Book of the week

Sherman McCoy, the lead character in the 1987 book The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, was described as a “master of the universe” due to his role as the highest-earning bond trader at his broke

“The lesson of history,” it is said, “is that the lessons of history are never learned.” Does the same apply to investment? Investors, amateur and professional alike, spend a huge amount of time porin

The difference between successful people and very successful people, Warren Buffett once said, is that very successful people say no to almost everything. I suspect he’s right. But I’ve never been goo

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

Every generation gets one industrial revolution. Ours is AI – still novel, not yet fully understood, but certain to become so embedded in life that we’ll forget how we ever worked without it. The ques

“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