The stock market has fallen, but should you care? Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
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The mathematics of bad luck, the paucity of US property returns, and the rest of the week’s good reads.
Good reads from around the Web. I sometimes suspect a few of the great and the good read Monevator. And maybe they do – but if so they are currently paying more attention to the comments. Or at least the debate in the comments in my recent post about high house prices. Long story short: [...]
Whatever happened to this experiment to replace traders with rodents? Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
Something has to give in the crazy UK property market. Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
As I write, the future of Scotland and the rest of the UK hangs in the balance. And doesn’t the market know it…
A rant against rants against passive investing, plus worthwhile reads from around the web.
A fairy tale about the stock market that’s as real as what is generally reported, plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
Good reads from around the Web. One of the many reasons I despair of the average private investor is because of their ridiculous attitude towards short-selling (that is, betting that a share will fall in value). There’s a limited argument that can be made against short-selling in banks at times of financial crisis, because of [...]
Sometimes the stock market does really badly for decades. Don’t let it get you down! Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
Are you crazy enough to want to be a great investor? Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
Draw the curtains, put your feet in a bucket of cold water, and enjoy a few good reads.
If everything looks expensive, is anything really expensive? Plus more good reads from around the Web.
Get up to speed on index investing with a collection of insightful quotes. Plus the rest of the weekend’s reads.
In which our hero overcomes a flaky Internet connection to bring you a bunch of good reads from around the Web.
Retiring early isn’t all ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
The stock market is still going up. People are still worried. What, if anything, should we do in response?
One UK blogger argues that a 3% rate is much safer for UK investors than the oft-quoted 4% rule. Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
The market is a forest and we’re all lumberjacks, hunter-gatherers, or possibly termites. Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
A new-ish UK personal finance site gets a plug, plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
Are we in a new tech bubble? A few early pricks suggest we might be. (I meant pricking of the bubble… What did you think? No!)
Some posts on Monevator have over 500 comments now, and (gasp!) are worth reading. Plus other reads for the Bank Holiday weekend.
Has the campaign to truly simplify the cost of investing won a victory we’ll see in 2017? Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
You don’t need to read big books on investing to get the basics, as these one-line pearls prove. Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
The UK market doesn’t look expensive, but even if it did you’d be wise to react with care…
It’s five years since the market bottomed, and contrary to the scary headlines the investing has been easy. The next five could be tougher…
The Accumulator’s debut on Radio 4 Moneybox, plus some good articles from around the web.
Robert Shiller on why he thinks the Efficient Market Theory is a “half-truth”. Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
Attention would-be wealthy pensioners — time is running out to lock in the £1.5m lifetime allowance. Plus lots of other good reads.
Beating the market is really hard. Yes it is. Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
Warren Buffett (and index investing) is beating hedge funds again — this time in a straight wager! Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
Why The Wolf of Wall Street will recruit The City’s next generation, plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
Good reads from around the Web. Investing can be very simple, provided you don’t want to beat the market. Since most people will fail to do that anyway, the conclusion is that investing should be simple for nearly everyone. Once upon a time that was okay in theory but difficult to put into practice. Between [...]
It’s nice when a billionaire admits he was lucky as well as talented and hard working. It’d be even nicer to have the opportunity to be so gracious oneself!
Gold bugs are in retreat, but schadenfreude is a dangerous delight. Plus the week’s other good reads.
How a 17-minute Flash Crash conspired with Jim Cramer to kill off an old-timer of an investing principle. Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
A video on trying to spot a bubble in advance, plus the rest of the week’s good reads. Merry Christmas!
Bill Gates’ best books about business plus some other good reads from around the Web.
Good reads from around the Web. Still to buy all your Christmas presents? You’ll get no sympathy from me if you intend to shop on foot like some Luddite from the 1980s. Why not go the whole hog and hit the High Street on a horse? Me, I’ve done all my Christmas shopping online via [...]
Good reads from around the Web. I miss novels! Sure I can put a tea towel over Twitter, turn the other cheek to Facebook, and watch less funny cat videos on YouTube. That ephemera is easily ignored. The issue is what my girlfriend calls “side reading”. I find it impossible these days to read a [...]
Jeremy Grantham says the market is heading for a fall. He has a good track record, as far as it goes, but market timing doesn’t.
UK property prices have made princes out of paupers and muppets out of mavens. Prices look crazy, but who’d bet against them?
Why hedge funds don’t use index tracker funds, plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
Why do people engage in the equivalent of reading entrails and pondering tea leaves when it doesn’t even give you useful information?
Good reads from around the Web. I spent Friday at the London Investor Show. It was far busier – and very slightly more diverse – than a few years ago. Sure, there was the usual preponderance of 50-something men with rucksacks and 20-something salesmen in suits. It’s always good fun watching the latter trying to [...]
Never let it be said again that the Scandinavians lack a sense of humour, or at least a strong sense of irony.
Why DIY investors must still fight for survival and spread the word. Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
The case for bonds in your portfolio, again, plus a rant from me about comments and the rest of the week’s good reads.
Rebalancing is counter-intuitive but there’s no denying the mathematics – it can boost returns. Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
A meeting with your maker — or The Man, at any rate. Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
Jack Bogle is still going toe-to-toe with the fund management industry at 84. Good for him! Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
Yet more praise for Warren Buffett, this time as a saviour of some US pensions. Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
Brainy investors usually make bad stock pickers, because most people do anyway, but a group of them are even worse. Plus the week’s good reads…
Changes to make it easier to create ‘self-indexing’ ETFs are likely to be used to confuse and profit from unwary investors. I know, I’m shocked too. Not! Plus the week’s good reads.
Good reads from around the Web. After we updated the lazy portfolios for UK investors the other day, some readers asked good questions about how the different strategies had done in terms of returns and risk over the years. I say good questions partly because I don’t have good answers! But I do know the [...]
If you’re going to titillate men for money for 15 years, you might as well make a million out of it. Plus other good reads from around the Web.
Crime has crashed, though you’ll hear much more about the gyrations in the stock market and the economy than this good news. Plus more good reads.
The tour de France isn’t won in a day, and neither is your investing challenge. Plus the week’s good reads.
How the first half of 2013 has had thrills and spills for everyone, except sensible passive investors who simply check in 3-4 times a year. Plus some links, if any of you are hiding from the heatwave.
Why it might be time to rename ‘dumb money’ the smart money, and for the smart money to get new jobs. Plus the week’s other reads.
How bad could things get in retirement — and how good could it go? Two UK bloggers add their two pence, plus other good reads.
You may not have got a pay rise, but at least you’ve got a new name for your pain. Plus the week’s good reads.
Why that economist knows much more than you but it’s not very useful, plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
Rare video footage of a young Warren Buffett, plus the rest of the week’s interesting investment articles.
Jeremy Grantham says the next couple of decades will determine the fate of our current incarnation of humanity. Unlike most nutters on the Internet, we should listen to him.
Here’s another thing you’ve got in common with monkeys (besides that thing you do where you pick lice out of your partner’s hair…)
I delivered newspapers at 6am and opened envelopes until my fingers were bleeding from paper cuts. Today is a doddle by comparison!
Exhausted by a week in politics, let’s dive straight into the links and other reading this Saturday.
It’s Easter, so I suggest you have a think about how your living your life, as well as how you’re investing your money. That’s my plan anyway. With eggs on.
Good reads from around the Web. A research company called Mebane Faber wins my lesser-spotted post of the week award this Saturday for You are not a good investor, its disassembling of the vanities of stock pickers. ((Full disclosure: I am such. For my sins.)) First, the article calls up a fascinating study – The [...]
Let’s hope politicians remember the golden rule in the Budget next week: “First, do no harm”.
Perfect is impossible when it comes to passive investing. Learn why, then spend the time you’ve saved reading these other good articles.
How the 20 biggest companies in the UK move the market, plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
Gold demand is falling. Is it a temporary hiatus, or is the End of the World off, after all?
Larry Swedroe offers a masterful walk through why and how to construct a passive portfolio. Enjoy!
Good reads from around the Web. Regular readers will know I’ve long warned people not to get scared out of equities over the past few years. With the emblematic US Dow Index touching the “psychologically important” (i.e. headline spouting) 14,000 level on Friday, I can’t help remembering some of my own articles: Why I buy [...]
Should focus more on the achievements of buisiness people and less on their philanthropy? Probably not, but it’s a provocative thought…
Everything the Federal Reserve thinks is minuted. That means it can’t revise history to sound smarter. Beware those who do.
It’s dark, wet, and rainy. 2012 is almost done, but there’s still time to do a bit more reading to get you financially ready for 2013!
The ex hedge fund managers says you should put down your spreadsheets and pick up your shovels in 2013.
Good reads from around the Web. The behemoth of low-cost investing is having a great year, reports Bloomberg’s Businessweek: Vanguard is not just having its best year ever. (It shattered that record in September.) The $130.4 billion in deposits in mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that Vanguard has taken in through November is the most [...]
Good reads from around the Web. I know my co-blogger The Accumulator has a cult following among Monevator readers, but I never expected to see a financial product bearing his own name. Of course I can’t be sure the money-amassing Accumulator device was named in honour of our parsimonious comrade-in-arms, or even inspired by him. [...]
Some great books to buy for Christmas for those much-loved people in your life who don’t *yet* get your enthusiasm for investing. Plus the week’s good reads.
Investing is a great habit to adopt, but saving and not spending is even better to get from an early age.
Mr Money Mustache is going to end up bigger than Dave Ramsey, Suzie Orman, and all those other people we’ve never heard of.
Could seemingly good news about rising stock markets be stressing you out? Yes, if you watch it on the TV, according to academics.
One reason Josh Brown is an excellent writer and pundit is because he doesn’t prevaricate.
Michael Burry, hedge fund hero of the sub-prime meltdown, isn’t feeling any better about the future. Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
The fund manager that wants to be less highly-rated, for the good of his investors. Plus the usual good reads from around the Web.
Newsflash: It’s not hard to see what someone has done, and then say that if anyone did it, they’d have got the same result.
In a slight tweak to your regular scheduled programming, from this week I’m breaking out the passive posts from the active ones.
Investment advice married with advice on marriage in an interesting new video, plus good reads from around the web.
Ben Bernanke is going to pump $40 billion a month into the US economy until unemployment comes down again. It’s not cricket, say some of my friends. No, but it’s probably baseball.
One of the best UK financial bloggers has just released his first book. It’s less than £4 on Kindle, and I’m sure it will save you *at least* £4!
Every now and then someone pats me on the head and tells me I don’t understand that the real smart money is in hedge funds. BAD IDEA.
Monevator has been nominated for a blog award, and we’re a little bit chuffed. Plus the usual good reads from around the Web.
Many will find a listing of the top 50 safest global banks a contradiction in terms. I feel their pain, but this widespread disdain may present an opportunity.
One thing that has reliably put me off investing in gold over the years is people who invest in gold.
Bill Gross says stocks are dead (again). Who knows, he may well be right, but his maths is wrong. Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
The initial results of the government’s assessment of what makes us happy, plus good reads from around the Web.
The best bit of banker bashing you’ll read all year — because it’s so eloquently put, rather than a rant — plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
What about the workers? Why buying less and working less is probably not a solution to wealth inequality.
A plea to ignore the big fat zeros you’ll see next to some of our Like buttons on our pages – or better yet to Like them yourself. Plus the usual good reading!
Capital Gains Tax is a tax on success, and perhaps the most frustrating tax of all to pay, especially when just buying a house and sitting in it is better rewarded.
Last week we were bombarded with readers alerting us via email to the cost-grenade lobbed into the midst of their best-laid plans.
Does the Greek self-delusion give us a glimpse into our own culture of entitlement and denial back home in Blighty?
Online needs to be at the forefront of the financial services industry, because that’s where its customers are.
If kids wanted to learn about mortgages and how to calculate the APR on loans, the world would be a very different place.
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!
Iceland’s bonds are back from the brink, as today’s headlines are tomorrow’s fish and chips wrapping. (Though don’t try wrapping your scampi in this roundup!)
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.
Are you going to make some resolutions for 2012? Good idea, but will your future self be as committed to sticking with them?
There are plenty of reasons to recommend index funds, beyond just their low fees. Plus other good reading from around the web.
Steve Keen thinks we need to write off all debts and deliberately bankrupt most of our banks. Just another weekend four years into the financial crisis…
If you’ve ever wondered what a ‘public service admin professional’ makes then The Guardian has just the run through for you. Beware: they may make more than you do!
A great explanation of why the Germans are stuck in the past and threatening their own future, plus some other good reads from around the Web.
Europe stepped to the brink this week, but happily it swerved away from leaping into the abyss. Even I got scared, and I’m a Panglossian permabull by modern standards.
With political posturing in Athens sending boy traders into a tizzy in London and New York, there couldn’t be a better time to ignore your portfolio and reading instead.
Read all about it: Executive pay is soaring, based on little but their ability to capture a great salary from compliant boards and shareholders.
If history is any guide, the next decade could see an 11% per year return from shares. Are you invested accordingly?
More Steve Jobs, then a slew of investing and money articles from around the Web. I regret not writing a gushing post about Steve Jobs earlier this week. Instead I prevaricated and made the point that Steve Jobs’ legacy could be to put off would-be entrepreneurs who didn’t happen to be a once-in-a-generation genius. That [...]
Everyone loves to hate traders, and here’s a fake who nevertheless riled the world up. Plus the week’s best reads.
Some good reads from around the Web. I don’t know how many of you buy shares listed on the Alternative Investment Market, but I am sure that if you do you’ll find the ban on holding AIM shares in an ISA as annoying as I do. The theory is that AIM shares are too risky [...]
Some nice news for Monevator, and plenty more money and investing stories from around the web.
A New York Times blogger puts the boot in the ‘lost decade’ myth, plus plenty of other good money reads from at home and abroad.
Steve Jobs has lived a life beyond most of our wildest dreams, but the thing that inspired him most can inspire every one of us.
Everyone seems to agree it’s a good time to buy shares. But weirdly, plenty of people are selling…
Great money and investing articles from all kinds of websites from around the Internet.
S&P downgrades the U.S. as the fourth worst week of all-time for the FTSE 100 ends… Saturday mornings were made for reading all about it!
I’m finally worried by the sovereign debt fears that have stalked the world for three years, but my concern is in the small print.
They said they hoped they’d die before they got old – but they didn’t, and here’s the graph to prove it. Plus the week’s good reads.
I’ve gone fishing, almost literally, in the Med. Here’s a few things you might want to read in my absence.
Charlie Munger might have a name fit for a rapacious capitalist, but he’s got a philosopher’s heart.
Why you should drive a poor car if you want to get rich, followed by the rest of the week’s best reads.
Some musings, then the weekly reading links. I am a sucker for academic papers on happiness and money, and whether watching The Apprentice every Wednesday can do much for either. True, I’m not sure they’re of much practical use. I’ve got a hangover this morning, making me question exactly where I’m going with my life, [...]
One study suggests that there’s a clear link between working longer and dying younger. Better get reading and escaping.
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 [...]
A funny article from Oblivious Investor neatly skews the profusion of exotic and unwarranted ETFs. Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.
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.
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.
So this is Christmas, and how have you done in 2010? Here’s a good few books worth reading to explain it all, plus some decent Web reads.
Rising inflation – should we be worried about it and is there anything we can do about it? Plus the weekend links.
Some musings on the investing landscape, followed by the weekly links. Those who tout connections between the past performance of the stock market and the date on the calendar will be excited as 2010 closes. Already we’re promised a ‘Santa Rally’ – the historical data suggests shares go up much more than down in December. [...]
My weekly roundup of good money and investing reads from across the web. The great British housing debate has run for my lifetime and I suspect it will run for many more to come. Are houses too expensive? Are they actually cheap? Is it fair? Should we even care? We don’t debate the price of [...]
At a time of media hysteria over Ireland, Portugal, austerity cuts, and market gyrations, it’s time to refocus on investing basics.
What’s a fair price to pay for an asset that has historically increased around 0.2% per annum in real terms? A lot less than it’ll cost you to buy a house, for a start.
The economy grew at a cracking 0.8% in the last quarter. When will the doomsters pick up their ball and go home?
Some more politically incorrect ranting from yours truly – better out than in, eh? Plus some great reads.
Something for the weekend. No, not that kind of something – rather, some great money reads. (Don’t know what the other is? Ask your grandfather.)
The other reason the welfare system needs rolling back. Plus links to some interesting reads from around the web.
The economy keeps growing, the stock market keeps rising, the tills are ringing, and the bloggers are still moaning.
Britain is officially the worst place to live in Europe (if by official you mean “as discovered by a PR firm for a comparison website”).
Here’s a thought for Saturday – it might be rational to play the lottery. If you don’t agree, there’s plenty else to read.
I’m not a particularly clubbable person (unless you’ve got a big stick) but Monevator has nevertheless joined the Money Mavens.
My regular Saturday musing, followed by the links to some great articles. Felix Dennis makes no secret in How to Get Rich about his pleasure in sending large cheques to the Inland Revenue to settle his tax bill. An old Lefty, Dennis doesn’t mind doing his considerable bit for those who haven’t had the opportunity [...]
I’m up in Edinburgh for the festival this weekend, which means just a few choice cuts for you to peruse this Saturday.
The gloomsters and the doomsters have rarely been in such blatant opposition. Someone’s reality must be wrong.
The living is easy on a canal, but unfortunately like everything else on water a narrow boat wants to sink – and only money stops it.
The new Kindle is a tempting toy, but it’s not the cheapest way to get your reading fix. Plus some good reads on the Web.
Americans have been heading to the hills to pan for gold. These are strange times, but they’re probably drawing to a close.
A quicker than usual weekend reading due to travel chaos. (Self-inflicted travel chaos, unfortunately).
My regular roundup of the week’s best reads. The US blogger Barry Ritholtz says US houses are still significantly over-valued. That would be bad news for everyone, given that the US consumer is vital for a global recovery. Unlike in the UK, house prices in the US did actually go pop a few years ago. [...]
I won’t sing when I’m winning, and I won’t cry when I’m down. Investing is for the long-term, and speculation has a bad track record.
Annuities, pensions, interest rates, and mortgages – all improbably more exciting than England’s performance in the World Cup.
The best of the week’s money blog posts and investing articles from the media, plus a rant about Obama.
If BP suspends its dividend, it won’t just be oil barons who’ll feel the pain. In fact, UK shares will look much more expensive at a stroke.
Tory economic liberals are up in arms about the Lib Dem inspired capital gains tax hike. Let’s hope they quash it!
The regular roundup of interesting articles to read, including two diversions into science.
Charlie Munger is a genius, and you should read everything he write. Time leftover? Read me! Even more free time? Read these other great posts.
Should you regret not making and marketing the gizmo you invented? Plus the rest of the week’s best links.
Where are we at, and what looks cheap? Dangerous questions that this post blindly stumbles into. Plus this week’s links.
A huge but wildly waffle-riddled update on my personal portfolio and recent activity. Plus the week’s best links!
Why is cleaning your sewers because you don’t want to – and do you really want to send them home? Plus the week’s best links.
You don’t need to make a fortune to die rich – more evidence from the front-line of frugality. Plus the week’s best reads elsewhere.
Will somebody in Conservative HQ please turn on the lights? The UK electorate badly needs a clue, but not as much as its politicians.
Why you’ll see several ‘once in a lifetime’ buying opportunities if you make it to your pension. Plus the weekly linkfest.
An interview with me! (Bet that’s got your weekend off to a great start, right? What? Not so much?) Plus many other good articles.
The CEO of the world’s largest bank earns 2% of the salary of the world’s greediest banker. Should we go headhunting for Jiang Jianqing?
A new site to contain my wilder speculations without spoiling Monevator, plus links to lots of interesting blogs and articles.
My blog post of the week is a great review of Fidelity’s advisory service in the US. Plus the week’s other links to interesting articles around the web.
Property investing is the focus of my blog of the week, plus there’s the usual links to other great articles.
John Lanchester does money, plus links to the best of the week’s financial and money articles from the blogs and newspapers.
My love of compound interest revealed, plus links to the best of the week’s financial and money articles from the blogs and newspapers.
Falling share prices of banks in the US in the wake of Obama’s mooted regulations show savvy investors know their profits are excessive.
One US writer finds his best hope with a financial adviser is to know more than the professionals, which surely defeats the purpose.
An excellent treatise on the value of happiness and the relative worthlessness of money kicks off this weekend’s reading.
The bargain basement market of March 2009 seems an age ago, but what will happen in 2010? Nobody knows but everyone has an opinion.
Men earn more than women, but is that through choice rather than sexism? Links to all the best of the week’s financial and money articles.
Links to all the best of the week’s financial and money articles from personal finance blogs and UK newspapers.
Eagle-eyed readers may have spotted I only wrote one post this week, and also that today’s round-up is 24 hours late.
A nice selection of blog posts and other financial articles for you to read while I dice with death on an Eastern European motorway.
Gold hit new highs again this week. A simple case of supply and demand or an investment mania with all the makings of a bubble?
Some maudlin thoughts about illness and death to go with your Saturday brunch, followed by some financial articles worth reading.
Chartists expecting a new bear market aren’t just mystics – they’re mystics with short memories.
A rant about overpaid bankers, plus my usual weekly money and investing blog and newspaper links.
Neil Woodford is selling his oil giants, believing the cost of exploration and extraction will eat up their cash while the economy stumbles.
If even Warren Buffett can admit he sometimes doesn’t understand a complicated investment, then surely we should, too.
Revealed: Hitler is making even less money from his financial blog than me! Plus the usual good money and investing article links.
A quick introduction to this week’s suggested articles, as I’ve got to get outside – the sun is shining and it looks like the Great British Indian Summer of 2009 is underway.
This week we saw more positive signs that the world was moving out of recession. Even the gloomy French were forced to shrug and admit things looked better.
This week provided plenty of laughs for those of us baffled, bemused and bored by the general public and big media’s approach to capitalism. The cause of all the fuss were bank earnings, which in the UK has become a political football. Commentators didn’t know whether to be pleased UK banks were making money, or [...]
Video interviews with Yale fund manager David Swensen, plus my usual links to some great reads in the financial blogosphere.
I am almost fully invested, so you might think I’d be glad to see the Dow over 9,000 and the FTSE tickling the 4,600 mark.