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Super-Cycle Me
Commodity prices continue to rise — but are the doom-mongers right when they say it’s just a case of a…
ByAnd Now for Someone Completely Different
Now we know that Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, is expecting a baby, we thought we’d revisit Caroline Garnham’s…
ByWeathering the Storm
The turmoil of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami and unrest in North Africa has failed to derail the bright progress…
ByPetronella Wyatt
Julian Fellowes’s period drama Downton Abbey, the second series of which is being filmed at Highclere Castle, has prompted a…
ByPainting by Numbers
Hedgehog attends a course on art fraud, and is currently painting his very own genuine Rembrandt Hedgehog attends a course…
ByHow to be Good
There’s no shame in making money from good causes: Josh Spero on the arrival of ‘impact investing’, a third way…
ByWBrief: Julius Baer pays off Germany to end tax inquiry
Swiss private banking group Julius Baer will pay the German authorities a one-off -50 million ($72.5 million) to bring to…
ByExclusive: Vaughan Smith on Julian Assange
At a talk in Kensington this morning, Vaughan Smith, journalist and host of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, called his guest…
ByGreene and Hill
I imagine to any passing lorry driver, it probably looked like my car had broken down: it was actually the…
ByBrown's Boomerangs
When he was in No. 10, Brown’s ugly temper turned it into the House of the Flying Mobiles When he…
ByTelegraph: 50p rate to go by 2013
George Osborne is hoping to scrap the 50p top rate of tax in his Budget in 2013, on the back…
ByFour Risks for the Year
In the opening months of 2011 fast-moving events have reshaped the three dimensions – economic, financial and geopolitical – that…
ByIntro
The Spear’s team of critics we will be spotlighting the very best – and occasionally worst – of every month’s…
ByWealth Report: Tax and Kidnapping Send HNWs Fleeing
HNWs relocating around the world are driven by factors as diverse as escaping from tax and avoiding kidnapping, according to…
ByRuffer donates £15m to save paintings
Jonathan Ruffer, the renowned contrarian wealth manager, has bought a series of twelve Spanish Old Master paintings from the Bishop…
ByArts Council Cuts Announced
Responding to a 30 per cent cut in government funding, the Arts Council England today announced the winners and losers…
ByNo Easy Way Out
Between the hawks and the doves of the MPC, there is no comfortable middle ground. Imagine for a moment that…
ByHouston, We Have a Problem
Our world is facing a conjunction of three cycles affecting Credit, Climate and Conflict, Bill Houston writes in his new…
ByFlare Path
We are continually reminded that there are no certainties in war or in matters of the heart We are continually…
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