What should investors do about the dollar’s dive?

“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

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

Since World War II, the two landmark events in the evolution of money were Bretton Woods in 1944, when the dollar became the de facto global reserve currency, and then the Nixon Shock of 1971, when th

Issue of the week: the great gold run ...

More investors are jumping on the Gold Express. In an interview for CNBC, “Bond king” Jeffrey Gundlach said a quarter of the “perfect portfolio” would be in gold and predicts the price will hit $4,000

Is gold the trade of the decade? The yellow metal has soared 40% this year in US dollar terms, making more than 30 successive record highs along the way. It has gained 135% since January 2020, outstri