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...For now, at least, Goldman Sachs analysts don’t think there’s much to worry about....
...But just as one wouldn’t critique art by the rationale of whether you’d put it on your wall, I don’t judge fashion by what I wear myself. That would make a very, very boring fashion show....
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...But the other arguments don’t hold water. Of course risk has moved into the far less well-regulated non-bank sector post 2008....
...As it happens, Williams agreed with Dennett that a lot of what goes on in university departments of philosophy is “unhelpful, boring [or] sterile”....
...And today you don’t even have to take duration risk to earn income, if you don’t want to. You can get the same yield on the two-year. Why on earth would you own utilities?...
...I have a lot of back problems, so I need to do sports, which is very boring. My favourite app is Deliveroo. I don’t cook, so I’m a very Deliveroo person. It’s my speciality....
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...Boring, boring, then....
...In our survey of 2,000 pupils we found that high-attainers find maths less fun and more boring once they are in the first year at secondary....
...After all, why let journalists you don’t trust tell you about politicians you don’t trust? Meta says news now accounts for under 3 per cent of what users see on its biggest platform, Facebook....
...The original title was really flat, descriptive and boring. Like, academic boring. So I just emptied my mind and the phrase about birds came out....
...Don’t tweet that 60/40 retirement portfolios should include “assets” where it gleefully says “speculation is a feature, not a bug”....
...They may never again achieve their mission to be boring in our lifetimes....
...Sadly, no fancy charts: we don’t have much more data than we had before. We’d understand if you don’t want to read any further, but please do....
...And I don’t care about volatility enough to have a boring mix of equities and bonds as my main benchmark. No, the best returns historically for investors come from US equities....
...Bank earnings season has been boring so far. But don’t let that fool you. We’re still living in interesting times. One good read American big-box store sells lots and lots of small bits of metal....
...I thought my hometown was pretty boring, but I was always bemused by the Croydon hate. Maybe its postwar aspirations to rebuild itself as “mini Manhattan” were too pretentious?...
...Don’t mistake a moderate degree of commitment for innocuous outcomes. Don’t mistake apathy for being a bad citizen....
...(Doing that for the “boring out” group will make them even more bored and disengaged.) What do workplace wellbeing experts make of this analysis?...
...“Boring is good” is the investment mantra that I have recited in this column many times before. Like many passive enthusiasts, I don’t try to beat the market, but regularly buy a slice of the market....
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