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Big Short investor Steve Eisman goes hard on SoftBank 

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The Big Short’s Eisman bets on more pain for SoftBank – the Japanese investment giant with a big stake in WeWork and the owner of Arm Holdings Steve Eisman was played by Steve Carell in a 2015 film about short selling The investor is now betting SoftBank shares will fall after WeWork bailout The Japanese … Read more

Are Premium Bonds a good gift for hard to buy young family members?

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Tea and crumpets. Cricket. Constantly talking about the weather. Premium Bonds. All of these are unequivocally British and the last has captured the imagination like no other financial product since launching in the 1950s. When I interviewed Agent Million some seven years ago – the person whose job it is to deliver £1million jackpot news … Read more

Novelist Erin Kelly on how hard it was to break up with her therapist

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This time last year I was a mess. The book I’d just finished had felt more like a nervous breakdown than a work of art, and I’d delivered it nearly a year late. My immune system had all but collapsed and I wasn’t sleeping. Everything felt impossible, from the responsibility of raising my two children … Read more