This week marks MoneyWeek's 15th anniversary. Fifteen years, 767 issues (we take the odd week off). That's a lot of share tips, a lot of analysis, forecasts and news. And in our case at least, an awful lot of opinions. Along the way we've made a good many excellent calls and a few pretty bad ones. We've reported on the greatest financial crisis to hit the West since the Great Depression and on the ten largest bankruptcies in history.
We've watched several bubbles from technology to housing and commodities come and go (or in the case of UK housing, stay). We've interviewed and profiled hundreds of interesting people. We've worried endlessly (with good reason) about the eurozone. We've fallen in and (sometimes) out of love with gold. And we've campaigned relentlessly to change the financial industry for the better for fees to fall and for simplicity and transparency to rise. We've also learnt a lot.
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Halifax: House prices were static in June, but first-time buyers returnThe average cost of a home grew by just £117 over the past month, Halifax says. Will the property market continue to be resilient?
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Top-performing investment trusts: Europe leads the pack in H1European small caps have been the best-performing investment trust sector so far this year, as investors move money out of the US. Can it continue?
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How capitalism has been undermined by poor governanceEditor's letter Capitalism’s “ruthless efficiency” has been undermined by poor governance, a lack of competition and central banks’ over-enthusiastic money printing, says Andrew Van Sickle.
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The biggest change in the last 17 years – the death of the “Greenspan put”Editor's letter Since I joined MoneyWeek 17 years ago, says John Stepek, we’ve seen a global financial crisis, a eurozone sovereign debt crisis , several Chinese growth scares, a global pandemic, and a land war in Europe. But the biggest change is the death of the “Greenspan put”.
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Things won't just return to normal – that's not how inflation worksEditor's letter You might think that, if inflation is indeed “transitory”, we just need to wait and everything will return to “normal”. But this is a grave misunderstanding of how inflation works, says John Stepek.
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Car hire and the strangeness of the post-pandemic economyEditor's letter A global shortage of hire cars and unusually high hotel occupancy rates sum up the post-pandemic global economy in a nutshell, says Merryn Somerset Webb, with enhanced demand meeting restricted supply.
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Everything is getting more expensive – including moneyEditor's letter Investors are about to start feeling rather more pain, says Merryn Somerset Webb – from the rising price of money.
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We may be heading for recession – and it will be no ordinary recessionEditor's letter Just as the downturn in 2020 was not a typical recession. the next downturn could be very different too, says Merryn Somerset Webb.
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What companies should be prioritising this decadeEditor's letter In a world beset by uncertainty, companies should be prioritising slack over efficiency, says Merryn Somerset Webb.
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Inflation could soon start to hurtEditor's letter Inflation is not going away. And with people's wages not keeping up, things are going to start to hurt, says Merryn Somerset Webb.
