The aircraft that blew up the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington conveyed several messages to the world, of which one of t…

- James Buchan

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a m…

- James Buchan

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

- James Buchan

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.

- James Buchan

To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to…

- James Buchan

Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.

- James Buchan

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of securi…

- James Buchan

Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasio…

- James Buchan

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-…

- James Buchan