Economics & Markets

Plague Year Journal V: Science & Sensibility

The Covid-19 pandemic will be the best documented and most analysed in history. But the long-term impact will be in…

Plague Year IV: Why the British numbers are so bad

Even Tory loyalists admit that the UK mortality figures are dire and the economic consequences of lockdown are grave -…

Journal of the Plague Year III – Of models and black boxes

The Imperial College pandemic model was never peer-reviewed – until now. There are parallels between epidemiological models and catastrophic hedge…

Mellon on the Markets: “Now is the time to be cautious on equities”

Inside the mind of the Master Investor: Jim Mellon updates his readers on his latest thoughts on the markets and…

A Journal of the Plague Year – Part the Second – The Shadow of Big Brother

Test, track and trace – this is the new formula to contain this and future pandemics. Victor Hill makes another…

All change, please: markets are reaching a turning point

What has worked in markets, for the last decade at least, may well not work in the future over the…

Is this the end of the ‘golden age’ of air travel?

Victor Hill investigates which airlines will survive in the post-pandemic world? Is this the end of the 'golden age' of…

Passive strategies to exploit an oil recovery

Filipe R. Costa reveals how to explore an opportunity in the oil market without being exposed to negative prices.

A Journal of the Plague Year – Part the First

Daniel Defoe (of Robinson Crusoe fame) published his Journal of the Plague Year in 1722 - an eye-witness account of…

Mellon on the Markets: a gilded life awaits precious-metals investors

Inside the mind of the Master Investor: Jim Mellon updates his readers on his latest trading and investing activities.