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Mass Effect, a $20bn loan, 400 layoffs

A broker that sponsors Ferrari prints its own loss rate. Plus where housing eats 40% of income across Europe, and what the dollar did to your US stocks.

1 Nov 2026
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You paid shrimp prices for ice

A bank app that went dark for a day, a lawsuit about what's really in the freezer bag, and why football clubs sell for billions while the leagues they play in lose money.

25 Oct 2026
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Google paid $2.7bn. Disney bid $20m

What was left of a chatbot unicorn after Google took the team, the airwaves that gave Verizon its worst day in 24 years, and a stock that listed at $43 and sold at $6.

18 Oct 2026
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Who is actually paying for the AI boom?

The Brontë sisters owned railway shares. So did Charles Darwin and the novelist William Thackeray, according to the historians William Quinn and

8 Oct 2026
Personal Finance

How you actually withdraw the money

Two people retire on the same morning. Same age, same 600,000 in the pot, same low-cost world tracker, same plan

16 Sep 2026
Personal Finance

Why not just buy 30-year bonds at 6%?

Someone on Reddit asked the question that a lot of people are quietly thinking. If a 4% withdrawal rate is supposed to

29 Aug 2026
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