Financial crisis

Why attitudes to gold have changed

Jill Leyland investigates why the events of recent years, in particular the financial crisis, have tipped the balance away from net official sector selling towards net buying of gold.

How Ireland is reforming its central bank

A change of leadership offers Ireland’s central bank an opportunity to assert its independence from the country’s much maligned political and banking elite. It is doing much to grasp it, Claire Jones finds.

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