What kind of an investor was Winston Churchill | FT #shorts
Financial Times·2026-04-27 06:52
I want to talk about Winston Churchill. And what kind of investor was he. It really kind of makes your skin crawl some of the things that he got up to along the way.Back in the day, journalists got paid phenomenally well. Churchill's per article going rate was about 750 pounds. If we whack that through the Bank of England's inflation calculator, around about sort of 43,000 pounds on CPI linkage or 200,000 pounds on a wage linkage or 480,000 pounds on a GDP linkage.He was making serious, serious mint. The ki ...