Assaying trump’s golden age

The final days of June last year were a wonderful time for vicarious lovers of bling. On the 22nd, the third season of Julian Fellowes’s lavish TV series, The Gilded Age, dropped on HBO. Just days lat

One of the least financially literate people I have ever met was a friend who as a teenager accumulated an unarranged overdraft of £50 on her newly opened bank account. Having been told she must recti

Here’s a “market paradox”, says Craig Mellow in Barron’s. The more the US government “trash talks Europe, the better it is for the euro”. The single currency has gained 13% against the greenback since

Our job here on the back page is simply to connect the dots and see what picture they form. We cast no judgment on the dots themselves – no matter what blithering idiots put them there. We just try to

Gold has dominated the headlines recently, but we were on the story early. We’ve had gold stocked up in our hidey-holes for more than two decades. Mostly, we ignored it and it ignored us, which was fi

“The Trump tariffs are dead. Long live the Trump tariffs,” says Roge Karma in The Atlantic. The US Supreme Court has struck down most of Donald Trump’s landmark “liberation day” tariffs, finding that