Deciding how to react to a crisis like a potential flu pandemic, a natural disaster or war is one of the most controversial aspects of stock market investing. Many panics, whether they affect the whole market or individual companies, turn out to be false alarms. Even those scares that have substance often turn out to [...]
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Every week I read a large number of personal finance and investing articles. Here’s my latest weekly shortcut to the best. Just a quick one today: I’m off out to help a friend move his boat around the waterways of London! Good reads from the financial blogosphere The Psy-Fi blog says Buffett and Munger’s contrasting [...]
I guestimated in my rant about the new 50% tax rate introduced in the UK Budget yesterday that I wouldn’t be much better or worse off because of the various changes. A quick skim this morning through the various online calculators that have popped up proves the point: I will be just a couple of [...]
I had a lot of fun today covering the UK Budget over on the Monevator Twitter channel. It was fun racing other finance bloggers and the bloke who does the BBC captions to announce the news. There were two occasions though when I was late with my updates. Both times it was because I was [...]