Nickolai Hubble

Financial markets render their verdict on Liz Truss

Well, we didn’t have to wait long. The pound slumped to its lowest level since 1984 on the new prime minister’s first day in office.

Destruction by the dollar, not of the dollar

Yesterday we exposed the truth about the plunging pound. It’s actually bobbing about on the surface of its trade-weighted index – a measure of the…

As unsound as a pound

“Sound as a pound,” my friend used to say. I think he was referring to one of the Scottish ones, though. Which aren’t so sound…

Did the Bank of England kill Goldilocks?

It’s time for some reader mail from your fellow subscribers. It’s great to see a good mix of agreement and disagreement over inflation, the Bank…

How to survive inflation? Ask the survivors…

Two weeks ago, we caught up with John Butler, the man who warned you of our inflation before it happened. In our video, I asked…

How to survive inflation? Ask the survivors…

Two weeks ago, we caught up with John Butler, the man who warned you of our inflation before it happened. In our video, I asked whether he expects inflation to come back down, or to persist. Find out what his answer was here.

Rishi Sunak the Revolutionary…?

What if lockdowns were a mistake? What if even politicians like Rishi Sunak knew they would be? What if they were silenced by unelected and…

Rishi Sunak the Revolutionary…?

What if lockdowns were a mistake? What if even politicians like Rishi Sunak knew they would be? What if they were silenced by unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats who took control of the government, the economy and our basic rights?

The electrification of everything short-circuits the economy

Not so long ago they were talking about the “electrification of everything”. The idea was to have everything in the world run on electricity, as…

How much longer will you put up with these crises?

The news is turning unusually sour. And that’s saying something, after the past two and a half years… It’s not just financial markets though. There’s…

Don’t join the Children’s [Climate] Crusade

[In January of 2021, I published a newsletter advising readers not to invest in the Green Bubble, or Grubble, as I called it. Climate change-related…

If the EU abandons Ukraine, what’ll the UK do?

Two weeks ago, Nigel Farage and I wondered whether the EU would hold out over Winter. But now the UK government is the one concerned the EU will give in to Russia.

Goldilocks is dead. Long live the three bears.

When the economy is humming along just fine, in what they call a “Goldilocks economy” (i.e. not too hot, not too cold but just right),…

Welcome to the Crack-up Boom

The Crack-up Boom was originally known as “Katastrophenhausse” in German. That literally means “catastrophe-boom”. It’s a false surge in economic activity driven by people’s desperate…

“Fat tails” versus the BBC

Almost one year ago, I warned you about extreme events known as “fat tails”. And not just in financial markets. Today I want to renew…

How to invest for stagflation

They say that admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery. But they don’t tell you how many more steps are left……

The recession I ticked off in April is here

We’ve been warning of a recession in Fortune & Freedom for just under a year now. “And then came the recession,” I wrote to you…

The inflation crisis isn’t over. But it is changing…

Why did nobody see inflation coming? That’s what the media is pondering today. Just as they did about the 2008 financial crisis, and every other…

The inflation crisis isn’t over. But it is changing…

Why did nobody see inflation coming? That’s what the media is pondering today. Just as they did about the 2008 financial crisis, and every other significant economic development before that.

How does inflation affect house prices?

We’ve seen inflation spike. And the Bank of England is expecting plenty more inflation to come – over 13% this year! And yet, house prices…