Here’s something that ought to feel stranger than it does. There is a war on a real one, with airstrikes, a naval blockade, and tankers ablaze in one of the busiest shipping lanes on earth, and yet this week the US stock market spent its time wandering up to record highs, apparently unbothered. If that
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Let me confess something. For years, the word “bonds” made my eyes glaze over faster than a wine list written in Latin. It sounded like the dullest room in finance: grey men, grey suits, shuffling grey paper, while the interesting money was being made somewhere with better lighting. Then I worked out what bonds actually
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Let me start with a number so large it stops meaning anything, and then I’ll make it mean something. The world now owes more than $350 trillion. Not billion trillion. Global debt of governments, companies and households together reached a record of around $348 trillion at the end of 2025, and by the first months
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There is a story about someone who changed jobs ten times in ten years, helping them reach the career they wanted. I read it twice. The first time, I wanted to cheer that grit, and grit deserves applause. The second time, a quieter question crept in and wouldn’t leave: whose ladder were you climbing all
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You spread your money across different things so they wouldn’t all sink at once. So why did they? I suspect I know what some of you have been quietly thinking this year, because I’ve thought it myself. You did the responsible thing. You didn’t put it all in one basket; you bought a bit of
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Gold wobbled. Crypto slid. But the money didn’t vanish; it moved. Following it is more useful than mourning it. Can I admit something slightly embarrassing? Early in my investing life, I sold a perfectly good, boring holding to pile into the exciting thing everyone at the time was breathless about. I don’t need to name
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Redundancy is frightening, and pretending otherwise helps no one. But I’ve stood in that particular fear, and I want to tell you what I found waiting on the other side. Maybe you’ve just had the meeting. The one held in the too-gentle voice, with the folder already printed, where someone who quite likes you explains
For years, cash in the bank earned you a polite nothing. That has changed, and most people haven’t noticed. Picture the drawer. Mine is a kitchen one, and for years it held a savings statement I could barely stand to open, a number that sat there earning what felt like a rounding error, quietly losing
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Two days in Washington will do more for your money this month than any company you own. Here’s why I stop and pay attention. I’ll say the unglamorous thing out loud. The most important event for your portfolio this month is not a product launch, an earnings surprise, or a tip your cousin swears is
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Everyone told you the tracker fund was the sensible, boring, diversified choice. In 2026, that quietly stopped being true. For years, whenever someone nervous asked me where to start, I’d point them somewhere reassuringly dull: a low-cost fund that tracks the whole market. Don’t try to be a hero, I’d say. Buy the haystack, not
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