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Real estate risk – a simple question?

by Malcolm Frodsham | Jan 20, 2022 | Golden Oldie, The Analyst

Originally published October 2021. Knowing what to ask is the trick to getting the right answer. In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a supercomputer called Deep Thought is asked to answer the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe and Everything. After 7.5...

Dangerous times ahead, keep safe

by Jonathan Ruffer | Jan 20, 2022 | The Fund Manager, zEditor's pick, zLead Article

When I was on honeymoon in Venice, I spotted a pair of Chinese dragons, one chewing a toenail and the other picking its nose. Smart shop, Grand Canal – my wife, Jane, and I set an upper limit on what we’d pay. We later walked out with the dragons having written a...

Rinse, repeat

by Ed Warner | Jan 19, 2022 | The Analyst

2022: the year of the sportswash. A city without snow and a state in the desert. Obvious places, really, to hold the Winter Olympics and football World Cup if you’re the IOC and FIFA. Welcome to 2022, the year of the sportswash. The principal outdoor...

The changing economic geography of America

by Richard Barkham, Matt Mowell and Eric Willett | Jan 18, 2022 | Golden Oldie, The Analyst

Originally published November 2021. Investment opportunity and political conundrum. The past 30 years saw the rise of coastal cities in the United States. New York, Boston, Miami, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle and perhaps most spectacularly, San Francisco. ...

How we raised the dough to go to Florida

by Garrison Keillor | Jan 17, 2022 | The Storyteller, zOtherDiversions

Freedom is a beautiful thing when you’re young, allowing kids who know they should be focused on the perils of global warming to instead be fascinated by the troubles of Britney Spears, but for an old guy it means a loss of direction as the people whose approval you...