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In the ten years since the dotcom shares peaked and then began to plunge, everything and nothing has changed.

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Turn your gold into cats

Now the jokes are appearing, how many lives does this bull market have left? Well, one analyst says today gold could go up five-fold.

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The banks are both too big to fail and too profitable to be allowed to continue in their current state.

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Don’t kill yourself over a job

France Telecom workers are killing themselves in despair at their working conditions. Why didn’t they quit?

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If you’re over 50 and you’re resident in the UK, console yourself on both fronts with the news that you can put more money into ISAs from today.

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The UK’s next Prime Minister will inherit a country spending way beyond its means, and as deep in denial as any spendaholic

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I’ve got a confession to make: The economic meltdown of 2008 was thrilling in some twisted way, and I miss it.

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Weekend reading: Hitler the blogger

Revealed: Hitler is making even less money from his financial blog than me! Plus the usual good money and investing article links.

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A bad time to fear the worst

Lots of people have been left on the sidelines by the stock market rally, hunkered down in a bunker waiting for a bomb that’s already exploded.

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The 18th Issue GEB from NS&I offers limited returns for the risks of seeing no gains. I wouldn’t go near it.

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Why would a company want to set back 500 years of history to offer its own bonds directly to the public?

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Just a quick note to say I’ve caught up with 2009 and decided to enable comments across all posts on the site. I’ve manually gone through and marked them all to allow comments, but if I’ve missed one out and you’ve got something burning to share on it, please do let me know. I’ve also [...]

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People with an anti free trade agenda are going to try to hijack the financial crisis to increase regulation elsewhere.

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The markets are still far below a level they first reached in 2000. They may go up or down, but don’t doubt we’ve suffered enough.

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I have been run off my feet recently, and unfortunately my $1 $2-a-day blogging habit has suffered as a result.

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Today I read an article from Alan Steel, a fund manager. Here are the key reasons why he thinks the March low means equity investors could see great returns for years.

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