James Buchan

One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A…

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history…

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded…

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the…

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the…

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes…

The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not…

To give money to a woman – and here I must speak as a man – is…

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler’s short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process…

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue…

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation…

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation…

For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could…

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the…

Bulls don’t read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust…