How to live with inflation

Issue of the week: currency gyrations The “debasement ...

“The dollar is the cornerstone of US power… it is the main weapon used by the US to maintain its power… [But] as soon as the political leadership decided to use the US dollar as a political instrument

I’ve never had much luck with metals. In 1981, around a year after the last structural gold bull market peaked, I was given a small krugerrand. Aged seven, having noted that it was not made of chocola

Goldbugs are not ideal dinner guests. They are rarely in a particularly cheery mood: one pro-gold article I recall from the optimistic 2000s was entitled We’re freaking doomed, dude. That conjures up

“Japan has been the world's financial shock absorber for a generation,” says Nigel Green of deVere Group. No longer. Two decades of ultra-low interest rates have pushed Japanese investors overseas in

Ray Madoff The Second EstateHow the tax code made an Americanaristocracy192pp. Chicago University Press. £19 (US$25). Vanessa S. Williamson The Price of Democracy The revolutionary power of taxation i