Book of the week

In view of the popularity of catastrophising in the UK, The Great Crashes by Professor Linda Yueh should have no trouble finding a ready audience here. Its subtitle, Lessons from global meltdowns and

“There must have been a conspiracy,” says the novelist William Boyd, after describing John F Kennedy’s assassination to me. He cites the usual clues—the film shot by Abraham Zapruder, the entry wounds

Goldbugs are not ideal dinner guests. They are rarely in a particularly cheery mood: one pro-gold article I recall from the optimistic 2000s was entitled We’re freaking doomed, dude. That conjures up

Review of reviews: Books

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

I’ve never had much luck with metals. In 1981, around a year after the last structural gold bull market peaked, I was given a small krugerrand. Aged seven, having noted that it was not made of chocola