What caught my eye this week. Unlike some vocal Monevator readers, I’m nearly all-in on the cashless society. I even have a long-running email thread with a few sceptical and long-suffering friends, where I goad them with statistics about cashless shops and restaurants, and stories about homeless people taking donations via their own QR codes. [...]
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Many Monevator readers tell us they’re feeling nervous about the markets. Me too. The perils on my personal Venn diagram of risks seem to overlap like unattended coffee rings. Notable brow-furrowers include: Vaulting US stock market valuations Big tech betting the farm on AI UK economic stagnation Government debt piles swaying like Jenga towers The [...]
The whole world in Goldman Sach’s hands, plus all the week’s best money and investing reads…