The fed-wall st complex

The new “toys for tots”, or so-called “Trump Accounts” savings programme announced by Donald Trump set our mind spinning. The idea is that the federal government will place $1,000 in an investment acc

How’s the trade war going? Short answer: as badly as expected. Capricious tariffs have shown the rest of the world that the US cannot be trusted. And they have pushed trading partners away and closer

If time is money, money must be time. And time is life. So, the people who control the money must also control our time. Most people count their lives in time – in hours, weeks, months. Each one repre

We are in a real-life game of Risk. In 2019, Fiona Hill, an official at the US National Security Council during Donald Trump’s first term, said the Russians had informally proposed a plan whereby they

In 1972, Yale Hirsch, author of the Stock Trader’s Almanac, devised the January Barometer, which states that as the S&P index goes in January, so goes the year. By 2005, the barometer had claimed a 90

“The failure of economists to forecast recessions is virtually unblemished,” notes Prakash Loungani, assistant director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This includes the economists at the IM