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How much further will bitcoin fall?
Like Brexit, Trump, what a woman is, the BBC or vaccines, bitcoin has proved itself one of the battlegrounds in the ongoing culture war.
Some people …
4 years, 1 month ago
Copper faces "an impossibly tight future"
Further to last week’s piece on, “acquiring the right investment psychology” (if you missed it here is the link) I enjoyed listening to Bloomberg’s O…
4 years, 1 month ago
Tax Water Not Work
As regular readers of my stuff will know, I’m of the view that a society should be designed around direct democracy and very low levels of land value…
4 years, 1 month ago
Sometimes you gotta have faith
I remember having lunch once upon a time with a fun manager of the old-school, refined Englishman variety.
He rather took me aback towards the end o…
4 years, 1 month ago
My mission to revive my father’s long-lost WW2 musical masterpiece
I have an odd professional life. I double as a financial writer and a comedian. It seems to work. I specialise in unacceptable songs. You’re bound t…
4 years, 1 month ago
Think the oil price is high now?
Back in 2016 we learnt a new word. “Lustrum”.
It means a five-year period. Given how long decades are, I can’t believe it doesn’t find more use.
Even…
4 years, 1 month ago
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 …
4 years, 1 month 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 …
4 years, 2 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, …
4 years, 2 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 …
4 years, 2 months ago