author - oman observer

Fifty years ago, the US stock market was in turmoil. Between January 1973 and September 1974, the S&P 500 Index fell by nearly 50 per cent. With the benefit of hindsight, this decline was the second...

Extremely high house prices in the United Kingdom largely reflect the extraordinarily low interest rates of recent years. As the Bank of England tightens monetary policy to curtail inflation, rising...

There is much excited chatter that automation will unleash a Fourth Industrial Revolution, building on earlier upheavals caused by the arrival of steam power, electricity, and semiconductors. Yet in...