Only a few short years ago it seemed that the tech market could do no wrong. Whatever problems the rest of world capitalism faced, the tech industries looked to be moving from success to success, with ever-larger profits each year. But, as Steve Jones (not Jobs) reports, the major technology firms – such as Apple – are now facing an increasingly uncertain future.

The spectre of Lehman Brothers is haunting Europe. Last week, on Monday 26th September, the price of shares in Deutsche bank, Germany’s largest lender, slumped to its lowest level since 1983. A slump of this magnitude in the shares of one of Europe’s biggest banks has dire implications, not only for the eurozone, but for the world economy as a whole.

In the final part of his series on the history and development of money, Adam Booth explores how monetary theories and systems have changed over time in response crises, and looks at the “solutions” proposed to overcome the contradictions facing the money system today. How do we break the spell of the so-called “root of all evil” and free ourselves from these “chains of gold”.