November 2022
Pelosi’s tenure as House Speaker is unlikely to be surpassed
She asserted an iron will as Democrats’ longest-serving leader and never lost her grip on the party.
September 2022
Did the US shortchange investors $US27b?
Investment firm Fairholme Funds is leading a group that claims US government agencies shortchanged them $US27 billion in the financial engineering that has its roots in the 2008 mortgage meltdown.
January 2021
Henry Paulson returns to finance, to run climate-focused fund
The move brings Paulson back to the finance industry for the first time since he left Goldman Sachs to become Treasury secretary in 2006.
November 2020
Obama’s memoir is a ripping read until he gets to the White House
After detailing a thrilling ride to the presidency, Barack Obama gives an honest account of his time in office that stops consistently short of the whole truth.
June 2020
We may be entering a post-dollar world
Continued erosion of trust in America politically could have an impact on the dominance of the US banking system and the supremacy of its currency.
February 2020
Inside BlackRock's black box
About 10 per cent of global stocks and bonds sit on BlackRock’s vast technology platform and critics argue that it could destablise the entire financial system.
From vampire squid to Wall St scrapper: the humbling of Goldman Sachs
In the noughties, Goldman Sachs figured as the world’s most powerful investment bank. But that's all history.
January 2020
Brace for decade of 'living dangerously', warns Kevin Rudd
Peace between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping over trade won't stop an increasingly "adversarial" clash between the superpowers as they test each other's limits on technology, markets and security, says the former Australian PM.
August 2019
Why the Fed will struggle to respond to the next crisis
A decade on from the GFC and with a potential recession looming, we still don’t get the deeper interconnections in the global economic system.