Issue of the week: currency gyrations The “debasement ...

Goldbugs are not ideal dinner guests. They are rarely in a particularly cheery mood: one pro-gold article I recall from the optimistic 2000s was entitled We’re freaking doomed, dude. That conjures up

Companies in the news and how they were assessed

“Japan has been the world's financial shock absorber for a generation,” says Nigel Green of deVere Group. No longer. Two decades of ultra-low interest rates have pushed Japanese investors overseas in

The Board of Peace Controversy of the week ...

Ray Madoff The Second EstateHow the tax code made an Americanaristocracy192pp. Chicago University Press. £19 (US$25). Vanessa S. Williamson The Price of Democracy The revolutionary power of taxation i