Joe Kennedy always claimed he'd avoided the crash of 1929 by getting out of the market as soon as he noticed that even shoe shine boys were talking about hot shares. His logic was that as soon as everyone started piling into the market, shares prices would cease to reflect real underlying values and instead they'd bubble up right until the inevitable correction. In the same spirit, I think I see t...

The taxpayer has lost almost £900million on the value of its shares in Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group amid fears that the backlash against bonuses would damage their performance. Yah, I know, cheap shot, but wouldn’t it have been better to let Hester keep his shares?

Value of shares in RBS and Lloyds falls amid fears backlash against bonuses will damage their performance.

Labour's business spokesman Chuka Umunna reflects on the decision of RBS boss Stephen Hester not to take up his bonus of shares worth one million pound.

The Royal Bank of Scotland chairman, Sir Philip Hampton, has given up a £1.4m shares reward he was due later this year, the BBC learns.

Here’s your starter for ten in our weekend slot where we throw up an idea or thought for debate… Since the £963, 000 shares bonus for RBS Chief Executive Stephen Hester has been revealed there have been opinions pouring out from across the political spectrum. When Ed Miliband accused David Cameron of a “failure of

Nick Clegg’s Mansion House speech on “a more responsible capitalism” gathered publicity, particularly for his widely-reported call for employees to be given the right to ask for shares in the company they work for. I am still puzzling over how people can be given a right they already have. Anyone can ask for shares at

Jury hears tycoon secretly bought shares to support conglomerate’s stock price and expensive properties

In the trade-off between providing incentives and exposing workers to excessive risks, shares and share options don’t provide a happy medium, writes Tim Harford

Nick Clegg yesterday called on more British companies to offer shares to their employees, arguing it will improve productivity and unlock growth: “We don’t believe our problem is too much capitalism – we think it’s that too few people have capital.” (Also available on the BBC website here.) * You can read Nick’s speech in