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Issue of the week: currency gyrations The “debasement ...

Last year was a “tumultuous” one for Latin America’s biggest economy, says The Economist. Former president Jair Bolsonaro was jailed in November for plotting a coup, prompting “punitive tariffs” from

“The dollar is the cornerstone of US power… it is the main weapon used by the US to maintain its power… [But] as soon as the political leadership decided to use the US dollar as a political instrument

The US dollar has slid to a four-year-low. The dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of major trading partners’ currencies, has dropped 12% since the start of 2025. Sterling now bu

“Perhaps he’ll do an Elvis and have a fatal heart attack on the loo,” a friend muttered this week. Like most investors, she is having trouble getting used to the idea that the US president has become

Andrew Van Sickle: A recurrent theme this year, and the subject of one of your key research papers, was drawing parallels between the dotcom bubble and this AI boom. What’s your take? Is this a case o