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What caught my eye this week. Unlike some vocal Monevator readers, I’m nearly all-in on the cashless society. I even have a long-running email thread with a few sceptical and long-suffering friends, where I goad them with statistics about cashless shops and restaurants, and stories about homeless people taking donations via their own QR codes. […]
Many Monevator readers tell us they’re feeling nervous about the markets. Me too. The perils on my personal Venn diagram of risks seem to overlap like unattended coffee rings. Notable brow-furrowers include: This article can be read by selected Monevator members. Please see our membership plans and consider joining! Already a member? Sign in here.
What caught my eye this week. Working at the end of the age of publishing words has given me a lead on the post-LLM era. I saw early on how ChatGPT had mined the web for everything ever written – well-enough to spit out answers about anything. And as a writer I had more incentive […]
What caught my eye this week. One big driver of the thousands of young economic migrants who’ve come to Europe and the UK over the past decade is said to be the spread of social media. Now that the developing world can see – it all its influencer-filtered glory – how the West has been […]
What caught my eye this week. When I first began writing about investing on Monevator in 2007, I wondered when I’d run out of things to say. The basics of good personal finance can famously be written on a Post It note. At the same time, index funds were already mopping up retail investors’ money […]
What caught my eye this week. I read hundreds of investing-related articles to compile these Weekend Reading links each week. Far more than when I was just doing my own active investing research. I enjoy it. But I also wonder how much it skews my perception of the markets and investor behaviour. Hot takes and […]
What caught my eye this week. The serendipity was too perfect. I thought: I’d write about this on Monevator, but who would believe me? My girlfriend and I were on a visit last week to a picturesque part of Wales. Out of nowhere the blue sky turned into a thunderstorm (because we were in a […]