Desert island tips

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

“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

Would you buy a 40-year bond from Oracle? No, neither would I. If, as Lenin said, there are weeks when decades happen, then anything could change in 40 years. In 1985, IBM and General Electric were tw

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

The dots appear to contradict one another, puzzling observers. How to connect them? Inflation over the last five years has been double the Federal Reserve’s target. Why then, does it cut its key lendi

Issue of the week: the great gold run ...