Jonathan Clements
The Guardian
What holds, and what fails, under pressure, standards and accountability.
Jonathan Clements is The Guardian because his work is an act of custodial discipline. Both his journalism and the Humble Dollar return ordinary investors to sound principles again and again rather than chasing novelty. The platform itself is deliberately low-key and reader-first, built to preserve financial wisdom rather than monetise attention.
“And then on top of that, of course, we ran straight into the 2008-2009 Great Recession. So the business was pretty much dead before it began. And by the summer of 2009, they'd pulled the plug on this venture. And suddenly, you know, I've thrown away my journalism career to join the Citigroup. You know, what would happen next?”
“So, as of today, I'm feeling okay, but the cancer is, you know, is it my blood? It's likely to crop up somewhere else. I think I'm going to beat the one year mark that I was given. I'm hoping I'll make it through 2025, but realistically, it's unlikely that I'm going to make it much beyond then, though of course I would love it.”
“We know how vessels behave, which is they extrapolate recent return. So if the market's going up, they think it's going to keep going up. If it's going down, they assume it's going to keep going down. And that, of course, is what everybody around them is doing. They're also extrapolating returns.”
“So I think I already answered the Financial Journalism one, which is don't do it. I'm not Tali service. I mean, journalism. Is the most fun you can have while keeping your clothes on. I mean, newsrooms are great places to beef. You will never meet a group of people who are more fun to be with and more cynical.”
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