Nickolai Hubble

Prepare for the Powell Putin Pivot

10 August 2022

The recent rally in the stock market was triggered by a perceived pivot in monetary policy. While I’m not so sure central bankers have actually…

Inflation

The Bank of England jumps off both sides of the tightrope at once

Nickolai Hubble

9 August 2022

You could say we’re critical of the Bank of England here at Fortune & Freedom. Nigel Farage certainly didn’t pull any punches in our recent…

GDP, household income, inflation, economy

Financial Independence

How much of our economy is a cost, not a benefit?

Nickolai Hubble

8 August 2022

How much of our economy is actually just an unnecessary inconvenience? How much of our GDP is a measure of economic activity that actually holds…

The City

The Merchants of Monetary Menace, Act 2: The Recession

Nickolai Hubble

5 August 2022

For the past six months, they’ve given us a spiel about inflation. But that was only Act 1 of the Merchants of Monetary Menace. And…

The Merchants of Monetary Menace, Act 2: The Recession

Nickolai Hubble

5 August 2022

For the past six months, they’ve given us a spiel about inflation. But that was only Act 1 of the Merchants of Monetary Menace. And now it’s time for Act 2, with the same theatrics over the coming recession.

Stocks

This is a crisis of underinvestment, say you

Nickolai Hubble

4 August 2022

My article “When soaring profits are a bad sign for stocks” triggered plenty of reader mail. I asked whether underinvestment in the future was leading…

Financial Independence

Have your say about inflation, stagflation and underinvestment

Nickolai Hubble

3 August 2022

The reader mailbox is overflowing with some cracking commentary from… none other than yourselves. There were emails about inflation, discussion of stagflation, commentary on a…

Inflation

3% won’t be enough to stop inflation… nicely

Nickolai Hubble

2 August 2022

Yesterday, I asked you simple question: is it possible to bring down double-digit inflation with 3% interest rates? It would have sounded like an absurd…

Financial Independence

Mortgage borrowers are central bankers’ tools

Nickolai Hubble

1 August 2022

For decades now, mortgage borrowers have had it easy. Each time the economy struggled, they were handed more money to pump it back up again.…

Financial Independence

Monetary policymakers are consistently wrong, at your expense… or profit?

Nickolai Hubble

29 July 2022

Does your investment strategy include the prospect of monetary policymakers getting things completely wrong? Well, it should, according to Nigel Farage. Because they consistently do.…

Monetary policymakers are consistently wrong, at your expense… or profit?

Nickolai Hubble

29 July 2022

For decades now, mortgage borrowers have had it easy. Each time the economy struggled, they were handed more money to pump it back up again.

Inflation

How to beat inflation in 2022

Nickolai Hubble

28 July 2022

What is the current rate of inflation? In June, the annual rate of inflation hit a 40-year high. The consumer price index rose 9.4% year-on-year…

Stocks

When soaring profits are a bad sign for stocks

Nickolai Hubble

28 July 2022

“Profits in the UK are soaring: they’re up 73% at the biggest 350 companies compared with pre-pandemic levels.” It sounds great, doesn’t it? That is…

Inflation

The stagflationary black hole it’s too late to escape from

Nickolai Hubble

27 July 2022

For decades now, economists have warned about the impending demographic time bomb of an ageing society. It’s a prognosis that caught on shortly after they…

A metals-led commodities supercycle

Nickolai Hubble

26 July 2022

If it takes a decade to create a mine, how do supply and demand for commodities find an equilibrium? Badly. The commodities supercycle is driven by the mismatch.

Gold & Commodities

A metals-led commodities supercycle

Nickolai Hubble

26 July 2022

If it takes a decade to create a mine, how do supply and demand for commodities find an equilibrium? Badly. The commodities supercycle is driven…

Gold & Commodities

Europe’s latest war with Russia will end in another winter humiliation

Nickolai Hubble

25 July 2022

Europe is trying to expand its latest empire into Eastern Europe, again. You’d think they’d know better by now… It began… well, it began a…

The Return of Bloody October?

Nickolai Hubble

22 July 2022

Back in 2018, I predicted a meltdown in the stockmarket over Italian elections. I called the prediction Bloody October. And the selloff which began in…

The Return of Bloody October?

Nickolai Hubble

22 July 2022

Back in 2018, I predicted a meltdown in the stockmarket over Italian elections. I called the prediction Bloody October. And the selloff which began in earnest at the end of September delivered the worst year for stocks since 2008.

energy, economic self-sabotage, inflation, government

Financial Independence

Economic self-sabotage can be surprisingly profitable

Nickolai Hubble

21 July 2022

There’s no other way to describe it anymore. Governments around the world are engaging in a long campaign of deliberate economic self-sabotage. And we’re paying…

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