Stocks head to a cliff edge

More investors are jumping on the Gold Express. In an interview for CNBC, “Bond king” Jeffrey Gundlach said a quarter of the “perfect portfolio” would be in gold and predicts the price will hit $4,000

The US government has shut down again. But even as the shutdown approached, stocks rose. How could they go up while the single biggest player in the whole economy withdraws? Because maybe it doesn’t m

“America has progressed from infancy to senility without passing through a period of maturity.” So said a character in one of Ian Fleming’s short stories in 1960. He was wrong then – or, was he, as so

Age brings wisdom – or at least experience. MoneyWeek is approaching its 25th birthday (the first edition appeared on 3 November 2000), and is therefore in a better position than many publications to

“Dr Pangloss, welcome to Wall Street,” says Randall Forsyth in Barron’s. Voltaire’s “oblivious optimist” would feel right at home as stocks in the US and Asia hit record highs, even as Russia sends dr

A few years ago we kept hearing that the average human attention span had dwindled from around 12 seconds to eight, less than the average goldfish’s nine. The statistic rang true to me, given our endl