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France pays more than Greece to borrow
Greece runs a surplus, France can't pass a budget, and lenders have noticed. Also inside: the debt number that tells you more than net worth, and a contract clause worth 4% of your pay.
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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 John Turner. By one estimate, about a quarter of all members of Parliament did too. In the mid-1840s, half of respectable Britain was betting on the new
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The wealth record Europe missed
A $50 billion listing with $140 million in sales, a new investment account in Spain, and why long bonds had a bad September.
Personal Finance
Financial Life Simulator: Live 18 to the End in 30 Minutes
I built a free game that lets you live a whole financial life, 18 to the end, in about half an hour - then replays it with one decision changed.
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Most stocks lose to cash
An index that fired Volkswagen, a €5 fee aimed at your Temu basket, and a job market that's easy to keep and hard to enter - plus what £10 billion buys in a bank app.
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Rates up, oil up, Buffett out
A rate hike you'll feel on your card bill, an oil shock you'll feel at the pump, and the end of the Buffett era - plus the coffee chart that explains your grocery receipt.
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 to spend a little over 4% a year. Thirty years later, one of them dies with more money than they started with. The other ran out at 82
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A 3% raise in a 3.4% world
Three numbers that quietly moved your money this week - and why the ECB's latest hike is already sitting on Europe's mortgage statements.
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The EUR 70 saving that costs EUR 2,000
Why chasing a cheaper index fund can backfire, what Airbnb does with 12 billion dollars that isn't its own, and the trading habit two-thirds of young men regret.
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The year the rate cuts didn't come
A central-bank U-turn, a record fine that barely dented Meta, and record profits your paycheck never saw - four numbers that moved this week, plus the chart that shows what 'safe' really pays.
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 be safe for retirement, and a 30-year government bond pays around 6%, why bother with stocks at all? Just buy the bond, collect 6% forever, and skip
Personal Finance
Is it too late to invest at all-time highs?
You have money to invest. You open the app, look at the chart, and see a line that has gone almost straight up. The S&P 500 closed at 7,652.86 on 24 August 2026, a rounding error away from its own record. Some part of your brain