MoneyWeek roundup: How to make money out of bad weather

James McKeigue highlights the week's best pieces from the MoneyWeek team, including: profiting from the bad weather; the accounting trick that sank Polly Peck; and what The Flintstones can tell us about today’s economy.

Here in England we love talking about the weather, especially if it's miserable.

"We've had the wettest April since records began, the wettest June since records began, and the wettest second quarter since records began," said Paul Hill in this week's Precision Guided Investments.

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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.