Andy Scott Lost £6 Million Before 30 and Rebuilt
Loans came easy Scott started as a nightclub doorman in Portsmouth at 16. At 18 he inherited £5,000 from his grandmother and bought a run-down terrace house. He renovated it and doubled his money. By 25, he says, he had developed 250 houses. He also ran…
The Peso’s Record Low: What It Means for Your Wallet
The Philippine peso closed at P62.59 against the US dollar on Friday, its fifth straight session at a new all-time low. The currency opened at P62.43 and hit P62.65 intraday before pulling back. That seven-centavo drop from Thursday’s P62.52 finish…
CJ McCollum’s Fear That Doesn’t Go Away
CJ McCollum has built one of the more lucrative careers in the NBA. By most measures, he has already won. He does not spend like it. In his own words: “I always fear like everybody goes broke, so I’m not going to spend money.” That…
The System That Worked, and the One That Didn’t
Metro Manila’s P85 minimum wage hike happened this year because of a regional wage board, one of 17 across the country, doing exactly what it was designed to do. A much bigger idea, a flat P200 daily increase for every private-sector worker in the…
The Philippines Moved Up a Class. Your Income Might Not Have.
The Philippines is now officially an upper-middle income country, according to the World Bank. The country’s gross national income per capita reached $4,850, clearing the $4,636 threshold for the category. The reclassification ends a 39-year run as…
Filipinos Are Not Spending Less. They’re Spending Smarter.
The way Filipinos spend money is changing. Not because they stopped wanting things. Because they started asking harder questions about what those things are worth. Research from NielsenIQ, Worldpanel by Numerator, and consumer sentiment forums in 2026…