Nickolai Hubble

How to profit from the coming Currency Reset

Another Currency Reset is coming. Our US dollar-based international monetary system is at the end of its tether. But what does that mean for investors?…

The Boris and Bailey clown act is just depressing now

Usually, there’s a happy clown and a sad clown. Although, in my case, I was more of an evil juggling jester twice a week. The only performance in which I didn’t drop a ball or hit myself with a devil stick at some point ended when I slipped spectacularly and landed flat on my back.

Three very quiet cheers for the FTSE 100!

Did you see the headline in the Guardian? “UK Sidesteps Worst Stockmarket Crash in Half A Century!” Nope, I didn’t see it either. And yet……

Global currency reset

What is the global currency reset? What if I told you that, every few decades, the world’s leaders meet in a swanky hotel, picturesque palace…

A crash without a cause… yet

It’s one of the worst on record. It’s perhaps the worst once you factor in the combined losses in stocks and bonds. Or how much…

The sanctions will continue until morale improves

Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. But he wasn’t the one to impose sanctions on Russian energy. So, who will get the blame for the West’s energy…

Hedonic adjustments and inflation Down Under

Years ago, at the Rugby 7s in New Zealand, I found myself talking to a young lady from England. She’d found a working holiday job…

Show me the central bankers’ incentive, and I’ll show you the inflationary outcome

People often wonder how the hell inflation got so badly out of control in Weimar in Germany. Well, you’re about to find out. And not…

How to Profit from the Brexit Boom

Because we live in a global financial centre, it is easy for British investors to profit from any conceivable trend. From Australian small-cap gold miners…

Russia waited for the Beijing Olympics to end. China, too…

A few months ago, the New York Times reported “China Asked Russia to Delay Ukraine War Until After Olympics”. But what if they weren’t the…

Germany dismasted, just as Trump warned

Winston Churchill famously championed the Royal Navy’s shift from coal to oil. Looking back, it seems like a no-brainer today. Unless you’re in charge of…

Is this the beginning or the end of the 1970s?

History continues to rhyme as well as American Pie. And now you can add strikes to the list. The big question is whether this is…

Is this the beginning or the end of the 1970s?

History continues to rhyme as well as American Pie. And now you can add strikes to the list. The big question is whether this is the beginning or the end of the 1970s…

Snoop Dogg for Bank of England governor?

There’s an old adage that central banking is all about having the guts to “take away the punchbowl just when the party gets going”. Unfortunately…

Nowhere to hide from the collapse of the everything bubble

This bear market is unusually challenging for investors because there is nowhere to hide. The selloff includes just about everything – every asset class. This…

How the eurozone could turn Japanese – inflation not deflation

Last week, a tax accountant in Japan messaged me: “I’m afraid of the collapse of the Japanese economy…” Luckily, he speaks fluent English after a…

How to misunderstand inflation and cause a global financial crisis

I’m going to sound like a high-school economics teacher today. But the world’s central bankers have been very naughty… They’ve completely failed their test to…

The everything bubble has burst

They called it the everything bubble while it was inflating. Rarely do the mainstream media and consensus get it so right on the way up.

But where can you hide now that it has burst? If everything was caught up in the bubble, then everything now must crash…

The Everything Bubble has burst at last. Now what?

They called it the Everything Bubble while it was inflating. Rarely do the mainstream media get it so right on the way up. But all…

A bull market in burnable effigies, but not much else

Today’s Fortune & Freedom is an update on a series of themes we’ve been exploring for months now. Whether Japan has unleased a monetary Pearl…