Nickolai Hubble

Don’t mention the war genocide

Nigel Farage is usually full of humour. But genocide doesn’t exactly lend itself to Friday Funnies… Nor, apparently, is it good politics to acknowledge the genocide going on in “a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing,” as Chamberlain once said…

How demographics control stock markets

Let me ask you a question: do you believe that stock markets go up in the long run? Why? Because it’s what you’ve been told…

Energy and Nigel Farage make the green transition. Should you?

Nigel Farage once voted for the Greens in EU elections… because they were the only eurosceptic option on the ballot. These days, the EU itself…

How to turn your portfolio green

Since we launched Fortune & Freedom, you’ve heard from our cryptocurrency expert Sam Volkering a few times. Today, I’d like you to discover his other…

The euro is a source of European conflict, not a solution to it

There were plenty of warnings. It was clear that the euro was inherently flawed. And we also knew how the problems would manifest themselves too.…

EU vaccine madness is infecting the UK stock market

Covid is back in Europe. But it’s also infected the UK stock market. Stocks that were supposed to benefit from the recovery are struggling. On…

Chapter 1 of How the Euro Dies

This ain’t no bedtime story. It’s a morbid tale. Of how the euro came to be. And how it will die. The only good news…

The US dollar is doomed. But how?

Some call it an exorbitant privilege. Others a curse. Either way, having the title of “world’s global reserve currency” is temporary. And the Americans are…

Is a Brexit Breakout on the cards?

In late February we took a look at just how bad things were going for Project Fear. And predicted that Covid-19 would dish out their…

The case against the euro

The Case Against the Fed is a book by Murray Rothbard. It explains why central banks like the US Federal Reserve are such a disastrous…

The Tragedy of the Euro

We may have escaped both the euro and the EU. But there’s a problem. We’re still tied, economically and financially, to both projects. That’s as it should be. As the economist Frédéric Bastiat wrote, “When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will”. Trade with the continent is a good thing.

The Tragedy of the Euro

It was the prospect of the euro which brought Nigel Farage into politics. Its predecessor, the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM), was so disastrous that Nigel…

If they can’t manage a vaccine, can they manage a common currency?

The euro is held together by political will. It makes no economic sense. But eurozone leaders want it nonetheless. But what happens if that political…

Nigel Farage on How the Euro Dies

Nigel Farage and Nickolai Hubble discuss why the euro is doomed to fail, and review the book that explains how it’ll happen: How the Euro…

Two financial insiders reveal what can go wrong in their industry

The Fortune & Freedom mailbox makes for depressing reading on most days. When we decided to “take on” the financial industry, I didn’t realise it…

Nigel Farage’s Budget response to Rishi Sunak

After the chancellor delivers the Budget, the opposition gives a reply. But what reply would Nigel Farage give to Rishi Sunak’s Budget? Nick Hubble Editor,…

Interest rate “communists” rule Great Britain

We live in a world of interest rate “communists”. Governments, not the free market, set our interest rates. It’s one of the last vestiges of…

“I just abhor and distrust the system”

We recently received a cracking email from D.T. at the Fortune & Freedom mailbox (nickolai@fortuneandfreedom.com). It deserves a response. One that affects all of you…

Catching Apophis to save humanity (from itself and another asteroid)

If the obvious, unavoidable and inevitable economic implosion of the world because of Brexit is getting you down, I have some good news. The next…

How a currency reset will unfold

Over the past two weeks, we’ve dug into the past, present and future of currency resets. First John Butler gave his take. And, given he…