Author: The Investor

Having rich friends may make you richer. But as ever, don’t count on that making you any happier.

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The Bank of England governor is going to raise interest rates and put millions out of work… but it’s all in a good cause.

What caught my eye this week. War pioneer and on/off conqueror of Europe, Napoleon Bonaparte, supposedly said he’d pick a lucky general over a good one. Investors might take the same deal. Alas, there’s apparently no evidence that Napoleon stated the preference that’s famously ascribed to him. Which is a…