Banking on destruction

Phil happened upon a book to Australian economist Joshua Gans (and Andrew Leigh) called Innovation & Inequality – how to create a future that is more Star Trek than Terminator. He discusses some of the concepts with Steve, including whether companies responsible for the creative ...  Show more

Andy Burnham is now the British Prime Minister but, Phil asks, aside from convening cabinet meetings in the north, will he do anything different to his predecessor. No, he will follow the same neoclassical economics approach as all Prime Ministers, with an obsession for balancing ...  Show more

Our Head of Corporate Credit Research explains why leveraged loans would benefit if bumpy inflation data leads the Federal Reserve to delay interest rate cuts.

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Welcome to Thoughts on the Market. I'm Andrew Sheets, head o ...

The past few years have been marked by two economic trends that have affected pretty much everyone on the planet. The first is the cost of living crisis that followed the Covid pandemic and was made worse by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. That saw prices in the shops soar - in man ...  Show more

A big part of the market's recent downturn is the Dow Transports, which is currently below its 50- and 200-day moving averages. Bank of America's Ken Hoexter lays out the road ahead. Plus, LVMH is higher despite reporting slowing sales growth. TEMA ETFs' Javier Gonzalez explai ...

* Government data says inflation worse than the 80s; real data says inflation already worse than the 70s. * Hypocritical Republicans criticize Biden for the same policies they pushed for under Trump. * Jerome Powell claims economy is great, but it needs the same amount of stimulu ...  Show more