{"id":157192,"date":"2026-05-25T19:59:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/this-is-what-makes-a-market-member\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T20:01:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:01:50","slug":"this-is-what-makes-a-market-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/this-is-what-makes-a-market-member\/","title":{"rendered":"This is what makes a market (Member)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-100099\">\n<div class=\"headline_area\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"post_author_intro\">For <\/span><span class=\"post_author byline-restricted\">Mughal <\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"post_author_intro\">By<\/span> <span class=\"post_author\">investor<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"post_date_intro\">But<\/span> <span class=\"post_date\" title=\"2026-05-25\">25 may 2026<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"memberful-global-teaser-content\">\n<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">Tea<\/span>That was the year 2010 or early 2011. A pub in Clapham. I was arguing with the girlfriend of an investment banker friend of mine. She was even more contemptuous of my hobby of stock picking.<\/p>\n<p>He had just told me that all his money was in gilts. Given that he would be paid seven figures per year, that calculation was probably reasonable, although I thought he was crazy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"memberful-global-marketing-content\">\n<div class=\"box\"><em>This article can be read by selected Monevator members. Please check out our membership plans and consider joining! Already a member? <a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/monevator.memberful.com\/auth\/sign_in\">Sign in here<\/a>.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_box monevator-end-of-post-social\">\n<div class=\"social social-right\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"social-regular\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/monevator.com\/wp-content\/thesis\/skins\/classic-r\/images\/email_button.png\"\/><\/li>\n<li class=\"social-print\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/monevator.com\/wp-content\/thesis\/skins\/classic-r\/images\/print_button.png\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)(0);\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.6\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Mughal By investor But 25 may 2026 TeaThat was the year 2010 or early 2011. A pub in Clapham. I was arguing with the girlfriend of an investment banker friend of mine. She was even more contemptuous of my hobby of stock picking. He had just told me that all his money was in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1357,3049],"class_list":["post-157192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-devotionals","tag-market","tag-member"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157194,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157192\/revisions\/157194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}