weekend reading

If kids wanted to learn about mortgages and how to calculate the APR on loans, the world would be a very different place.

An apology for the break in your regular scheduled service, and a good read from Jeremy Grantham leads this week’s weekend reading list.

It’s Easter – a time of new beginnings, spirituality, chocolate eggs, talking rabbits, and reading about investing in articles from around the Web.

A roundup of the budget roundup coverage, for anyone still awake at the back. Plus some other good reads from around the Web.

Three years on from the bear market low, and markets have roughly doubled in the US. Did you listen to the numbers or the doomsters?

It’s not really fair that Warren Buffett is a genius investor AND a compelling writer about investment. Thank goodness he doesn’t have a blog!

Warren Buffett says that gold has no value, except as something incredibly expensive that you can fondle. (Surely he’s thinking of my ex-wife, etc etc etc.)

Does it make sense to save up for a house instead of getting a mortgage? Maybe not, but one frugal mum in America writes how she did it. Plus more good reads.

Is a new era dawning for our venerable investment trusts? Plus some other good reads from around the Web.

Are you going to make some resolutions for 2012? Good idea, but will your future self be as committed to sticking with them?

That rich Chinese consumers like a bit of flash won’t come as a shock to anyone following the earnings of various leading brands. How depressing – for them.

Steve Keen thinks we need to write off all debts and deliberately bankrupt most of our banks. Just another weekend four years into the financial crisis…

A great explanation of why the Germans are stuck in the past and threatening their own future, plus some other good reads from around the Web.

With political posturing in Athens sending boy traders into a tizzy in London and New York, there couldn’t be a better time to ignore your portfolio and reading instead.