From the editor...

We didn’t make any specific calls in our first edition, but flicking through it at the British Library the other day (none of us have a copy) I was struck by how we managed to highlight important them

“History is just one f**king thing after another,” declares a vulgar schoolboy in Alan Bennett’s play The History Boys. Surveying the past 25 years can feel the same way. From Iraq to the euro crisis

The past may be a foreign country, but it often feels very familiar. The first edition of MoneyWeek appeared 25 years ago this week, on 4 November 2000, just as a huge stockmarket boom based on a pote

Gold succumbed to gravity this week. After a phenomenal surge – almost 30% in two months – it slipped by 6.3% on Tuesday, the biggest daily fall since 2013 (see page 4). Good. As gold bugs we like to

Questions about AI’s stockmarket dominance are being asked louder than ever. On 27 October, Wired published an article contending that “AI may not simply be ‘a bubble’ or even an enormous bubble. It m

Inflation still too high: “Any good news on the inflation front must be seized upon, and the fact that food prices actually fell in September is likely to be a cause for celebration in struggling hous