Stocks

Signs of a speculative mania in the stockmarket

Things are getting weird out there. Financial markets are exhibiting the same signs of mental illness and instability that our locked-down population is. Protests, bouts…

Your spinach is watching you

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Axios sums it up like this: “Researchers at MIT have devised a way to allow chemical signals…

Banking is in decline, but is it terminal?

The world’s banks are under siege. Cryptocurrencies threaten to undermine banking altogether. Banks’ lending activities are attracting ever less interest thanks to central bank policies,…

Why Britain will boom after Covid-19

The world is increasingly divided. Into the hads and had nots. The nations that had widespread Covid-19 outbreaks and those that didn’t. As horrific as…

Return of the Emperor, at last

Let me show you a pair of stock market charts… They’re both of Japan’s Nikkei 225 index. The first tells you a miserable story. Japan’s…

Focus on the flights that are there

With the Fortune & Freedom production team still recovering from whatever they got up to this Christmas, we’ll be reviewing a “best of” series of…

Will Joe Biden sink the US stock market by mistake?

I’ve never written an article which encapsulates so many of our themes at Fortune & Freedom all at once. Investing, the stock market, the US…

Stock Market Santa Claus exposed

Yesterday we discovered the identify of Stock Market Santa Claus. A lot of central banks around the world are bidding up stock markets by buying…

Who really controls the stockmarket?

Not so long ago, asking that question would’ve got you laughed at. The stockmarket isn’t controlled, after all. It’s a marketplace of buyers and sellers,…

Covid tiers, Brexit tears and vaccine smears

We’ve left lockdown… sort of… We’ve left the EU… sort of… And we’ve got a vaccine… sort of… I asked Nigel Farage about this week’s…