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Excellent reading from the Worldy Wise Web. Once upon a time, Black Swans were rarer than golden geese. But then Nicholas Taleb wrote his bestseller The Black Swan (not to be confused with the pouting Natalie Portman vehicle) and Black Swans have ever since been ruffling feathers everywhere. I have nothing against Taleb’s dark tome, [...]

The weather is too nice today to sit inside reading posts about money, but when the sun sets here’s a good list to turn to.

Thoughts on why the Great British consumer is finally on the run, plus good reads from around the Web.

The Japanese market looks cheap, and as long as the nuclear situation is contained, returns will likely be superior from here. Is it wrong to buy?

A quick look at why buying equities has proved better for your wealth than buying Apple products, followed by the usual weekly linkfest.

Some good money reads from around the web. I was going to focus this week on the truly bonkers ruling from the European Court of Justice regarding gender discrimination and financial services: Taking the gender of the insured individual into account as a risk factor in insurance contracts constitutes discrimination. This isn’t so much a [...]

Spring is almost here, but for now you can sit warm and toasty inside reading about investing and watching your battered garden through the window. (Just me?)

Some People Just Can’t Let The Financial Meltdown Go: Redux. Plus some good reads from around the web.

Love is in the air, and I’m not just talking about the ongoing equity rally. (Although, to be fair, I’ll still love that, tomorrow).

Some good reads from around the web. You can’t keep a bad idea down in the financial services industry – like Hindu vetala, the same ruses, obfuscations, and scams keep resurrecting in new forms to haunt us. Well, that’s if the service providers in question have any sense of irony. Clearly that’s lacking at The [...]

Dr Ros Altmann speaking buckets of sense on pensions, plus more good reads on money and investing from across the web.

The establishment reveals complete disinterest in stopping an investment scam, while I reveal some good reading for the weekend.

This week’s best post from elsewhere, plus more good links from around the Web. Anyone who read my post on house prices predictions may have sensed my enduring frustration with the London property market. If you thought cockroaches were hard to kill, you should try stamping out house price inflation in desirable streets in Zone [...]

The first links roundup of the year. Let’s start as we mean to continue, by concentrating on great posts from around the web.

Reflections on the year just gone and a look forward to 2011, plus a self-indulgent list of some articles you might have missed on Monevator in 2010.