The fed-wall st complex

The last 50 years have been kind to investors in real terms. Everything made money: equities, bonds, property and gold. All investors had to remember was not to buy high and sell low. But that hasn’t

When a president uses his office to launch a cryptocurrency, it is clear that his modus operandi is to part people from their money. Apply this analysis to the global stage, tune out the furore over h

Issue of the week: populism and central banks ...

“Sire… worse than a crime, you have committed an error,” said Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. A crime is whatever the feds say it is. Often not what you think it ought to be. But an error is d

Investors have a lot to think about as the president’s policies gather momentum

US president Donald Trump wants a looser monetary policy – lower interest rates – to get the economy growing and mitigate the impact of the ballooning US federal debt. Jerome Powell, the chairman of t