Fire and fury in Trump’s White House

Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury has turned the Trump White House upside-down, says Alex Rankine.

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No one believes he's up to the job not even the "incompetent lunatic" Bannon
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If you are working for Donald Trump then prepare to be insulted, says Amy Davidson Sorkin in The New Yorker. Fire and Fury, the new account of life in the Trump White House by journalist Michael Wolff, is a "revelatory well of transcribed backbiting and bitter braggadocio". Former chief strategist Steve Bannon deems the president's daughter Ivanka "dumb as a brick".

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Alex is an investment writer who has been contributing to MoneyWeek since 2015. He has been the magazine’s markets editor since 2019. 

Alex has a passion for demystifying the often arcane world of finance for a general readership. While financial media tends to focus compulsively on the latest trend, the best opportunities can lie forgotten elsewhere. 

He is especially interested in European equities – where his fluent French helps him to cover the continent’s largest bourse – and emerging markets, where his experience living in Beijing, and conversational Chinese, prove useful. 

Hailing from Leeds, he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford. He also holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Manchester.