Mar 5th 2025 | Mexico City, Ottawa and Washington, DC Keeping abreast of Donald Trump’s utterances on tariffs, from actual announcements to vague threats, is a dizzying task. One day he is set on wrec...
It is a fabulous time to be a gold bug. Not long ago, outing yourself as one was a good way of getting people to back away from you at an investment conference. The popular image was of someone in pos...
Mar 3rd 2025 | Washington, DC HE HAS ACTUALLY gone and done it. President Donald Trump had long threatened to impose hefty tariffs on Canada and Mexico, America’s two biggest trading partners. Last mo...
Mar 2nd 2025 | Washington, DC “The golden age of America begins right now.” So declared Donald Trump on January 20th in his inaugural address. In the six weeks since that chilly day, investors and eco...
Mar 2nd 2025 For much of the time since Nayib Bukele became president in 2019, El Salvador has teetered on the brink of default. The warning signs were familiar: high debt and interest payments, exace...
There's good news for potential homebuyers: mortgage rates continued to trend down this week. In January, rates hit 7.04%, the highest level since last May. This week, however, 30-year rates dropped t...
Thirty years ago Siddharth Dube, a writer, visited a small village in northern India near the site of a historic peasants’ revolt. He found plenty that remained enraging: mud huts, primitive ploughs, ...
Feb 27th 2025 | San Francisco “A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!” In “Pride and Prejudice” Jane Austen did not have to explain to the 19th-c...
Balances for 401(k) retirement accounts hit the "second-highest average on record" in the final quarter of 2024, according to new data from Fidelity Investments. The financial services company found i...
