If kids wanted to learn about mortgages and how to calculate the APR on loans, the world would be a very different place.
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Being a well-known grouch in everyday life, I frequently surprise myself with my optimism when writing Monevator, and this plan to mine asteroids sounds exciting to me.
An apology for the break in your regular scheduled service, and a good read from Jeremy Grantham leads this week’s weekend reading list.
If you find it hard to envisage yourself as a pensioner — and so begrudge your future self another penny — you’re not wise, but you’re also not alone. Plus other good reads from around the web.
It’s Easter – a time of new beginnings, spirituality, chocolate eggs, talking rabbits, and reading about investing in articles from around the Web.
A new information from The Munro Fund aims to collate UK passive investing fund stats in one place. Plus lots of other good reads 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.
Is it time to get out of what increasingly looks like a bubble in bonds? Plus some 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?
US investors have been piling into the market again, just as its indices hit multi-year highs. At least Monevator readers are a bit savvier.
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.)
A free lecture course from a top university to help you catch up with Charlie Munger. Plus other good reads from around the Web.
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.
One blogger explains why governments are more likely to pay off debts with a healthy dose of inflation than to raise taxes. Plus other good reads from around the Web.
Is a new era dawning for our venerable investment trusts? Plus some other good reads from around the Web.