Is the bitcoin bull market safe to buy?

Comparisons with other commodities are a useful reality-check

“What would you do,” was the question pitched by a dear reader. The batter, your very own columnist, will take a swing at it. Our preference is to buy land or private businesses. Private business is b

It’s time for my annual article in which I put the boot into silver. Why now? Because, according to one of my WhatsApp chats, it’s breaking out. Silver is always supposedly breaking out. It never actu

Issue of the week: are markets too complacent? ...

In the world of bonds and fixed income, US billionaire Howard Marks is a titan. After making a name for himself at Citicorp in the 1970s and then TCW Group in the 1980s trading distressed bonds, he fo

Companies in the news ...and how they were assessed