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.
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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.
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
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.
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.