Nickolai Hubble

Choose the lesser of two weevils: inflation or deflation?

I’m reading the books which inspired the film Master and Commander, starring Russell Crowe. A key theme is how much the elements matter. The captains…

When government funds buy government bonds, are they funds at all?

Today, I’d like to dig into what I believe is a financial sleight of hand which politicians have pulled on you, in the hope that…

Why a post-pandemic crash comes before a recovery

The recovery is on! The economy is going to boom now that the Covid-19 pandemic is behind us! Right? Perhaps. But I doubt it’ll be…

Do you trust the government?

It’s time to dig into the reader mailbag. Our coverage of the vaccine… debate… elicited a lot of… less than useful replies. From all sides.…

Energy crisis, or opportunity?

While the energy crisis rages and spreads around the world, savvy investors are pondering a different problem. How can we make money from the mess? In this video, I ask Nigel Farage a simple question. Yet it’s one that has so much baggage…

Energy crisis, or opportunity?

While the energy crisis rages and spreads around the world, savvy investors are pondering a different problem. How can we make money from the mess?…

Simon Popple explains our commodity chaos

It’s the most important investment chart of the next ten years. And our friends at Incrementum AG, who publish the legendary In Gold We Trust…

Simon Popple explains our commodity chaos

If you’ve spent the last few weeks wondering what on earth has happened in commodity and energy markets to cause all this chaos, today’s video is for you. I invited the most knowledgeable and experienced commodity investor I know to explain what’s going on, and what happens next.

This is not the commodity boom you’re looking for

The UK’s resource and energy-driven stock market is in for a spectacular commodity boom as prices surge… right? That was the consensus at a recent…

How the free market stole your gas

I quite like reading the Guardian. It has the guts to publish whistleblowers and do some proper investigative journalism. But it also seems to be…

Why you can’t get petrol, despite Brexit

Petrol chaos, gas price spikes and driver shortages… Energy markets are in chaos. A deluge of requests to ask Nigel Farage the big question were…

Why you can’t get petrol, despite Brexit

Petrol chaos, gas price spikes and driver shortages… Energy markets are in chaos. A deluge of requests to ask Nigel Farage the big question were answered in this video…

What if the new world order is not acceptable to the masses?

A few weeks ago, the New South Wales chief health officer, Dr Kerry Chant, uttered the words “new world order” in a press conference in…

Will the last person to leave Britain please turn off the stock market?

Yesterday we laid out the data for you. We gave you the news stories and headlines about the UK’s coming Winter of Discontent – the…

Another Winter of Discontent is… already here

We try to avoid regurgitating the news in Fortune & Freedom. Unless it’s to dish out ridicule or point out contradictions. But lately, the news…

Name me a financial crisis which central banks can’t paper over with QE

You’ve seen them plastered all over the news. The long list of crises which threaten to wreak havoc on financial markets. And I bet you’re…

The cryptocurrency revolution is more like Les Misérables

It’s not often I disagree with Sam Volkering, despite knowing him since 2010. He likes Australian rules football, I like rugby league… He likes crypto,…

Bonds: risk-free return or return-free risk?

I hit a nerve this week. You see, I mainly know of Nigel Farage because he predicted and explained the European sovereign debt crisis, when…

Bonds: risk-free return or return-free risk?

I hit a nerve this week. You see, I mainly know of Nigel Farage because he predicted and explained the European sovereign debt crisis, when Greece defaulted on its bonds.

All that is solid melts into air

You already know that the financial world is deeply perverted. It’s a landscape in which toxic debt can be packaged up – and leveraged. Where…