Nickolai Hubble

Don’t worry about CBDCs: they won’t work anyway

Have you ever encountered a good or service provided by the government that actually worked properly? What does this bode for the government’s plans to…

It’s too late to cut taxes or hike taxes to save the UK

If cutting taxes causes an absolute meltdown in the bond market, bad enough to cost a chancellor and then a prime minister their jobs, and…

Investing is a game where the rules can be changed

My little sister is seven years younger, which made playing board games a very bad option when we were growing up. Every time I pulled…

Why would the British people be for CBDCs?

Now that the nature of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) is dawning on the people who still bother to read or listen to the…

Jeremy Hunt and Andrew Bailey conceive a CBDC

It’s finally official. The UK government has plans to launch a central bank digital currency (CBDC). But what does it mean? And what does it…

Jeremy Hunt and Andrew Bailey conceive a CBDC

It’s finally official. The UK government has plans to launch a central bank digital currency (CBDC). But what does it mean? And what does it…

The boogie man of deflation is waiting under your bed already

Inflation is falling so fast around the world that some analysts are already warning about deflation. The idea is that central bankers are behaving like…

Welcome to The Green Games: don’t move, or you’ll be shot

What would you do to save the planet? What would you be willing to do to cut your carbon emissions to net zero? Those might…

The gods of interest rates are in for their second humiliation

Central bankers are omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. They have a limitless budget to control interest rates, and cannot go bust – so, they’re omnipotent. They…

Readers respond: is the energy crisis over?

You’ll have to forgive me for writing this a bit slowly today. As you would’ve heard in Friday’s video, my wisdom teeth came out on…

Our man in the gas market knew the truth in September…

Last week, Nigel Farage warned that our energy crisis may only be beginning. But this week, we hear from James Allen, our energy expert at…

Our man in the gas market knew the truth in September…

Last week, Nigel Farage warned that our energy crisis may only be beginning. But this week, we hear from James Allen, our energy expert at…

I’ve discovered the top-secret plan to write off our national debt

A few weeks ago, I discovered the government’s plan to write off the UK’s national debt. It’s based on a similar scheme used by the…

Is the energy crisis over, or just beginning?

Tomorrow I’ll be recording a video with our energy expert James Allen. I’ll ask him whether the energy crisis is over, or just beginning. We’ll…

Sunak reverses Sutton’s Law on you

When the famous bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he famously responded, “Because that’s where the money is.” This insight led…

The energy crisis at the end of the rainbow

While UK energy users shut off their appliances to avoid a blackout, their electricity gets sent to Ireland… UK savers who tried to prepare for…

Excess deaths are getting mighty awkward now…

Sir James Dyson has argued in the Telegraph that big government’s short-sighted policies mean, “on current trends, the average British family will be poorer than…

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…

Has the political climate changed on climate change politics?

The first cold weather of the year is testing Europe’s energy grid. How has the UK fared so far? And what’ll it mean for climate…

The Green Energy Revolution is going the way of the French Revolution

The French Revolution didn’t work out so well. In the end, it merely replaced one despot with another… after some seriously bloody turmoil in between……