Currency

What exchange rates did to people paid in one currency and spending in another. What happened, not predictions.

Pattern Story

A Year Abroad, A 12% Swing Nobody Was Managing

Sep 23, 2026

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2 min read

A Year Abroad, A 12% Swing Nobody Was Managing

Thirty-plus Australian coaches and well over a hundred players are earning overseas right now. None of them chose where in a 12% range their pay would land this year.

Currency

Sep 16, 2026

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5 min read

$370 Million, 51 Countries, One Currency

MLS just published its transfer numbers. The part nobody costs is what happens between arrival and departure.

US-Japan Corridor

A 40-Year High and a Four-Year $60m Contract

Sep 9, 2026

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3 min read

A 40-Year High and a Four-Year $60m Contract

Kazuma Okamoto is paid in dollars and lives in yen. What that contract is actually worth just moved again, plus a look at stablecoins and what's new on the channel.

Morning Report

Sep 7, 2026

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2 min read

The Pay Cut the Aussie Wrote

A rising Aussie sounds like good news — until you are paid in something else.

Currency

Aug 30, 2026

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2 min read

The Yen Just Woke Up

A quiet 2.8% move, and what it costs if you earn in dollars and send money home to Japan.

Currency

Did your Dubai completion date just cost you £36,000?

Aug 27, 2026

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2 min read

Did your Dubai completion date just cost you £36,000?

I wrote this in May. The pound has now done it a fifth time.

Chris Broadfoot

Morning Report

The Pay Cut Nobody Wrote Into the Contract

Aug 26, 2026

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2 min read

The Pay Cut Nobody Wrote Into the Contract

The pound is having a strong year against the US dollar. Against the Australian dollar, it is having a very different one.

Currency

Aug 17, 2026

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2 min read

The Tasman Tax

The Aussie slipped back under 1.20 against the Kiwi this morning. If you earn on one side of the ditch and send money to the other, here is what that actually costs.

Currency

Jul 16, 2026

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2 min read

Nowhere to hide, the AUD 2026 story.

What happened to your money in the first half of 2026

Chris Broadfoot

Currency

A Year Abroad, A 12% Swing Nobody Was Managing

$370 Million, 51 Countries, One Currency

A 40-Year High and a Four-Year $60m Contract

The Pay Cut the Aussie Wrote

The Yen Just Woke Up

Did your Dubai completion date just cost you £36,000?

The Pay Cut Nobody Wrote Into the Contract

The Tasman Tax

Nowhere to hide, the AUD 2026 story.

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