FT writers confess their personal finance mistakes
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Financial Times writers’ personal finance mistakes
One of the most interesting personal finance articles of 2024 was published on December 27, right at the end of the year, in which finance writers for The Financial Times admitted their worst money mistakes.
The article is proof that even when you know how money works you can still fail to adjust your own behaviour or act irrationally.
The best thing about it is that even though these are highly accomplished financial professionals they still made all the same stupid mistakes that everyone does.
This is why we started Moneyin2 — to get you over these stumbling blocks. From the article (which for many of you will be behind a paywall):