Nickolai Hubble

A perfect storm for green energy stocks in 2024?

What if the green energy boom and bust cycle has nothing to do with green energy at all? And what if the conditions that gave rise to an extraordinary boom in clean energy stocks in 2020 and 2021 are about to reappear in 2024?

The three-body problem that’ll give oil and gas a new lease on life

Shell argued that investment in renewable energy is falling short of what is needed to reach net zero by 2050. Far short. Because of this, investment in fossil fuels need to increase.

The price of failing to achieve net zero

News stories about net zero failures are coming thick and fast now. I have run out of space on my internet browser to keep them all to hand. It’s a bit embarrassing, really.

The latest new low in the Bank of England’s inflation scam

Hjalmar Schacht believed one simple act is the key to putting inflation back into Pandora’s box. And he would know. The man credited with ending Germany’s hyperinflation saw his autobiography re-titled to Confessions of the Old Wizard by its French and American publishers. Not bad for a Nazi.

UK steps on the gas amid renewables’ headwinds

The Sunak government has announced the latest flinch away from net zero. New gas power plants are to be in the mix after all. But what does this mean for our future energy system?

How to invest in a perverted stock market

Now that you know how the rich are abusing the stock market to their advantage, and what it means for our economy, it’s time to figure out what we can do about it. But first, I’d like to add one last way in which stock markets have been undermined.

Rise of the Boardroom Soviets

Yesterday we exposed how private equity and venture capital are front running you in the stockmarket. The 1% are using stockmarket listings as an exit strategy. They list their private companies to sell out of their exclusive gotten gains. This differs markedly from a stockmarket’s true purpose: to raise capital for companies trying to expand.

Access Denied: sucking out the stock market’s soul

Do you remember the days when people would speak about the stock market instead of bitcoin? Water cooler conversations featured BP and BT instead of bitcoin and Ethereum. At family barbeques people would whisper to each other about small caps from the uncharted waters outside the FTSE 100 they’d “taken a punt” on.

How much longer can the housing crisis last?

Having a two-party system gives the political class a hidden power. They can collectively decide which political issues are genuinely up for debate… and which are not to be mentioned. The housing crisis is certainly not for discussion. Even if it is the giant woolly mammoth in the room.

Cultural Marxism costs money too

There are two ways to look at the world The individual has good incentives, the group does not From victimisation to victimhood (Your browser might…

Can you fix society’s potholes by voting them out?

The interest is accruing into a dangerously large problem If governments can fix roads, can they fix Ukraine or the climate? Who would fix the…

It has all gone so dreadfully wrong for the Establishment

When it rains, it pours for those in power Have the people suddenly woken up? How will the Establishment respond? Our Betters have been very…

Don’t worry, it won’t work anyway

How much anguish would this simple belief have spared you? Governments are coming for you, but they’re not very good at it Don’t fear the…

Has the Bank of England lost the inflation plot, again?

The market versus the central banks Inflation is rising again Will wage growth be blamed for inflation and deflation? When it comes to inflation, who…

It doesn’t matter how beautiful your tech is if it doesn’t fit into the puzzle of life

Technology that doesn’t fit doesn’t work Can we make AI fit into our reality? The challenges AI faces to succeed My grandfather passed away a…

If investing is all about bubbles, then this is the motza

Rollercoasters are fun, asset bubbles are not What inflates up, must pop down Some investors know how to play a bubble (Your browser might be…

How to get rich when AI blows a fuse

How are we going to power AI? AI’s poor sense of timing is a historic opportunity The shovels to AI’s golden nuggets (Your browser might…

Is Germany the epicentre of the next banking crisis?

Germany’s banks are a thorn in the side of the EU German house prices and industry are crashing Has the next global banking crisis already…

Why is the climate revolt contained to the eurozone?

The EU has backed down on climate policies But what if they have a much bigger problem? Just ask the Germans what could go wrong…

How does a mania like climate change actually end though?

Following the science that changes We’re all Anabaptists now What’ll be the next climate change catastrophe? Leaders around the world are withdrawing, delaying and reversing…