Bitcoin boom is back on

Parents of young children, and pet owners, often start to worry when they have been enjoying an unusually long period of silence. Investors are experiencing a similar sensation. Markets seem calm, wit

Since World War II, the two landmark events in the evolution of money were Bretton Woods in 1944, when the dollar became the de facto global reserve currency, and then the Nixon Shock of 1971, when th

“There is always someone worse off than you,” as Aesop reminded us. That also means there is always someone to feel superior to. In post-war Europe, Italy was the country everyone made fun of, dismiss

The precious metal benefits from many of the same drivers as bullion

In 2018, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) sternly warned that “crypto-assets have no intrinsic value” and that investors in them “should therefore be prepared to lose all the value they have put

Issue of the week: trouble in the gilt ...