Judge orders ethics probe into Trump’s Washington golf course project

– The other day, an MMM reader stopped by and left the following comment on one of my older posts about the principles of FIRE: “While I still find some of MMM’s advice relevant, it seems like every FI blogger out there worked in tech 20 years ago, pulled down a 6 figure salary and…

The government is reportedly looking at increasing capital gains tax (CGT) rates to help those on the lowest incomes. The prime minister Andy Burnham and chancellor John Healey are understood to be mooting raising capital gains tax rates to as high as 45% to pay for a potential £3,000 hike to the tax-free personal allowance…

This Week It was a slow week for data (no offense, PMIs), so markets were once again focused on the artificial intelligence (AI) trade and developments in the Iran conflict. AI stocks sell off as mega-cap earnings beats aren’t enough to offset costs concerns. We got earnings beats from mega-caps SPCX, TSLA and META (after…

Key insight: Attackers have fired millions of attempts at the PHP2Shell flaws, but no U.S. bank or credit union has publicly reported a compromise. Expert quote: “You own the risk even when a vendor runs the system,” wrote Samantha Van den Broek of Crimson Oak Strategies, a compliance consultancy for credit unions. Overview bullets generated…

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What’s happening with British schools? British schools – and English schools in particular – are doing remarkably well. Results from the OECD’s 2025 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) were published earlier this month, and the UK is close to the top of the class among European peers. The closely watched comparative survey, which began…