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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.

Is Germany the epicentre of the next banking crisis?

Germany’s banks are a thorn in the side of the EU German house prices and industry are crashing Has the next global banking crisis already…

Why is the climate revolt contained to the eurozone?

The EU has backed down on climate policies But what if they have a much bigger problem? Just ask the Germans what could go wrong…

The tide has turned on net zero

It’s not just Rishi Sunak reversing net zero pledges now The EU gives in to the farmers of Europe Hydrogen won’t save the green dream…

Will the Brussels Manure Party change history?

Smugglers demanding “no taxation without representation”…? Did EU farmers really think they could get paid to go fallow forever? It’s competition they fear, not climate…

How will immigration change politics?

Nigel wouldn’t stop talking about immigration… during the pandemic Immigration is now the number-one political issue What happens next? The first time I met Nigel…

The martyrs of democracy will haunt us in 2025

2024 is an election year like no other But the outcome of the elections won’t matter Losing loser’s consent will wreak havoc in 2025 In…

The radioactive revolution has begun

People have had enough of climate alarmism Green energy is leaving millions without the energy they want Nuclear power is booming and uranium is soaring…

Nuclear horse and cart won’t save the EU now

The UK’s surprising uranium project What might nuclear fuel be used for…? The politics of 2024 will rival 2016 While governments around the world renew…

Are you afraid of Dutch chrysanthemums, Brexiteers?

The eurozone is experiencing Brexit’s worst forecasts The European Medicines Agency is paying the price What is Brexit’s Covid-free counterfactual? All of the worst predictions…

The week in review according to the Iron Lady

Margaret Thatcher reviews this week’s news… from 1999 China and Russia remain the key geopolitical opponents The UK still has the opportunity of divergence from…

Autumn Statement or Black Friday sale spruiker?

A tax cut that increases the tax burden?! De-banking Down Under style Who’s to blame for inflation? With Nigel Farage digesting all sorts of things…

If Russia can escape sanctions, who’s next?

Russia has successfully evaded Western sanctions Other countries are now willing to openly oppose the West Ukraine and Israel are symptoms of a bigger trend…

What does the stock market think of the vaccines now?

Vaccine makers’ share prices are plunging Italy’s debt is under review US mortgage rates are beyond dangerously high After a recent plunge, Moderna, Pfizer and…

Welcome to a multi-polar world, investors

The attacks on Israel are part of a broader trend Housing policy is the key political issue of 2024, but the key parties are indistinguishable…

The dire state of euro-area bank and sovereign credit

How much debt are euro-area financial institutions carrying? Economic stagnation looms Bob Lyddon explains the challenges the euro area faces to survive Bob Lyddon is a…

Turning points for Brexit, housing and net zero?

Is Rishi Sunak’s housing plan a Brexit success? How far will house prices fall? Blade Runners versus net zero It was a week of turning…

Brexit causes a recession… in the eurozone?

Well, the consequences of Brexit have finally struck home. The eurozone is in recession while the UK has escaped the same fate, for now. Who…

The end of Covid emergency measures will unleash familiar emergencies

The Covid era allowed governments to paper over a long list of imminent crises. Extreme fiscal policy kept economies on life support. Extreme monetary policy…

Will hidden liabilities bring down the euro?

An advertisement changed my life. While working as an investment strategist on Wall Street in 1993, I came across a similar position advertised in The…