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The Ruffer Review

Our annual publication, sharing some investment thinking
Hemispheres of Influence
An epic bull market in magical thinking has dominated the world in recent years. Now, real world tectonic shifts are driving us into a more inflation-prone and volatile regime. But it’s our divided brains and their relationship with technology which may hold the key to navigating the risks and opportunities of this new era.
Fifty shades of beige
How can we translate the unstructured data of the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book economic updates into a tool with predictive power? Use an eighteenth century statistical theorem, of course – a theorem which also prevented the early internet being buried under a mountain of spam.
Gone with the win-win?
A massive change in perceptions is needed to take into account the true environmental and social costs of businesses' operations. Guest contributor Duncan Austin suggests that perhaps sustainability is less a market opportunity and much more a moral challenge.
American Pie
The ancien régime of low inflation and free money is over. The painful adjustment process has further to run, with scope for mishaps as liquidity drains from the system. The market dreams of a Goldilocks scenario, just right for risky assets. But will the bears be kept at bay?
Ruffer Review 2023
The 2023 Ruffer Review explores why liquidity concerns may spoil the market’s hopes for a Goldilocks scenario, why the monetary cavalry may arrive too late to save Wall Street and why understanding our divided brains may be the key to navigating this new regime of inflation volatility and geopolitical conflict. And much, much more.
Deserting discs
“I don’t even know why I would want to be on a label in a few years, because I don’t think it’s going to work by labels and by the distribution systems in the same way... music itself is going to become like running water or electricity” David Bowie, 2002
The art of bubble spotting
Anyone can be taken in by financial bubbles; that's why they're so dangerous.
Thinking in narratives
Stories have always influenced human behaviour: our decision-making is often driven more by a good tale than objective facts and data. But stories can defy reality only for so long.
The Great Restoration
Humanity has the capacity to cure climate change – the question is not so much “can we?” as “will we?” Guest author Tim Kruger may have an answer.
The game that goes on
President Theodore Roosevelt was hailed for dismantling the powerful monopolies which emerged from America’s industrial revolution. Does his trustbusting provide a blueprint for what investors can expect from a revitalised antitrust movement on Capitol Hill?
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London
Ruffer LLP
80 Victoria Street
London SW1E 5JL
Paris
Ruffer S.A.
103 boulevard Haussmann
75008 Paris, France
New York
Ruffer LLC
300 Park Avenue
New York NY 10022
Edinburgh
Ruffer LLP
31 Charlotte Square
Edinburgh EH2 4ET