In 2012, US authorities confiscated and kept US$20,000 of a Danish policeman’s money because he tried to buy Cuban cigars from Germany. You might think…
And you thought the last two Christmases were bad! Surging power bills, gas shortages, strikes, transport chaos, healthcare chaos, blackouts, the prospect of nuclear war…
I don’t often shout at books or bang tables. But in November, I interviewed comedian, social commentator and Triggernometry podcast founder and host Konstantin Kisin…
English is a boring language. “Suicide mission” doesn’t leave much to the imagination. Other nations have elegant euphemisms to describe European energy policy. The Japanese…
Brexit and Trump happened under comparatively benign conditions compared to the last two years. So… what’ll the future hold for populism? Will governments raid pension…
Wobbling bond markets around the world are signalling that Margaret Thatcher’s famous criticism of socialism may finally have been affirmed. They’re finally running out of…
This inflation thing is getting nasty. Strikes, protests, blame games and snarky comments are springing up. It’s as if all the textbooks and history books…
How the worm has turned over the past few months. The very pillars of our society are wobbling away. The things we believed and presumed are gone. They’ve been replaced with alternatives that were unthinkable only months ago.
Demographic decline is an unfamiliar problem for investors. Populations haven’t shrunk before. Well, not outside of a pandemic. But, now that the pandemic is over…
The best thing about bitcoin was how everyday people finally got one up on the City. While professional investors were busy denigrating cryptocurrencies, punters made millions or even billions off the new tech. It was the first bottom-up investment boom since the last gold rush.
Why are mortgages a hot topic today? Complaining about interest rates has become a national sport. Actually, it’s become an international sport. That’s because central…