How a jobs report broke the looking glass

Age brings wisdom – or at least experience. MoneyWeek is approaching its 25th birthday (the first edition appeared on 3 November 2000), and is therefore in a better position than many publications to

“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

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“Dr Pangloss, welcome to Wall Street,” says Randall Forsyth in Barron’s. Voltaire’s “oblivious optimist” would feel right at home as stocks in the US and Asia hit record highs, even as Russia sends dr

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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