In the years since the financial crash in 2008, the finger of blame has been pointed at a range of targets; one name that keeps cropping...

Hurrah for the Eurocrats! Haven’t they done such a good job in putting forward a cap on banker bonuses? That’ll make everything better....

I recently had quite a long discussion with an analyst friend about the potential effect of ‘unknowns’ on the direction of prices. We...

I recently went to see “The Wolf of Wall Street”; I found it absolutely hilarious, and I strongly recommend any readers who have not yet...

In the last thirty-odd years, China’s economic growth has been the fastest sustained improvement the world has ever seen. To be honest,...

In an earlier article, “Is QE Sharpening its Teeth?”, we discussed the underlying reasons why QE was used and the intended consequences...

The world’s central banks – with the Fed, the Bank of England, the ECB and the Japanese to the fore – have been throwing a party for some...

What’s in a name? Deutsche Bank have recently withdrawn from their membership of the London Gold Fix and the search is on to find a...

“Money makes the world go round” sang Liza Minelli in the film version of Cabaret, based on Christopher Isherwood’s ‘Goodbye to Berlin’....

One big fat book unlikely to have dropped into your Christmas stocking this year would be David Nasaw’s biography of Andrew Carnegie...

Over the years of its existence, the LME has been involved in plenty of legal controversy – the Tin Crisis, for example, or the Sumitomo...

Ever since the 2008 financial crisis collaterally damaged the hull of the financial “supertanker,” overly indebted governments have been...