Plus ça change

Sean Corrigan, Diapason Commodities Management chief investment strategist, has been doing his homework, and has found that the history books warn of the dangers of the over-extension of credit in an 'unexampled state of prosperity.' Might history repeat itself?

Fashions, whether of mind or manners, come and go in their turn, each oblivious to the seemingly inexorable march of technological progress. Despite this underlying cyclicality, each succeeding generation likes to allow its scientific and material prowess to flatter it that its own era is truly unique and that it is, of course, the brightest and best of all the many Sons of Men. If there is one single thing which should give the lie to this particular conceit, it must be the long, inglorious