America just approved its first crypto-backed mortgages. The idea is clever, the mechanics are seductive, and the risk is hiding in the second loan. July 2026 · Personal Finance Markets & Policy A young couple in Michigan have just bought a house without selling a single Bitcoin. And depending on how you look at it, […]
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Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and BlackRock have launched a rival stablecoin. The circle fell 17 per cent in a day. The fight is over something called the float. July 2026 · Money & Payments A consortium of more than 140 companies Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Stripe, Coinbase, BlackRock, BNY, Standard Chartered, Google and IBM- has launched
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Europe is hot, crowded and quietly rationing itself. The smartest travellers are changing their dates rather than their destination. July 2026 · Lifestyle Somewhere in Europe this week, a woman is standing in a queue that snakes around a piazza in thirty-eight degrees of heat, holding a phone above her head, waiting to photograph a
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The worst month on record for Bitcoin ETFs, a stalled bill, and an industry that has quietly stopped talking about price. July 2026 · Markets & Policy Bitcoin is trading around $62,000 this week. Last October, it touched $126,000. Anyone who bought at the top and a great many people did, because that is what
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Bitcoin fell below $60,000 this week, its lowest since 2024. Here’s why analysts call it crypto’s calmest crash yet. Bitcoin slipped under $60,000 this week, its lowest since 2024, and I could almost hear the group chats lighting up with that familiar dread. If you felt it too, sit with me a minute. I want
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Apple and Microsoft have just hiked prices by hundreds. The culprit isn’t greed; it’s the AI gold rush quietly reaching into your pocket. Here’s what it means and how to save money in a world where the price of everything keeps creeping up. Let me show you something that happened this week that most people
SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic a parade of giant companies are preparing to sell shares to the public. Before you get swept up in the excitement, here’s what an IPO actually is and how to think about it without losing your head. There’s a particular kind of electricity in the markets when the giants finally come
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After years of a handful of giants carrying the entire stock market, the cracks are showing. Here’s why that’s not the disaster the headlines suggest, and what it teaches us about how to start investing wisely. For most of the past two years, I’ve watched the market tell an almost embarrassingly simple story: a tiny
Britain’s sixth prime minister in a decade steps down. Let me tell you what it means for your money. I was watching this morning when, outside that famous black door at Number 10, Keir Starmer announced he was resigning as Prime Minister and Labour leader, the sixth person to walk away from that job in
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A French politician is already eyeing 2027, and markets price elections long before the ballots are printed. Can I let you in on something that took me years to properly understand? The market often knows the ending before the story’s even been written. I say that because a French politician just gave us a lovely
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