Nickolai Hubble

We’re going to run the great carbon experiment, whether governments like it or not

The international community of bureaucrats, politicians and activists have fallen victim to their own diagnosis of the free market’s failings. They just can’t act in concert to save the planet from climate change.

Can the Bank of England compete with bitcoin?

Currency competition may well be inconceivable to us. Having multiple forms of money floating around an economy sounds like complete chaos. But what if it’s going to happen anyway?

How cryptocurrencies saved my step-grandfather’s life in 1945

It may seem like cryptocurrencies came out of nowhere. Bitcoin wasn’t there one day… and existed the next. But the truth is that it was in development for decades.

The bizarre blame game undermining our electricity grid

What would energy shortages do to cryptocurrency prices? The bitcoin supply shock is now just a week away Will the electricity grid undermine the energy…

Crypto Coup at Fortune & Freedom

Every four years, the new supply of bitcoin crashes. And you can imagine what happens to the price… but what’s the best way to potentially profit? Find out in this video with crypto expert Sam Volkering.

Why the decentralisation of energy cannot occur with renewables

“Decentralised” has become enough of a buzzword to be rendered meaningless. Everyone has their own definition these days. And every tech company’s marketing department uses the word “decentralised” to describe their latest innovation.

Europe’s Populist Reformation revives on 6 June 2024

With the European Parliament elections coming this June, I thought it’s time to dig out the analysis that convinced Nigel Farage to work with me on Fortune & Freedom five years ago. Despite the absence of Nigel’s rather large contingent of eurosceptics, the upcoming European elections offer the first real chance of functional opposition to the European Commission’s flood of directives.

What if our readers demand an end to climate policies?

My article about the equation that gives oil and gas a new lease on life created a flood of feedback. We dug into some of it yesterday. At the end I asked readers a question: given the shortfall of investment in green energy, “How will governments seek to solve the equation R + F = L?”

Reader mail: Does R + F = L?

My article about the equation that gives oil and gas a new lease on life has stirred up the reader mail inbox. Thanks for your feedback. Believe it or not, all of it was thoughtful and civil enough to publish…

Can Japan survive without monetary life support?

One month ago, I moved to Japan. We plan to stay about a year. The idea is to keep the kids bi-lingual. I managed to rope my Dad into joining us for a week. We needed his help on the flights. The middle child is a bit of a handful, especially on a plane. I like to say that if she had been born when I was, we’d have lost the Cold War. But we managed to keep her busy. It only took the combined efforts of everyone on the plane though…

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 There’s a lot…