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“If you can’t explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself,” said Albert Einstein. The financial-services industry has always enjoyed presenting perfectly straightforward concepts in intimidating jargon. The prose in articles, repor

That wasn’t the inflation report that investors betting on easier money ahead were hoping to see, says Justin Lahart in The Wall Street Journal. Annual US inflation came in at 3.7% in September, the same reading as the previous month and higher than

“Rarely since the 1970s” has the world “seemed so turbulent”, says the Financial Times. “The dual shocks” of the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have upended energy markets and supply chains. US-China relations have soured. Market measures

Nearly a fortnight into the Israel-Gaza war, Israel has reasserted control on its border with Gaza, unleashed a “relentless” aerial bombardment that has killed nearly 3,000 people, and has 300,000 reservists backed by tanks and helicopters massed for

Fruit seller wins election: Daniel Noboa (pictured), the 35-year-old heir to a banana fortune, will become Ecuador’s youngest-ever president after winning Sunday’s election run-off by a margin of roughly five points over his left-wing rival, Luisa Go

Shoplifting has surged in the UK, with the number of thefts from shops more than doubling over the past three years to reach eight million in 2022, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC). The retailers say those thefts cost them not far sho

palladiummag.com A footloose and ambitious young man might decide to move to San Francisco for its “open and accepting culture”, or to Asia to be part of a “new and rising world”, says Vitalik Buterin, the founder of cryptocurrency Ethereum. But wha

Andrew: Most analyses of the big picture start with inflation. We know that like us, you have always been sceptical of central banks, so we were intrigued a couple of years ago to see that you thought the US Federal Reserve was broadly right in its i

How can you turn a tiny sum into a large one? Speculating in small stocks is one answer – the problem is that you risk losing your shirt. But there is another, safer option. All you need is time (lots of it) and some discipline. You will often hear i

The backlash against remote working is gathering pace. Even technology giants Google and Amazon have begun encouraging staff to make more frequent visits to the office. A growing number of companies are insisting that staff now come back to the workp

Pubs and bars bore the brunt of lockdowns. Many lost all their revenue once they were ordered to close. And while some enterprising management teams sold beer from a window or a backyard, or generated other forms of revenue through Zoom meet-ups, the

In emerging markets the alignment of societal and environmental development with robust financial growth offers attractive investments. Companies across diverse sectors, from electric vehicles to education and finance, are delivering valuable service

“It’s what I have done all my life,” said the Colombian billionaire Jaime Gilinski Bacal, as he took control of Britain’s capital-challenged Metro Bank earlier this month and vowed to return it to profitability in 2024. Many commentators are sceptica

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Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster UK, £28 With the possible exception of Donald Trump, there is no more divisive figure in the Western world than Elon Musk. To some he is the business leader of our generation, a visionary with his sights set on solvin

West led the six of Diamonds v Six Spades, the unbid suit and declarer beat East’s ten with the Ace, and cashed the Ace of Trumps, observing East’s ten. He followed with the Queen, in order to pick up West’s likely guarded Knave, and found that he co

The war in Ukraine seems to be winding down. When the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, spoke to the UN at the end of last month, many of the seats were empty. Russia is winning; the rest of the world is losing interest. Ukraine is running out

The “magnificent seven” of technology mega-caps (Apple, Microsoft, Googleowner Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Tesla and Facebook-owner Meta) have accounted for the bulk of the S&P 500 index’s 14% gains so far this year, says Ryan Ermey on CNBC. These seve