Author: The Investor

(Image: WRI) Like the vast majority of the 100 million bloggers in the world, I earn less than a dollar a day from my own blogs. That’s an average figure. Some days I earn more, many less. But it currently averages out to about a dollar a day. Blogging for…

Subprime silliness, nailed by two comedians back in 2007. (As opposed to being explained by the comedians who came up with sub-prime and were still defending it back then.) For non-UK readers, the chaps in the video are the always excellent Fortune and Bird, who often speak more the truth…

So about two years ago I got talking to a friend’s mother who had inherited Barclays shares, because I am the sort of nerdy person who talks about shares at dinner parties. She had no thoughts on the bank’s future. She simply owned a bit of it. I suggested to…