Nickolai Hubble

Will the last person to leave Britain please turn off the stock market?

Yesterday we laid out the data for you. We gave you the news stories and headlines about the UK’s coming Winter of Discontent – the…

Another Winter of Discontent is… already here

We try to avoid regurgitating the news in Fortune & Freedom. Unless it’s to dish out ridicule or point out contradictions. But lately, the news…

Name me a financial crisis which central banks can’t paper over with QE

You’ve seen them plastered all over the news. The long list of crises which threaten to wreak havoc on financial markets. And I bet you’re…

The cryptocurrency revolution is more like Les Misérables

It’s not often I disagree with Sam Volkering, despite knowing him since 2010. He likes Australian rules football, I like rugby league… He likes crypto,…

Bonds: risk-free return or return-free risk?

I hit a nerve this week. You see, I mainly know of Nigel Farage because he predicted and explained the European sovereign debt crisis, when…

Bonds: risk-free return or return-free risk?

I hit a nerve this week. You see, I mainly know of Nigel Farage because he predicted and explained the European sovereign debt crisis, when Greece defaulted on its bonds.

All that is solid melts into air

You already know that the financial world is deeply perverted. It’s a landscape in which toxic debt can be packaged up – and leveraged. Where…

AUKUS rules the waves around China

Two weeks ago, I asked Nigel Farage about events in Afghanistan and what it would mean for defence spending and defence stocks. Here’s what he…

The bond market is a much more dangerous bubble

Bonds are a key part of almost any investor’s portfolio. But lately, something odd has been going on in the bond market… And don’t forget…

The bond market is a much more dangerous bubble

Bonds are a key part of almost any investor’s portfolio. But lately, something odd has been going on in the bond market…

The bond market is now a lose-lose-lose proposition

Would you invest in an asset that loses your money each year? Because you’re probably doing just that, via the bond market. But it’s about…

Madame Legarde is a tapering data-slave in a Catch-22

Today, we take on the French in the guise of European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde. But, if you prefer the Germans, check out…

The risk of a recession is rising fast

Two weeks ago, I warned you about the risk of a recession. And what it would mean for asset prices. Since then, that risk of…

Immigration and vaccines and politics, oh my!

The reader mailbag is bulging after a few weeks of hitting controversial and dividing topics. Discussing immigration, vaccines and the inherent flaws of government policies…

Never believe anything until the October lockdown is denied

The government has denied plans for an October lockdown. Does that mean we’re in for one? What would Nigel Farage do if he were premier…

Never believe anything until the October lockdown is denied

The government has denied plans for an October lockdown. Does that mean we’re in for one? What would Nigel Farage do if he were premier of Queensland, and why does it matter?

The countdown to lockdown

Of course they won’t call it that. But the media and the protesters will. And it’ll feel like one. The countdown to our next lockdown…

Inflation can no longer be ignored by stocks or central bankers

Yesterday’s Fortune & Freedom explained how central bankers have managed to avoid acknowledging the side-effects of their misbehaviour for so long. But the trends which…

Stocks get another tobacco smoke enema through their annual Jackson Hole

What happens when you mistake a symptom for a disease? Because that’s just what central bankers are doing right now. And their mistake is all…

Is Pax Americana over? And what comes next?

Afghanistan is all over the headlines, but what does it mean for financial markets and defence stocks in particular? Will nations afraid of being abandoned…