Lessons from japan

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

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 US government has shut down again. But even as the shutdown approached, stocks rose. How could they go up while the single biggest player in the whole economy withdraws? Because maybe it doesn’t m

“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

“Dr Pangloss, welcome to Wall Street,” says Randall Forsyth in Barron’s. Voltaire’s “oblivious optimist” would feel right at home as stocks in the US and Asia hit record highs, even as Russia sends dr

The world is full of recurring patterns, not just in the natural world but in the social realm, too. There is the boom-bubble-bust cycle of the stockmarket. There is what we call the Primary Trend, in