Serious investment thinking that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
Bloomberg company news continually tells me that real estate shares are hitting a 52-week high. You’d have thought that was good news, and in a way, it is. But it rather masks the fact that the FTSE 100 and the FTSE All Share Index have also not just hit their 52-week high, but also their all-time...
What is happening to all the animals? Details are starting to emerge on how Ukraine’s zoos are coping with the war. Some of the animals, including lions, tigers and wild...
Diébédo Francis Kéré has become the first African and the first black person to be awarded architecture’s highest international honour, the...
How cricket reflects our age. A game of cricket is an extended narrative. It’s also an exercise in cause and effect. Luck aside, if you play a bad shot, you may be dismissed; if...
How Russia’s economy will struggle to pay the price of invading Ukraine. The invasion of Ukraine has placed Russia on the verge of bankruptcy. Interest rates have doubled,...
The Federal Reserve System manages the US’s money supply, increasing or decreasing bank credit and other circulating media to reach a target interest rate usually announced at...
Here’s how it played out. It’s impossible to predict how the crisis in Ukraine will progress, but the rupture in relations between Russia and the West is unlikely to heal...
Suppose you own a substantial number of shares – say, $500,000 worth – in Acme Corp, a manufacturer of home furnishings. And being a shareholder, you decide to attend the...
I can’t help thinking that Amanda Staveley and her consortium have bought the wrong football club. Had they waited just five months they could have had Chelsea FC rather...
Building a bridge is costly: it takes labour and machinery and raw materials that have alternative uses. Does it follow that building it is a waste? No. Waste occurs...