One study suggests that there’s a clear link between working longer and dying younger. Better get reading and escaping.
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A few good reads from across the Web. Some people should read more 1950’s science fiction to develop a sense of imagination, as well as to appreciate the impossibility of making accurate predictions about the future, even when you earn a living doing it. The people to whom I’m prescribing a course science fiction (three [...]
An interesting memo from a US fund manager warns that markets are already getting over-excitable. Plus the rest of the week’s reads.
The threat of a new dotcom bubble busted (for now) plus the usual links great and small from around the web.
National Savings & Investments has put its inflation-linked certificates on sale again. Get them before they’re gone! Plus the week’s links.
How the commodity bull market turned on the toss of a silver coin, plus more good reading from around the web.
A great book if you want to find your inner ambitious investor, plus lots of other good reads from around the web.
We can’t get enough of pensions at the moment. But unfortunately, we’re not paying enough into them, either.
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.