Weekend reading: Poll proves taxing for portfolios

The first Weekend Reading every month can be read by anyone on the Monevator website. Subscribe for free to our email newsletter or become a member to ensure you see the rest. What caught my eye this week. Shared references are a tricky business. For example, if I reach for a few French-ish sounding phrases from the classic BBC sitcom ‘Allo, ‘Allo, a younger reader might think I’m having a brain event. Meanwhile, I’m sure older folk who weren’t paying close attention to the music scene in the 1990s must often mistake the song title subheadings in Weekend Reading for cryptic brain teasers. Or maybe misguided attempts at poetry. But today I’ve a reference that will unite you all: in incomprehension. It came to mind during what was a turbulent week in the stock market, and then I couldn’t un-think it. A blue wave I was fascinated as a young aquarist by a bit of kit called a ‘Carlson Surge Device’. This DIY contraption created chaotic water turbulence inside aquariums. Fish would be…

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