For anyone who has been following this site, I am happy to let you know that my blog and website are on the move. As from this week I will b...

There has been a lot of publicity today for recent remarks by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the hedge fund manager who wrote The Black Swan and Foo...

Return figures for the first half of 2010 did not make for inspiring reading.  Government bonds performed rather well and some high yield an...

The technical analyst Robin Griffiths , now working for the blue chip firm of Cazenove, was in more than usually ebullient form at an Invest...

One of the intriguing issues raised by Niall Ferguson’s absorbing new biography of Siegmund Warburg is why someone regarded, rightly, as “th...

Edward Chancellor, the financial historian now working for Jeremy Grantham's fund management company, has done more than anyone to illum...

An out of print book about hyperinflation has become a cult hit with professional investors in the United States, including Warren Buffett, ...

Sometimes a good graph can be worth a thousand words. I am grateful to Robert Buckland of Citigroup for this helpful illustration of stock m...

There was nothing in George Osborne’s emergency Budget on Tuesday to contradict the idea that the transition from Labour governments to Cons...

Jim Rogers, who co-founded the Quantum Fund, regularly speaks his mind on the outlook for global markets from his new home in Singapore. I h...