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On the beauty of redheads
Back in the early 1990s comedienne Mandy Knight did a show at the Edinburgh Fringe called, “Some of my best friends are ginger”. I always thought it …
3 years, 9 months ago
Don't fight the Fed
Not being a Fed-watcher, I have been rather slow to this particular narrative, I’m afraid, and it only really dawned on me last week as I was losing …
3 years, 9 months ago
The lesson leaders never learn: high taxes do not mean greater revenue
‘Due to our low tax policy . . . revenue has increased.’John James Cowperthwaite, Hong Kong Financial Secretary, 1961-71
Fourteenth-century Tunisian, …
3 years, 9 months ago
Money is language
You might call it the cable that changed history.
In the mid-19th century there were various attempts to lay cables across the Atlantic Ocean between …
3 years, 10 months ago
Why our instinct for gold is primal
Thousands of years before the dawn of civilisation, as prehistoric man hunted and gathered his way through the Stone Age, he came across 6 metals - t…
3 years, 10 months ago
How low will bitcoin go?
With the entire crypto sector crashing – I thought I should give you some thoughts on bitcoin this morning.
Needless to say, it’s not pretty.
At all.
Fa…
3 years, 10 months ago
The tech bubble has burst. But I still want a Peleton.
Did you buy a Peloton in the lockdown?
I know a couple of people that did.
I nearly did. I certainly looked at them online and lusted after one. But …
3 years, 10 months ago
Pay for what you use, not what you produce
There are about 65 million people in the UK and 60 million acres of land – almost enough, in theory, for an acre each. (It’s not quite that simple, o…
3 years, 10 months ago
If the US dollar keeps rising from here, it’s going to hurt
Stock markets have taken quite a tumble this past week or so, and there has been a great deal of noise about the end of the tech bubble.
Even with so…
3 years, 10 months ago
Avoid China’s stock market
I was lucky enough to attend the Students for Liberty conference, LibertyCon 2022, in Prague last weekend.
Oh, my goodness. What a beautiful city is P…
3 years, 10 months ago