by Town Close Financial Planning | Oct 8, 2023 | General News
Talk about “doubling down” (see here) – it seems the Bank Of England believes that the problem does not lie with the impossibility of accurately forecasting anything, but with their forecasting (in)ability. There may well be varying degrees of incompetence at... 
by Town Close Financial Planning | Oct 4, 2023 | General News
Nobody Nobody knows. The simplest, truest, only fact about the future. Act accordingly? Imagine if… …you physically couldn’t think about the future or past. What then? How much more of the present would be apparent to you? That’s what... 
by Town Close Financial Planning | Sep 27, 2023 | General News
Doom mongers are two a penny they always have been and always will. In inflationary times they now seem to be four a penny – just about the only thing you get more of! The thing about the doom-mongers is that they are, on average, wrong. The evidence is simple – the... by Town Close Financial Planning | Sep 20, 2023 | General News
Approval Self-esteem and validation are two ends of the same stick called “approval”. Be careful which you seek. Seeking validation (approval by others) runs the risk of losing your self-esteem (approving of yourself). Only you can give your... 
by Town Close Financial Planning | Sep 20, 2023 | General News
Rupert Spira: The world is not what we see; it is the way we see it. Morgan Housel: The world appears in accordance with the point of view we bring to it. We filter everything we see; we change, tweak and blur it. It is no longer the truth. It is the same for... 
by Town Close Financial Planning | Sep 17, 2023 | General News
Three things I enjoyed reading and I’m sure you will too: Ben Carlson – One Year Returns Don’t Matter: The only benchmark that matters is you being on track. What happens over 12 months is irrelevant to that. Tim Harford – The eternal Google...