Nickolai Hubble

Hats off to renewable energy, it’s pulled our pants down

Renewable energy is providing 100% of our electricity needs in ever more places. Which begs the question, why do we need more? And will adding more help or hinder our energy transition?

Take your pick: Liz Truss, the Japanese yen or austerity?

It must be getting very awkward over at the Bank of England. Inflation is ticking back up again. But can the government afford a higher interest rate?

The stock market is not a free market anymore

Last week, I claimed that sellers are now in control of stock market prices. Buyers are nothing more than passive aggressive investing zombies. But was I right? Readers have their say…

Will history repeat for Labour’s pension taxes?

Our readers still rage about Gordon Brown’s surprise pension tax raid of 1997. But what pension tax plans are lurking in Labour’s hidden manifesto this time? We’re going to find out the hard way, reckons Nigel Farage.

Who is going to pay for your retirement?

The money must come from somewhere. Whether its taxpayers, home buyers or investors, someone has to fork up the cash you use in retirement. But is there enough to go round?

The high price of diversification in portfolios and power supply

American finance professor Harry Markowitz said, “diversification is the only free lunch in investing”. Students have been regurgitating his theories ever since. But was he wrong?

What is the meaning of this, price?

Stock markets used to function very differently. Legendary investor Bill Fleckenstein reminisced about it in an interview. Insight, analysis and fundamentals used to drive prices up or down. But that’s changed…

How you could profit from a bubble’s boom and its bust

Very few investors manage to profit from both the boom and the bust of an asset bubble. So, what can we learn from the only trader to have done it, twice?

The weakest link in the renewables rollout threatens to sink net zero

In this issue: Renewable energy will fail. I’ve found the scapegoat. The weakest link of the energy transition isn’t renewables Some industries rely on impossible…

Why nuclear power can’t save us from renewables

Are you hoping for a nuclear power revival in the UK? Enough baseload power to save us from the intermittency of renewables might sound good. Here’s why it won’t work…

4 more ways to potentially profit from the failure of renewable energy

In October 2021, Nigel and I discussed whether coal might be the best way to profit from the failure of renewable energy. As the failure of renewables continues to unfold, I’d like to give you several more such opportunities.

We’re going to run the great carbon experiment, whether governments like it or not

The international community of bureaucrats, politicians and activists have fallen victim to their own diagnosis of the free market’s failings. They just can’t act in concert to save the planet from climate change.

Can the Bank of England compete with bitcoin?

Currency competition may well be inconceivable to us. Having multiple forms of money floating around an economy sounds like complete chaos. But what if it’s going to happen anyway?

How cryptocurrencies saved my step-grandfather’s life in 1945

It may seem like cryptocurrencies came out of nowhere. Bitcoin wasn’t there one day… and existed the next. But the truth is that it was in development for decades.

The bizarre blame game undermining our electricity grid

What would energy shortages do to cryptocurrency prices? The bitcoin supply shock is now just a week away Will the electricity grid undermine the energy…

Crypto Coup at Fortune & Freedom

Every four years, the new supply of bitcoin crashes. And you can imagine what happens to the price… but what’s the best way to potentially profit? Find out in this video with crypto expert Sam Volkering.

Why the decentralisation of energy cannot occur with renewables

“Decentralised” has become enough of a buzzword to be rendered meaningless. Everyone has their own definition these days. And every tech company’s marketing department uses the word “decentralised” to describe their latest innovation.

Europe’s Populist Reformation revives on 6 June 2024

With the European Parliament elections coming this June, I thought it’s time to dig out the analysis that convinced Nigel Farage to work with me on Fortune & Freedom five years ago. Despite the absence of Nigel’s rather large contingent of eurosceptics, the upcoming European elections offer the first real chance of functional opposition to the European Commission’s flood of directives.

What if our readers demand an end to climate policies?

My article about the equation that gives oil and gas a new lease on life created a flood of feedback. We dug into some of it yesterday. At the end I asked readers a question: given the shortfall of investment in green energy, “How will governments seek to solve the equation R + F = L?”

Reader mail: Does R + F = L?

My article about the equation that gives oil and gas a new lease on life has stirred up the reader mail inbox. Thanks for your feedback. Believe it or not, all of it was thoughtful and civil enough to publish…