Latest articles by Sean Keyes
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Make your fortune on the final frontier
Features The next great space race will be led by private companies – the rewards for investors could be astronomical, says Seán Keyes. Here, he tips two pioneering stocks to buy now.
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1919: the year another European currency union died
Features Almost a century ago, the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the demise of its single currency left devastation and panic in its wake, says Seán Keyes. Is history about to repeat itself in the eurozone?
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The key to a stable financial system: set banks free
Features Far from producing a stable financial system, central banks have achieved the exact opposite. So what's the alternative? 'Free banking' - where private banks print their own money and are allowed to fail like any other business. Seán Keyes explains.
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How single cities grow to dominate global finance
Features Seán Keyes looks at how the world's financial capitals develop, and how power can shift from one place to the next with remarkable ease.
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John Law: the gambler who broke France
Profiles Those who would meddle with a nation's money supply to ward off default would do well to heed a warning from history. Seán Keyes looks at the troubled life of economist John Law.
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How capital cities can turn into parasites
Features Capital cities can be key drivers of a nation's economy. But if politics becomes corrupt, they can become huge, bloated parasites, sucking the life out of the rest of the country. Seán Keyes explains how.
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An independent Scotland must abandon the pound
Features If Scotland is to leave the union, there can be no half-measures, says Seán Keyes. It must abandon sterling if it is to prosper.
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How Britain’s cultural revolution transformed the world
Features For thousands of years, the average person lived a short, poverty-riddled existence. Then, in 18th century Britain, living conditions improved beyond all measure. Seán Keyes explains how a simple shift in attitudes changed the world.
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The depression you’ve never heard of
Features America's depression of 1920-21 was as savage as the Great Depression of the 1930s - but few people have heard of it. However, it can teach us something about the current downturn, says Sean Keyes.
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The case for replacing Mervyn King with a robot
Features Seán Keyes explores market monetarism, where boom and bust really are banished, recession is all in the mind, and central bankers are replaced by machines.
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