Have billionaires accumulated their wealth illegitimately?
Nov 7th 2019BILLIONAIRES HAVE never exactly been popular with the radical left. But with a member of the nine-zero club sitting…
Tighter production targets have failed to lift the price of oil
Nov 14th 2019MEMBERS OF THE Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, live in a state of uneasy anticipation….
America’s public-sector pension schemes are trillions of dollars short
Nov 14th 2019PERHAPS IT TAKES teachers to give politicians a lesson. Any official who wants to understand the terrible state of…
The Trump administration is trying to reforge carmakers’ supply chains
Nov 14th 2019WASHINGTON, DC“YOU WOULD need a magic wand to bring back manufacturing jobs,” said President Donald Trump on…
Litigation finance faces ethical quandaries
Nov 7th 2019NEW YORKFROM A FINANCIAL perspective, a civil lawsuit is rather like a derivatives contract. Its value to a claimant…
The improved mood in financial markets
Nov 14th 2019IT HAS BEEN a year of mood swings in financial markets. In the spring and summer, anxious investors piled into the…
Some Chinese firms turn out to have lied about their state pedigree
Nov 14th 2019SHANGHAIIT CERTAINLY SOUNDS pretty powerful: China Nuclear Engineering Construction Group. Once controlled by the…
How Jim Simons became the most successful investor of all time
Nov 14th 2019The Man Who Solved The Market. Gregory Zuckerman. Penguin Random House; 359 pages; $30THE BEST investors’ strategies…
The case for a falling dollar
Nov 14th 2019NOBODY WANTS to be called an unthinking optimist. Prospects for the riskier sort of investments are cloudy. The global…