Constable Confidential: AirBnB-ers Up in Arms Over Scottish Holiday Rental Laws

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Joining Constable Confidential today is Fiona Campbell, CEO of the Association of Scotland's Self Caterers. She explains how new Scottish laws have made renting out your bedroom harder or prohibitively costly, depending on where you live—that and much more.

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Photo Credit: Thomas Hosmer Shepherd , Public domain, 

via Wikimedia Commons

Photo Caption: Edinburgh from Calton Hill

Forbes.com: Times Running Out For College As Student Enrollment Dwindles

By SIMON CONSTABLE

For many people the cost of getting a degree is the biggest investment they ever make. It’s supposed to be a path to higher earnings, many experts say. Read more here.

 

Haverford College. Class of 1900, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons

WSJ: Financial Flashback November 2013 -- Twitter Goes Public

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Published exclusively in the print edition of The Wall Street Journal

WSJ: Where Are Commodities Prices Headed?

By SIMON CONSTABLE

China’s economy, war in the Middle East and a predicted El Niño are among the factors experts are looking at. Read more here.

Lady Maria Mine at Charters Towers, 1891.

Early diggings on the Charters Towers mining district. Makeshift shade for the miners.

Allom, H. B., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

#France: BUY Japan, Defence, Energy for the long wars ahead, @RealConstable, Kiplinger's Retirement Report @BatchelorShow

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

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State Archives of North Carolina, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons 

Photograph of a pilot and his aerial observer with the 278th Aero Squadron, 2nd U.S. Army Air Service, pictured seated in their airplane on an airfield in France during World War I (undated) [Photograph taken by or collected by Henry L. Graves].

CONSTABLE CONFIDENTIAL: Mid-east Update: Yemen Fires Rockets At Israel and Israel Braces for an Attack from the Lebanon

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

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Photo caption: soldiers in the Gaza Strip 1956

Photo credit: Boris Carmi /Meitar Collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Constable Confidential: U.S. Refuses To Offer Passports to Non-American Hostages Held in Gaza

By SIMON CONSTABLE 

Ben Weinthal joins Constable Confidential from Jerusalem to discuss his recent story about lobby groups urging the U.S. and other countries to give hostages held in Gaza citizenship.

So far, no country is offering such potential refuge.

Photo caption: Great Britain: The children of Polish Jews from the region between Germany and Poland on their arrival in London on the "Warsaw".

Photo credit: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-S69279 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons.

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