Economics & Markets

Three wheels on May’s wagon…

Campaigning resumes today in the British general election after three days of self-imposed reflection following the abominable events in Manchester…

A New Foundation for American Greatness?

The budget document is unrealistic… Investors have been anxiously waiting for Trump's budget proposals, to see if the fiscal shock…

Trumponomics, Corbynitis and Post-Thatcherism

You can tell a political ideology by its tax-and-spend policies. The two far extremes of the English-speaking political world -…

Are valuations now dangerously stretched?

Stretched Valuations Since the beginning of the year, I have been drawing the attention of the reader to the lack…

Is this the best-kept secret in finance?

Historians, in their quest to make sense of the past, refer to two types of source material. Primary sources are…

Mad about the boy

He is 39 and-a-half years old. He came top at Sciences Po and ENA. He was Minister of the Economy…

Sweeten your portfolio with cocoa

In this instalment of The Macro Investor, I’m going to lay the foundations for a long position in cocoa. A…

Signs of life in the eurozone

Last Thursday, the ECB decided to keep its monetary policy unchanged, as widely expected, and delay a significant change in…

The UK general election: A question of trust

The Tories are going to win the forthcoming British general election on 08 June handsomely if the opinion polls are…

Mellon on the Markets

Juvenescence, Bill Gates and the markets It’s been a month since the Master Investor Show, and it’s been a busy…