Leaning on the stars

THE ALCHEMIST

Be honest. Do you, from time to time, read your horoscope in the daily free papers?

Have you even once, while browsing online, been tempted to glance at your personal or professional horoscope, knowing of course, the predictions are completely interchangeable? As the dog days of August fade, the working world resumes its usual patterns, overlaid this year by thick uncertainty among investors. Our financial system is still in shock – far from fully recovered from its recent ills. World markets continue to flop about without direction. Unused to doing nothing, investors become vulnerable to heterodox economic theories. So, it should be no surprise financial astrology is...