Stocks

How to use weird, strange and bonkers to your advantage

How likely are 1,000% winners? Quantitative vs. qualitative analysis Weird, strange and bonkers Over the last couple of days, we’ve looked at the small-cap markets.…

How do you turn 58,200 stocks into one investment?

How many stocks are in the world? What is a filter and how do you use it? 72% in 11 months from cheap shoes On…

Small-cap investing 101: did you miss the baby formula boom?

2015’s baby formula bonanza 575% in 13 months Your mind vs. the herd mind If you think that you’re ready to have fun in the…

Nuclear climate change

[This issue was originally published on 30 January 2023] In this issue: Nigel Farage: politicians will follow the public on nuclear power (at last) Nick…

Why AI has a three-body problem

I was happily sitting on a bench in Black Swan Park, waiting for something to happen, when it hit me: artificial intelligence (AI) has a…

The cold “Dead Hand” of AI on your foot

Depending on who you listen to, artificial intelligence (AI) will either save us or kill us all. I’d be in the “save us” camp, if…

Has the next global recession already begun?

Here at Southbank Investment Research, we constantly debate the state of the economy and financial markets. Yes, we also discuss the upcoming football, rugby or…

The end of a 20-year bear market in the FTSE 100?

I do very much enjoy the old myth that stock markets like the FTSE 100 go up in the long run. It’s always good for…

AI is utopia for poor people and dystopia for rich people

How do feel about artificial intelligence? Do you see there being more benefits in using AI? Or do you see more drawbacks in using AI…

The only energy transition investors need to focus on

When did it become cool to criticise net zero? After spending most of February and March writing an unexpectedly large report on the implausible energy…

Maybe it’s time for dog coins in your portfolio

Yesterday we looked at the impending spectre of the central bank digital currency (CBDC). Before you read one more word here, please ensure you’ve read…

Why energy investors make and lose copious amounts of money

How long would it take you to drill an oil well or frack a gas well? I haven’t got a clue, and I doubt you…

The energy transition gets a margin call

It sounds like the panacea of all our troubles. The energy transition promises seemingly free energy. After all, what does the sun and the wind…

How many trillion must unrealised losses be before they matter?

Yesterday’s analysis of the banking crisis we face was disappointingly vague. But at least we got much of the theory out of the way. Today,…

When Canary Bank drops dead, you don’t stay in the coalmine

If a canary in a coalmine drops dead, do you spend your time debating whether bird flu is contagious or not? That’s what all the…

Is the FTSE 100 designed to always win?

If you think that you’re ready to have fun in the market, to be looking at and then investing in the weird, strange and bonkers…

The truth about inflation emerges at last

The great debate of 2022 was about the nature of our inflation. 2021 was the year in which it was settled that prices would go…

Nigel Farage on stocks, mortgages and Europe’s energy crisis in 2023

Whatever happens to US stocks in 2023, it can’t be worse than 2022… can it? Well, have the issues that sunk stocks in 2022 been…

The snapback boom of 2023

[Yesterday’s Fortune & Freedom delved into the claim that 2022 was the worst year ever for investors. Today, eternal optimist and editor of Frontier Tech…

Yes, it really was the worst year ever for investors… sort of

The statisticians and newspaper headline writers are falling over each other with claims of just how bad 2022 really was for investors. Online magazine Money…