MoneyWeek roundup: How to invest in 'Deficit Britain'

James McKeigue highlights the week's best pieces from the MoneyWeek team, including: how to protect your wealth from Britain's growing debt crisis; a bizarre opportunity in eggs; and Merryn Somerset Webb's Olympic blasphemy.

This week brought an unpleasant surprise for Britain's chancellor, George Osborne. The latest figures show that public finances fell off a cliff in July. Public sector borrowing is around £9bn more than it was at this point last year. And the government added to its debt in July when economists expected it to record a £2bn surplus.

So in Wednesday's Money Morning, Phil Oakley investigated how bad the situation really is and what investors can do to protect their wealth.

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James McKeigue

James graduated from Keele University with a BA (Hons) in English literature and history, and has a certificate in journalism from the NCTJ. James has worked as a freelance journalist in various Latin American countries.He also had a spell at ITV, as welll as wring for Television Business International and covering the European equity markets for the Forbes.com London bureau. James has travelled extensively in emerging markets, reporting for international energy magazines such as Oil and Gas Investor, and institutional publications such as the Commonwealth Business Environment Report. He is currently the managing editor of LatAm INVESTOR, the UK's only Latin American finance magazine.