The charts that matter: precious metals, longevity and a cure for baldness

As the gold price presses on to new highs, John Stepek looks at he charts that matter most to the global economy.

Welcome back.

We have a fantastic new podcast this week. Merryn interviews Andrew J Scott about The New Long Life, the new book he has just written with fellow London Business School professor Lynda Gratton. It’s a fascinating discussion of how we have the potential to live much longer than we have really yet got to grips with. As well as health and wealth tips, this podcast is maybe a bit unusual for us in that – for all that longer lifespans will present their own formidable social challenges – it’s really rather optimistic. I highly recommend you listen to this one.

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John Stepek

John Stepek is a senior reporter at Bloomberg News and a former editor of MoneyWeek magazine. He graduated from Strathclyde University with a degree in psychology in 1996 and has always been fascinated by the gap between the way the market works in theory and the way it works in practice, and by how our deep-rooted instincts work against our best interests as investors.

He started out in journalism by writing articles about the specific business challenges facing family firms. In 2003, he took a job on the finance desk of Teletext, where he spent two years covering the markets and breaking financial news.

His work has been published in Families in Business, Shares magazine, Spear's Magazine, The Sunday Times, and The Spectator among others. He has also appeared as an expert commentator on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, BBC Radio Scotland, Newsnight, Daily Politics and Bloomberg. His first book, on contrarian investing, The Sceptical Investor, was released in March 2019. You can follow John on Twitter at @john_stepek.