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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 ...

Is gold the trade of the decade? The yellow metal has soared 40% this year in US dollar terms, making more than 30 successive record highs along the way. It has gained 135% since January 2020, outstri

Since World War II, the two landmark events in the evolution of money were Bretton Woods in 1944, when the dollar became the de facto global reserve currency, and then the Nixon Shock of 1971, when th

“There is always someone worse off than you,” as Aesop reminded us. That also means there is always someone to feel superior to. In post-war Europe, Italy was the country everyone made fun of, dismiss