@borghi_claudio Thanks. If you have anything on it in English, please send it to me....its a really interesting idea.
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2 years
Any chance of HSBC buying Credit Suisse before the end of the week #CreditSuisse
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11 years
Stodgy Netherlands is nation that’ll blow up euro - Matthew Lynn's London Eye http://t.co/WujOBUeJSi via @MarketWatch
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9 years
Corporate Social Responsibility has become a racket - and a dangerous one | via @Telegraph http://t.co/8YlwTxU0zc
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7 years
Relaxing in beautiful Montenegro...
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4 years
Couldn't we get some reaction shots of Nicola Sturgeon as Alex Salmond gives his evidence.....
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1 year
Well, at least we are not in Turkey. They had a 6.5pc rise in interest rates today.
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5 years
Is anyone else getting irritated by 'Don't Forget To Finish' e-mails from Netflix. The reason I didn't finish watching a film was because it was rubbish...not because I forgot to....
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Matthew Lynn
8 years
Forget #Brexit . That is not what determines the UK ecomomy - start-ups are. Me in the @telegraph -
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3 years
Amazing birthday cake from my lovely daughters.
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4 years
I got the AstraZeneca jab this morning and I have been really hungry all day. Just saying.
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3 years
@edcumming Er, get the one thing out that he needs, and leave the rest? Works for me.
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5 years
I have to admit I am slightly sorry to see John McDonnell depart as Shadow Chancellor. He sure was an easy target for a column...
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8 years
Starting to look like the EU made a big mistake in not conceding more to the UK on free movement. Another Merkel mistake....
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Matthew Lynn
10 years
How to help the self-employed - me in the @Telegraph - http://t.co/QgMB2YGu5E #economy
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3 years
No Covid deaths in England today, and just 1 in the UK. Yay! Surely we are beating this thing.
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10 years
Italy slipping into deflation - http://t.co/nOlzUQGo9f. Bad news for a nation with 126% debt to GDP ratio #euro
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7 years
Loving Swift Street, the new single from the mighty @Dannythechamp ....Looking forward to the album #music
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2 years
Impressive cake from my gorgeous daughter Leonora
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Matthew Lynn
12 years
What next in #cyprus ? The EU will back down. It's only 5.8 bn. Not worth a collapse. But it may cost Merkel the election.
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Matthew Lynn
8 years
Love this. Even after the Black Death, the English were speculating in property -
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Matthew Lynn
10 years
If the govt wants to raise more money, it should cut taxes. Me in the @Telegraph - http://t.co/WQ3f0a9lNk #Economics
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8 years
It's high time Britain took a serious look at investing in marijuana via @telebusiness
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5 years
What was I doing 40 years ago today? Running down to the record store in Clapham Junction to buy London Callling on the day of release of course. Still the best bit of pocket money I ever spent.....
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7 years
Just gave my daughter a tip. If you happen to find yourself PM, don't call a snap election....
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2 years
The defence of Mariupol is going to make a fantastic film one day.
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8 years
The biggest threat to global financial stability? Germany. Me for the @Telegraph -
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6 years
When you have kids 2 years apart no one ever mentions that 16 years later they will be doing A Levels and GCSEs at the same time....
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9 years
Self-driving cars will kill the auto industry
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9 years
Crowdfunding is good for our economy, so we should be able to live with a few failures | via @Telegraph
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9 years
It is in Warsaw not Athens that the march of the euro will be halted | via @Telegraph http://t.co/TlakWWywkY
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4 years
@Mij_Europe True. It is an odd paper these days. It did the same to the UK over Brexit, viewing it just as an extension of Trumpism. Now it is turning on France.
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4 years
These must be the most important stats in the world right now. The vaccine works. Covid: Israel's vaccine rollout linked to infection fall
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8 years
Has the economy crashed yet? Now that we've set a date for A 50 I mean....
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3 years
It seems a bit odd that so many passionate anti Brexiteers are also very angry about the European Super League. I thought they liked that sort of thing.
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Matthew Lynn
10 years
The odds of Greece leaving the euro have never been higher http://t.co/y8MTxKYt0q
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7 years
Macron wants a 'European Agency For Disruptive Innovation'. Seriously, you couldn't make this stuff up. That's, er, what entrepreneurs do..
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8 years
Britain must back the IMF to free Greece of its punishing austerity  | via @telebusiness
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3 years
My lovely daughters have made cakes. I think that will do the trick. It's coming home. #EnglandvsItaly
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4 years
If by any miracle the Oxford vaccine works, it is going to make a heck of a Netflix series....
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7 years
The money is running out across Europe. Me for the @Telegraph -
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2 years
Nigel Lawson was by far the best Chancellor of post-war era.
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8 years
If the EU can't do a trade deal with Canada, it can't do one with us. Me in the @telegraph -
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9 years
Surely the news that Greece made plans for an alternative currency is yet another step to a reversible euro - http://t.co/XlBR9vQXVQ.
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4 years
@AllieRenison @telebusiness No, didn't agree with that argument. It is good to have that perspective even if you don't always agree
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4 years
Lovely pic. From the map behind her is that the District Line? And if so is she about to get stuck between Earl's Court and South Ken....
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Julie Christie on the Underground, 1965 - David Hurn
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8 years
It’s not just Brexit — Greece, Spain, France are also on the brink
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8 years
There's a dot com bubble - we just haven't noticed. Me in the @Telegraph -
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9 years
Why the British Hugo Chavez will be good for the economy http://t.co/cZgztK8Wr6
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9 years
Thirty years today since London Calling was released. And still no one has made a better record.....
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3 months
It is insane how hard it is to cancel a subscription to The Economist! I make it a rule to always try and support other journalists, and certainly not to criticise them, but really a company can't just take money out of someone's bank account at will @TheEconomist @zannymb
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