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Not Trump.

I see you've cunningly avoided the question I actually asked. The answer is, you'd have lost your shirt. And if you'd said to yourself "I'll delay my retirement for a couple of years, they're bound to pick up" They didn't. You need time, diversity and patience.

No, Billy, I'm repeating my disapproval of men who pretend to be women, and demand access to places and and events reserved exclusively for women. They are not women, and do not have that right.

Just for fun, imagine you'd invested a thousand dollars in world-famous Microsoft, back in January 2000, and sold them after ten years. Can you guess how you'd have done?

That depends what you invest in. Trump and MAGA acolytes have marketed some investment vehicles that are very profitable for them, and loot the unfortunate punters.

The 20% cash rebate is claimed by the pension company, basic rate tax, quite quickly after each contribution. I am retired now, but when I was making substantial pension contributions, I had to fill in a tax return each year, and got the higher-rate rebate paid to me by HMRC. I tended to make...

Speaking of which, I see that VWRP has almost exactly the same 5-year and 12-month performance as the whole world fund I showed yesterday. Edit See comparison. There is a small but persistent lag in Vanguard, which I think is more likely due to charges than to tracking error.

Bear in mind that if you choose a volatile vehicle, on the grounds that the price can change by 50% in a month, it might go down just as quickly as it might go up. "Up like a rocket, down like a stick" Apart from high charges, which you can be confident will be a drag on performance, you don't...

I would not approve of a person who did not have a cleft palette pretending that he did, and demanding to use the facilities provided for those that do. Like a man who pretends to be a woman and demands to use facilities provided for the exclusive use of women,

Dementia is a terrible scourge. Inside the Fuehrerbunker, Trump can believe, and say, anything,

Only if you are an insider dealer like Hegseth. Trade on Friday, then Trump makes some statement that rocks the market, then the Rubes are locked out while the markets are closed over the weekend.

If Trump tells you the sun is shining, get your umbrella. "Certainly though, we’re not seeing what President Trump announced just yesterday - that the Strait is "completely open and ready for business and full passage". At the same time, he also claimed Iran had already agreed to pretty much...

It's no surprise that highwayman believe Israeli propaganda. Which story to believe today? Trump or the IAEA? " Trump said in June that U.S. strikes had obliterated the programme. The IAEA has said it has no credible indication of a coordinated nuclear ⁠weapons programme." Reuters

I wonder what will happen when a Chinese or Russian ship goes through.

Fir not bring sufficiently subservient. The Fat Don models himself on The Godfather. If you think you have an agreement with him, it only lasts until he wants more. "George Parker in London and Sam Fleming in Washington Published APR 15 2026 Updated APR 15 2026, 16:27 Donald Trump has...

I'm told there is no 10 year period when the FTSE ended up lower than it started.

And here is a chart of the same items, but with performance running up today. You might look at this and be sorry you were not an investor. The losses now look insignificant. You can just see the 12-month performance figure of the pension fund near the top. Pensions are a good example of...

As a private investor, I have, over time, seen some peaks and troughs. Here is an example with a couple of big troughs. The blue line is a broad-based international fund in a pension scheme, that would normally be expected to be unadventurous and low risk. The other lines are major indices...

That's the advantage of having independent inspectors to verify the agreement was being respected. An advantage that Trump threw away out of spite.