Economics & Markets

Blowing in the wind: are Boris’s renewable ambitions realistic?

Boris Johnson wants us to set our gaze beyond the coronavirus pandemic to contemplate a future when our homes are…

Passive strategies for downside protection

With a 'second wave' of Covid-19 seemingly upon us, Filipe R. Costa looks at passive strategies to protect against the…

In the mouth of madness

It is nearly a year since a new virus emerged in China and rapidly spread around the world. During those…

Nvidia sweeps on Arm Holdings – What to make of it?

Microprocessor technology – the design and manufacture of computer chips – is now central to national security policy and the…

A brief history of economic policy triumphs   

If our politicians end up learning anything from this debacle, which is admittedly doubtful, it should be that the primary…

The Reckoning: The nastiest US general election ever

America is in for a melodramatic end to the pandemic year. The US presidential election is turning nasty and may…

Do cyborgs dream of electric pigs?

As part of an occasional series on AI, Victor Hill considers some new thinking on how machines might one day…

Journal of the Plague Year X – Political Vaccinology

With nearly one million deaths worldwide from Covid-19, who will get the vaccine first? Will it work? And there is…

Is gold going mainstream?

Gold, as an asset class, has had many detractors, particularly amongst the institutional community, but is that about to change?

Tulips! 

The latest Dutch tulip harvest is in, and experts confidently predict another bumper year for tulip growers and tulip investors…