Category: Business

Skin in the Game

I don’t like the expression ‘skin in the game’ but I cannot think of another way of putting it.

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Washout

I don’t get out much so I was very pleased to be invited to the Royal Box at Sandown Park this week; of course it is too good to be true. There has been an outbreak of equine ‘flu and all racing in Britain has been cancelled. Being more of an Eeyore than a Tigger… Continue reading Washout

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Whither Oil?

This chart is not slap-bang up-to-date. The price of Brent is now around $60. I never fretted unduly about oil prices; that was the advantage of being a broker.

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Premium Bonds

When I was a nipper my uncle gave me a £5 Premium Bond. As I recall, his thinking was that if the Good Lord wanted to be bountiful it would be a shame if he could only arrange it by having my mother, or similar, ironed out in an accident so I could scoop the… Continue reading Premium Bonds

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Darth Vader Kettle

When’s a kettle not a kettle? When it’s Darth Vader. I just couldn’t bear having a toaster or a kettle in view in the kitchen – they both looked so ugly. So first I found an achingly cool, black and chrome Dualit toaster and now I have a to-die-for Alessi kettle.

The Tulip

Tulips belong in Amsterdam. This Tulip is a proposed 1,000 foot tower to be plonked down next to the Gherkin in the City. I disapprove of the desecration of London’s Square Mile by greedy vertical developers and this one is the limit.

High Treason

Is it too soon to digress? Don’t muddle High Toast with High Treason; the former an agreeably astringent snuff but the latter is also to be taken seriously. In ‘the good old days’, the existence of which is very doubtful, the usual punishment for dabbling in the latter was hanging, drawing and quartering.

Ups and Downs

2018 is the first year since the inception of this website in which stock markets have had a wobble, so a good time to see how resilient my portfolio is when the going gets tough. Anybody can make money when markets are going up.

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Personal Assets

I had lunch recently with a friend and we like to examine the entrails of the financial markets. He has, correctly, been bullish about equities for the past couple of years when I have been preaching doom and gloom.

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investors chronicle

investors chronicle (sic) is a magazine for private investors published by the Financial Times. Each edition has a bewildering array of share tips and this blizzard arrives weekly.

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