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November 26th, 2023

#93 — Video: Pessimists Sound Smart, Optimists Make Money

Watch now on YouTube Video Transcript Hello and welcome back to the Plain English Finance YouTube channel. This is our second video in the new series we have started posting from November 2023 onwards. The heading of this video and today’s topic as you will have seen is: “Pessimists sound smar...

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November 16th, 2023

#92 — Video - The Key to Financial Freedom: Investing First Principles...

Watch now on YouTube Video Transcript Hello and welcome to the Plain English Finance YouTube channel. I’m Andrew Craig – Author of top-selling finance book “How to Own the World” and Founder of financial education website – Plain English Finance.com. In the last few years I’ve written three books and publishe...

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November 12th, 2023

#91 — Key Resources

0ver the years since founding Plain English Finance, we’ve had lots of people ask us about the “best” financial products and services. Often the “right” answer in terms of answering questions about such things will be highly subjective and depend on the person involved. That said, below we have listed som...

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August 3rd, 2023

#90 — Why do "pessimists sound smart..."?

My last article was entitled "Pessimists sound smart, optimists make money". Today I thought it might be worth looking in some detail at a number of the key structural reasons that pessimism can be so powerful. Whilst what follows may seem a little “off-piste” for someone ostensibly writing abou...

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July 18th, 2023

#89 — "Pessimists sound smart, optimists make money"

The quote in the title of this article is one of my all-time favourites, if only because believing it to be true can have a significant, tangible and positive impact on your life. Over the past few years I have more or less frequently described human progress as the most ...

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January 12th, 2023

#88 — "Start With Why..."

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December 13th, 2022

#87 — CLSC: Extension to IPO deadline

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December 6th, 2022

#86 — CLSC: Just over one week left to invest...

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November 29th, 2022

#85 — CLSC IPO: LIVE on the investment platforms

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November 18th, 2022

#84 — IPO Launch Survey

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