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“The lesson of history,” it is said, “is that the lessons of history are never learned.” Does the same apply to investment? Investors, amateur and professional alike, spend a huge amount of time porin

After World War II, America and its allies put in place a set of alliances, institutions and power structures to rebuild war-ravaged countries, create geopolitical stability and generate global econom

Every generation gets one industrial revolution. Ours is AI – still novel, not yet fully understood, but certain to become so embedded in life that we’ll forget how we ever worked without it. The ques

Sherman McCoy, the lead character in the 1987 book The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, was described as a “master of the universe” due to his role as the highest-earning bond trader at his broke

“History is just one f**king thing after another,” declares a vulgar schoolboy in Alan Bennett’s play The History Boys. Surveying the past 25 years can feel the same way. From Iraq to the euro crisis

We didn’t make any specific calls in our first edition, but flicking through it at the British Library the other day (none of us have a copy) I was struck by how we managed to highlight important them