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Archive for June, 2007

plonkee bought a house

Well, after a few short panics I’m the very proud owner of a tiny little two bedroom terraced house.
The panics were caused by my solicitor’s assistant who didn’t notice that the money had transferred overnight to them to pay for the property. She then phoned me three times and left urgent messages for me at [...]

step right this way…

A reminder that the first every plonkee money competition is currently running. There have been some excellent entries so far and so if you’d like to join in, please read the rules here.

randomness and insurance

I’ve recently been thinking about randomness. I like randomness in general, but this has been prompted in particular by my reading of Fooled by Randomness by Nassem Nicholas Taleb. The message (?) that I got from the book was that randomness plays a massive part in the ability of traders to make money. That is [...]

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