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A Tale of the 2020s

The disruption to global oil supply, coupled with ongoing uncertainty about the extent of AI’s impact on the labour market, has led the market to seek answers that don’t yet exist.

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THE STOCK MARKET (UPDATED MAY 2026)

The key benchmark you should care about is achieving all of your financial and life goals and not running out of money.

The Unimportant Numbers – 1 Month

Monthly figures are a distraction from your long-term goals, we’ll help you avoid the noise.

The Important Numbers – 30 Years

Investing in the Great Companies of the World has produced life-changing returns for the disciplined and patient investor.

RATIONAL OPTIMISM

The media is not a friend of the disciplined and patient investor. Whether it’s on TV, Print or Online, the media prefers to focus on short-term returns, market predictions, and negative news. Which is not suitable for a long-term investor.

Below are the stories, podcasts, and images which we wanted to share with you this month, which are uplifting, interesting and informative.

These links below will take you to articles on other websites.

Interesting News

We present the following as an antidote to the onslaught of negative news.

  • Humanoid Robots Race Past Humans in Beijing Half-Marathon
    Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed off their fast-improving athleticism and autonomous navigation skills as they whizzed past ​human runners in a half-marathon race in Beijing on Sunday, highlighting the sector’s rapid technical advances.
  • Tesla Supervised Self-Driving Software Gets Dutch Okay
    Dutch regulators approved the use of Tesla’s self-driving software with required human supervision on highways and city streets in a European first for the electric car maker, which hopes to see similar action from the rest of the European Union.
  • The New Jobs Being Created by AI
    AI created 640,000 jobs between 2023 and 2025 in the U.S., according to an analysis by LinkedIn of job posting data, including new white-collar positions such as head of AI and AI engineer. 

Further Reading

Here are some articles you may find interesting this month.

Listen & Watch

  • The Previous Week’s Newspaper
    Reflecting on a provocative idea from Nassim Taleb: If you want to break your addiction to the news, try reading it a week later.
  • How the Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life
    William Green is the author of Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World’s Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life. In this talk, he shares some of the most valuable lessons he’s learned from the best investors — lessons that can help us not only to become richer, but to think better and build lives that are abundant in the ways that matter most.



A Picture is worth 1000 Words

  • Every S&P 500 Company in One Giant Chart
    This visualization brings all 500 companies into a single view, with each sized by its share of the index and grouped by sector. It is based on data from Slickcharts as of March 30, 2026.
  • The Smartest AI Models of 2026
    The race to build smarter AI models is getting tighter at the top. This visualization ranks leading systems on the Mensa Norway IQ test as of April 2026.
  • Ranked: How Much People Save Around the World
    This chart ranks household savings rates across major economies using the latest OECD data. It reveals a wide gap between top savers and those struggling to set money aside. 


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