Merryn Somerset Webb
@MerrynSW
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UK Wealth, Editor at large, Bloomberg. Ex Ed in C @Moneyweek. Ex Columnist/Contrib Editor @FT Opinions personal. NED: THRG and Schroder https://t.co/ojIBNzZwBO #SharePower
Joined August 2010
Why diamonds are useless but rubies and sapphires are ok. Why you should have a Turkish portfolio (50% gold, 50% equities). And why if you want to save on IHT you should marry someone you don't particularly mind on your deathbed/
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What do you invest in when you think things might get really bad? For one answer maybe look to the fate of the Romanovs. Getting rid of them should have been easy for the Bolsheviks: the Russian...
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SILVER RALLY: In the world of commodities, price records (in nominal terms) have fallen everywhere on the back of the industrialization of China over the last 25 years. By early 2024, only four major commodities still traded below their price peaks set in the 1970s-1980s.
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From the Crown Court's judgement in the Hamit Coskun case: "There is no offence of blasphemy in our law. Burning a Koran may be an act that many Muslims find desperately upsetting and offensive. The criminal law, however, is not a mechanism that seeks to avoid people being
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The UK has Net Zero. The Chinese are stockpiling oil.
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@MerrynSW And for all you lovely fellow Android users out there, here's the Spotify link (or take a jaunt to your local podcast emporium)
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40.5% pupils in Scotland were identified as having "additional support needs" (ASN). A non-ASN Scottish sixth former complains that it's unfair for the rest. 'When I walked out of my exam when time finished more than half the year were still sitting there!'
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UK housing .. it is downbeat stuff... https://t.co/oMjJEgXaiK
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It’s one of the clearest examples of a tax cut that would boost growth.
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Not sure this is how it works.
Gold bubble should prompt central banks to sell the metal https://t.co/KBk7J43AEl | opinion
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Silver’s falling , but not because new supply showed up. What’s really happening is liquidity breaking before inventory does. Dealers and funds are being forced to dump paper positions to meet margin calls. Futures are falling faster than spot, so the gap keeps widening even as
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Hey, New York — Brian thinks he's our new CFO. We gave him a stage to prove it.
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Bezos on the energy restrictions of AI. Via Yardeni. "We will be able to beat the cost of terrestrial data centers in space in the next couple of decades...giant training clusters … will be better built in space, because we have solar power there, 24/7. There are no clouds and
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Spain is now openly worried about voltage swings caused by renewables Although they tell us Spain's blackout wasn't because of renewables, "the conditions that led to it may be a persistent problem for the stability of Spain’s power network" Oops https://t.co/DtphGNzaOm
Spain blackout: In first 80 seconds, all generation losses were solar and wind In those 80 seconds, Spain lost 10% or 2.5GW of its 25GW But sure, solar and wind didn't cause the blackout (first gas-fired power plant dropped out right after chart ends at 12:33:20:100, 12a
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This is absolutely box office from @MerrynSW and @DominicFrisby Amazing listen. Congrats
Best timed pod ever. All you need to know about gold right now!
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Best timed pod ever. All you need to know about gold right now!
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Podcast Episode · Merryn Talks Money · 06/10/2025 · 44m
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The CIA is reading Dan Brown.
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If Kemi abolishes stamp duty what happens in Scotland. Where it is higher and devolved..
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Gold is now outperforming the Nasdaq over the last 5 years. Yes… read that again. 5-Yr Performance: 🟠 GOLD +112% 🔵 NASDAQ +98%
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A problem we face is whether the average quality of the professional-managerial class (or "elite human capital") is declining. Is the elite less competent? There is evidence of lower intelligence in recent decades of Class I and II in this British study.
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A 1kg gold bar. Real insurance is coins..
BREAKING: We're seeing record-breaking sales on 1kg Gold bars and 100g BullionStar Gold bars right now. We're restocking continuously...as soon as they arrive they're gone = demand that intense. This is a clear shift in investor psychology = not timing entries, just securing
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A tax that applies to only ten people. What could possibly go wrong?
A new report from the STUC on behalf of Tax Justice Scotland shows a meagre 2% tax on the 10 richest families in Scotland raises almost £500,000,000 Scotland belongs to us all. Not just the wealthy. Join our calls for a wealth tax now. https://t.co/ayuDLBoFjm
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NEW: It makes no sense for Scots to have a separate digital identity card. My latest column in @thetimes. https://t.co/CJl8iXq0Eh
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If John Swinney digs in his heels, each Scot will end up with not one but two digital identities and confusion over which services each covers
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