The return to a de facto gold standard

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The story of commodities in 2025 was “energy down, metals up hard”, says Ole Hansen of Saxo Bank. Silver and copper are continuing their record-breaking rallies, but the world’s oil men are feeling gl

We are in a real-life game of Risk. In 2019, Fiona Hill, an official at the US National Security Council during Donald Trump’s first term, said the Russians had informally proposed a plan whereby they

In 1972, Yale Hirsch, author of the Stock Trader’s Almanac, devised the January Barometer, which states that as the S&P index goes in January, so goes the year. By 2005, the barometer had claimed a 90

“The failure of economists to forecast recessions is virtually unblemished,” notes Prakash Loungani, assistant director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This includes the economists at the IM