There is an estate agent’s window on my local high street that I walk past most days, and over the summer I started noticing a small change. The boards had not changed much. The little strips across the corners had. Reduced. Reduced. New price. By the end of August it looked less like a shop
Asking Prices Rose. Selling Prices Are Another Story. Read More »
When was the last time you waited to get your money back before selling something? If the answer is recently, you are about to become very interesting to the Bitcoin market. On 21 September, bitcoin rose above 87,000 dollars, its highest level in eight months. On the way, it crossed a line that matters more
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I watched a line of ants in my garden one morning this summer, from a gap by the back door to a crumb that one of my children had generously left under the table. I should have reached for the cloth straight away. Instead I stood there with my tea and watched them. What struck
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What happens to a currency when its central bank raises interest rates? If you answered that it should strengthen, you are in good company, and last week you were wrong. On 18 September, the Bank of Japan raised its policy rate by a quarter of a point to 1.25 per cent, the highest level since
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The most important number from the Federal Reserve last week was not the new interest rate. It was twelve, the number of voting members who agreed with it. On 16 September, the Federal Open Market Committee raised its benchmark rate by a quarter of a percentage point, to a range of 3.75 to 4 per
The Fed Just Raised Rates. Here Is Who Pays. Read More »
Can I confess something? The first time I sat down to properly learn how markets work, I read the same page four times and couldn’t tell you a single thing it said. It was not that the page was difficult. I had forgotten how to learn. School had been a long time ago, and everything
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Hyperliquid did not throw a launch party. It just kept winning. The most dominant trading venue in crypto right now spent almost nothing telling you it existed. No celebrity endorsement, no stadium naming rights, no advert during the big game. While the loudest exchanges of the last cycle were busy buying attention, a small team
The Exchange Nobody Marketed Just Ate Half the Market Read More »
The maths is simple. The paperwork is what puts people off. A friend messaged me last week with a screenshot of her trading app, three ETFs half-typed into the search bar, and one question underneath it. Which one is actually the S&P 500. That single question is the whole problem with this corner of investing.
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Crypto has spent years asking Washington for one thing above almost everything else: a clear rulebook. This month it may finally get an answer, or another delay dressed up as progress. What is actually on the table The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, known as the CLARITY Act, is the bill meant to settle who
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I missed three training sessions this week. I felt bad about every single one, which is a strange use of energy, because the sessions themselves would not have cost me nearly as much as the guilt did. Where the guilt actually comes from It is not really about the missed hour. Research on exercise habits
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