Finance · Investing · Habits The strategy that asks nothing of your nerve and everything of your patience. Here is a question that has cost more people money than almost any other in investing. When is the right time to buy? I used to obsess over the answer. I would watch a price, wait for […]
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Finance · Crypto · Infrastructure It has quietly touched nearly every share trade you have ever made. Now it is moving onto the blockchain. Let me introduce you to a company you have almost certainly never heard of, which has almost certainly handled your money. It does not advertise. It has no app you would
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Finance · Crypto · The Long View Ten thousand coins is not a market. It is a waiting room. I am going to say something that will irritate roughly half the internet: most of the crypto coins that exist today will not exist in ten years. Not just most of the tiny ones. Most of
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Finance · Investing · ISAs One of the most generous tax breaks in Britain, and one of the most quietly ignored. Let me guess. You have heard the phrase stocks and shares ISA thrown around, nodded along as if it were obvious, and privately wondered whether it is something you are missing out on. You
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Finance · Crypto · Regulation While half the world was still arguing about whether crypto was a fad, Japan was writing the rulebook. Here is a confession that only slightly embarrasses me. Years ago, I assumed the countries shouting the loudest about crypto must be the ones leading it. All that noise, surely, meant progress.
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Health & Fitness · Lifestyle · The Body That Carries The Life Nobody warned me my forties would ask more of me. Turns out I could ask more back. The barbell does not care what kind of week I have had, and that is precisely why I adore it. It is the one thing in
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Finance · Property · Real Assets Owning property does not have to mean a stranger’s boiler ruining your two in the morning. A friend told me, with the certainty of a woman who had thought about it for roughly four seconds, that property was not for her. Her evidence was vivid: a tenant ringing at
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Finance · Investing · The Way In The exciting trade is the one you remember. The quiet one is usually the one who paid. Can I confess something that still stings a little? In my earlier years, I had what I was certain was a brilliant idea. I put real money behind it, the kind
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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.
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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 all of finance — grey men, grey suits, shuffling grey paper, while the interesting money was being made somewhere with better lighting. Then I worked out
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