If you follow markets at all, you know something happened in Wyoming in late August, because Jackson Hole always makes the news. What almost nobody outside crypto circles noticed is that a second, genuinely consequential gathering happened in that same corner of Wyoming ten days earlier, and it was arguing more or less the opposite […]
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At the CFA UK Annual Investment Conference 2026, the industry conceded something useful: the biggest obstacle to good investing is not information. It is behaviour. The Professionals Just Admitted the Real Problem Every so often an industry says something true about itself, usually by accident, and it is worth catching when it happens. On 9
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Fifteen thousand people, two days and a resort in Dubai. TOKEN2049 has become crypto’s barometer. Here is what the 2026 edition suggested about where the industry is heading. Crypto Grew Up in Dubai This Year Picture a five-star resort on the Dubai coast, taken over entirely for two days by an industry that barely existed
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Five thousand ordinary people spent a Saturday in Islington learning to invest. Here is what the Master Investor Show 2026 revealed about who is actually building wealth. Five Thousand People Gave Up a Saturday for This There is a particular assumption I want to dismantle, and the Master Investor Show is the cleanest way to
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A full day in London spent on the least glamorous word in finance. What the tokenisation summit was really selling was a quieter door into markets that have always been kept locked. Events · Crypto 7 July 2026 · London Picture a room of bankers, lawyers and policy people, talking with genuine intensity about the
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Six hundred events in a Welsh market town. What Hay 2026 was really selling was an hour of undivided thought. 21–31 May 2026 · Hay-on-Wye, Powys Hay Festival’s chief executive describes it as “part Glastonbury, part Davos”, which is the best description of anything I have read this year. Eleven days. Six hundred events. A
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A man ran a marathon in under two hours. Meanwhile, 59,830 people finished the same course, and the average one took four and a half hours. 26 April 2026 · Greenwich to The Mall Somewhere around Canary Wharf, an eighty-eight-year-old man called Harry Newton was making his way toward the finish. Thirty-six other people over
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Here’s something I’ve learned from twenty years of watching markets: they can handle bad news. They can even handle a disaster. What they cannot handle is silence. Certainly, they can price. Even in a crisis, they can price. What they can’t bear is a man walking into the most-watched room in global finance and politely
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Here’s a truth the rest of the world is only now catching up to: when a nation with real wealth decides it wants a seat at the future table, it doesn’t queue politely for one. It builds the table, hosts the dinner, and quietly picks the guest list. That’s what I watched unfold in the
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In June, ten thousand people travelled to a conference hall in the Czech capital to celebrate a single, stubborn refusal: the refusal to be distracted. There are more than twenty thousand cryptocurrencies in the world today. BTC Prague, Europe’s largest Bitcoin gathering, declines to discuss 19,999 of them. Bitcoin only. No altcoins, no shiny new
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