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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

Are you tired of next month’s Budget yet? Governments fly so many kites these days it feels as though we have been through the whole thing twice in slow motion already. No wonder: last year the chance

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

History may merely rhyme, rather than repeat itself, but it certainly often offers a neat sense of symmetry. When this magazine launched on 4 November 2000, air was hissing loudly out of the dotcom bu

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