Lessons from History

The front-page tribute to George VI, and the pages of the Investors’ Chronicle on 9 February 1952 – three days after the Queen acceded to the throne – looks familiar enough from the vantage point of today

This year has been a challenge for investors, but the investment trust sector has a long history of weathering times of conflict.

Scotland has made a significant contribution to modern financial markets, particularly through its investment trusts. But what lies next?

Lessons from history: Michael Lewis's seminal book Liar's Poker and its excoriation of the slow-moving Salomon Brothers leadership holds some key ideas for thinking about the latest evolution in the financial world

The UK is far less dependent on Russian oil than it was on Saudi Arabian oil 50 years ago

The Black Death is an extreme example of the impact a sudden shortage of labour can cause

Faith Glasgow casts an eye over some the world's worst bouts of inflation and their causes

Production companies bracing for strike action are not as financially prepared as the last time their workers took to the picket lines

Faith Glasgow explores the extent to which space travel could mirror the growth of mass international tourism

Japan partied like it was 1999 in the 1980s, but the underlying weaknesses in its structure of corporate governance caused the mother of all asset price crashes.