Matthew Lynn Says Retail Banking Needs More Competition: Video Bloomberg columnist Matthew Lynn talks with Rishaad Salamat about opportunities for new players in U.K. retail banking.(Source: Bloomberg)

Banks Have More Bite When They’re Allowed to Bark: Matthew Lynn Sherlock Holmes once solved a mystery by concentrating on “the dog that didn’t bark.” In the story “Silver Blaze,” the detective’s point was that sometimes it is more useful to look at what isn’t happening than what is.

Tiger Woods’s Sponsors Should Forgive and Forget: Matthew Lynn There are few sights as ridiculous as a big corporation wrestling with a moral dilemma. In the weeks since golfer Tiger Woods was embroiled in a marital-infidelity scandal, his sponsors have been hitting him into the rough.

Next Decade Will Be Good One for Stock Investors: Matthew Lynn Even the most practiced soothsayer will struggle to make any detailed predictions for the next 10 years. It’s hard enough to know what will happen in the markets in January 2010, never mind December 2019.

Matthew Lynn Says 2010 May See Tax Cuts to Boost Economy: Video Bloomberg columnist Matthew Lynn talks with Rishaad Salamat about the prospects for 2010 including tax cuts, an Irish economic recovery and austerity measures in the U.K.

Eight Things for Markets to Watch Out for in 2010: Matthew Lynn No one can complain that the last two years have been light on drama. We had the worst financial crash in living memory, and some of the biggest banks in the world effectively came under state control.

Matthew Lynn Says Avoid Hedge-Fund Management Stocks: Video Bloomberg columnist Matthew Lynn talks with Mark Barton about the performance of publicly listed hedge-fund management stocks.

Hedge Funds Hold More Appeal Than Their Managers: Matthew Lynn As investors make a year-end review of their portfolios, they will see that after all the predictions of the demise of the banking industry earlier this year, most financial stocks have done pretty well.

Bonus Tax Has London Scoring Goal Against Itself: Matthew Lynn The bankers no doubt saw it coming. They’ve been lectured, harassed and demonized all through the past year over their role in plunging the world into the deepest recession of the last half-century.

Gold Isn’t the Best Protection Against Inflation: Matthew Lynn Economic chaos? The dollar crumbling? Central banks printing money like crazy? Probably the only real surprise about the surge in gold prices over the last few months is that it took so long to arrive.