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On raising money and distorted incentives
I was listening to an interview the other day with entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan, in which he argued that there are two ways by which you can raise …
3 years, 9 months ago
Gold: the disconnect between the price and what is happening in the physical markets
Today we turn our attention to the physical gold markets.
There is, as veteran dealer Ross Norman of Metals Daily puts it, a “disconnect between the g…
3 years, 9 months ago
Mind The Gap
I stumbled across this 2013 blog earlier today. I’m posting it because I thought you might enjoy it, and partly because it’s relevant to a thought pi…
3 years, 9 months ago
Is that it, then? Is the bear market over?
We’ve seen incredible rallies across the board this week.
After a worrying sell-off late in the day and into the close on Friday, the Dow and S&P500 a…
3 years, 9 months ago
The end of cheap money: is this finally it for UK house prices?
Back in 2007 comedian Susan Murray phoned me up with a question.
She was just arranging a new mortgage and she wanted to know where I thought interest…
3 years, 9 months ago
On PayPal, Toby Young, Bitcoin, Culture Wars and the Separation of Money and State
Bitcoin was built in reaction to all the money printing that went on in the wake of the financial crisis.
The Times’ headline “Chancellor on Brink of…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Look
About 25 years ago, I was giving a speech at my father’s 65th birthday party. There were seventy or eighty people at the dinner and, as Dad was a pla…
3 years, 10 months ago
Silver the cheap precious metal that could be set for a multi-week rally
US inflation numbers came in on Tuesday at 8.3%.
The markets were expecting something lower – after all, the oil price had fallen back, not to mentio…
3 years, 10 months ago
How to be happy
I’m as guilty of this as anyone, but many of us make life more difficult than it needs to be. Achieving basic happiness, or at least avoiding what de…
3 years, 10 months ago
Will Liz Truss as PM mark a turning point for the pound?
“Pound crashes to weakest level since 1985 in blow to Truss” ran the headline on the Telegraph website yesterday.
“The Bank of England had one job tod…
3 years, 10 months ago