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How we think about money writing

Financial writing has a persistent jargon problem, and the jargon rarely serves the reader—it more often serves the writer, either by making a simple idea sound more sophisticated than it is, or by letting an author gesture at a concept without actually explaining it clearly enough to be checked. We try to define terms before using them and prefer a longer, plainer sentence to a shorter one dense with unexplained shorthand, on the theory that a reader who actually understands a concept is better served than one who has merely been exposed to the right vocabulary. This preference is also a hedge against a specific kind of dishonesty: it is much harder to make a weak argument sound convincing in plain language than in jargon, because plain language exposes gaps in reasoning that technical terms can quietly paper over. We also try to write with real respect for how much genuine uncertainty exists in markets and in an individual life—a respect that shows up as scenarios instead of single confident numbers, ranges instead of false precision, and 'here is what we do not know' stated as plainly as 'here is what we do know.' Software, including the kind now commonly called AI, is a tool we use to help draft and organize material faster; it is not treated as a source of authority on its own, and every substantive claim gets checked by a person before publication regardless of how it was drafted.