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What's new this week This week on the podcast I talk to Gabriel Sacks, the lead manager of Aberdeen Asia Focus (ticker: AAS), an investment trust that invests in smaller companies across Asia (excluding Japan). The trust, managed for many years by Hugh Young, who retired in 2023, has capitalised on...
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The AI bubble will burst, says financial historian Edward Chancellor, author of a definitive history of past speculative excesses, from the South Sea Bubble onwards, and a brilliant recent book, The Price of Time, about the folly of sustained low interest rates. An earlier version of this article first appeared on the online financial website, Reuters Breakingviews, and is reproduced with the author's permission.
Throughout the late 1990s Fred Hickey, the editor of The High-Tech Strategist, was relentlessly critical of the wild market excesses of the time. So-called “bubbleheads” responded ...
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What's new this week It is gratifying to be able to report that the podcast has won another award, the Broadcast Journalist of the Year in the AIC's annual media awards. This is the second year running that the Money Makers podcast has picked up the honour. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my colle...
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Financial historian Edward Chancellor, author of a brilliant recent book, The Price of Time, weighs in on the topical issue of the artificial intelligence boom. Can the massive spending by Big Tech produce enough profits to justify their current share prices? This is his take. An earlier version of this article first appeared on the online financial website, Reuters Breakingviews, and is reproduced with the author's permission.
Tech firms plan to pour trillions of dollars into developing artificial intelligence. Every incremental dollar of new investment carries an even higher value in the ...
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What's new this week On the podcast this week, I talk to Alastair Laing, the CEO of CG Asset Management, the managers of Capital Gearing Trust (CGT), one of a number of "defensive" investment trusts in the flexible investment sector which aim to produce modest but consistent positive returns from one year to the next...
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Can AI mania be justified? No, says financial historian Edward Chancellor, author of a definitive history of past speculative excesses, from the South Sea Bubble onwards, and a brilliant recent book, The Price of Time, about the folly of sustained low interest rates. An earlier version of this article first appeared on the online financial website, Reuters Breakingviews, and is reproduced with the author's permission.
AI - off the rails? The excitement about artificial intelligence is matched only by the technology’s voracious investment needs. Total investment in AI is set to top $1 trilli...
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Should we be concerned about the strength of the US stock market? Absolutely, says financial historian Edward Chancellor, author of a definitive history of past speculative excesses, from the South Sea Bubble onwards, and a brilliant recent book, The Price of Time, about the folly of sustained low interest rates. An earlier version of this article first appeared on the online financial website, Reuters Breakingviews, and is reproduced with the author's permission.
The US stock market has hit 50 new highs so far this year. Investors are now anticipating tax cuts and further fiscal largesse f...
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