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Celebrating the 40th birthday of the pound coin
Tom Haynes wrote an interesting piece in the Telegraph the other day to mark the 40th birthday of the pound coin.
“The pound in your pocket is now wo…
2 years, 10 months ago
On career risk
Following on from my piece last week Tyranny of the Midwits, I was having dinner the other day with a friend who is a big cheese behind the scenes in…
2 years, 10 months ago
Talking Markets with private investor Danny Solomon
A one-hour interview with private investor Danny Solomon, discussing which markets we like and which we don’t … and a bit about Chelsea too.
This is …
2 years, 10 months ago
Collapse in slow motion
In 2004 James Turk and John Rubino published The Coming Collapse Of The Dollar And How To Profit From It: Make A Fortune By Investing In Gold And Oth…
2 years, 10 months ago
Comedian Simon Evans: PG Wodehouse and the Slippery Slope
Comedian Simon Evans joins me for a video interview in which we discuss the re-writing of Wodehouse and the nature of slippery slopes.
If you prefer t…
2 years, 10 months ago
Tyranny of the Midwits
The other night I did that thing on Substack: you follow one writer you like’s recommendations onto another’s and onto another’s and, before you know…
2 years, 10 months ago
The most important price in the world - what happens next?
Before getting started today, I just wanted to flag that Kisses on a Postcard won silver at the New York Festivals Radio Awards for best serialised p…
2 years, 10 months ago
Gold keeps on going up
The gold price printed its highest ever weekly close on Friday.
What do new highs usually lead to? Yup. More new highs.
Is it too late to buy gold? N…
2 years, 11 months ago
When the government stole 11 days
Today is April 6, the beginning of the new tax year In the UK. Odd that the UK tax year should begin on such an apparently random date as April 6, bu…
2 years, 11 months ago
The conflation of everything and the decline of intelligent conversation
I didn’t get involved in the Lineker wars, mainly because I had other stuff on, but the affair triggered a little moment of realisation in me. That i…
2 years, 11 months ago