Financial Independence

The boogie man of deflation is waiting under your bed already

Inflation is falling so fast around the world that some analysts are already warning about deflation. The idea is that central bankers are behaving like…

Welcome to The Green Games: don’t move, or you’ll be shot

What would you do to save the planet? What would you be willing to do to cut your carbon emissions to net zero? Those might…

The gods of interest rates are in for their second humiliation

Central bankers are omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. They have a limitless budget to control interest rates, and cannot go bust – so, they’re omnipotent. They…

Readers respond: is the energy crisis over?

You’ll have to forgive me for writing this a bit slowly today. As you would’ve heard in Friday’s video, my wisdom teeth came out on…

Sunak reverses Sutton’s Law on you

When the famous bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he famously responded, “Because that’s where the money is.” This insight led…

The energy crisis at the end of the rainbow

While UK energy users shut off their appliances to avoid a blackout, their electricity gets sent to Ireland… UK savers who tried to prepare for…

King dollar is dead. Long live… whatever’s next?

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…

Readers explain how tighter monetary policy actually causes inflation

Last week we received the highest quality and quantity of reader mail I have ever seen. You flooded the Fortune & Freedom inbox in response…

The evil twins of inflation and taxes are robbing you blind

“Taxes are the price we pay for civilisation,” claimed Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Judging by the current record high level of taxation in the UK,…

Will “monetary martial law” be implemented in Britain?

I have some New Year reading for you. It’s not very cheerful, I’m afraid. But it is very important. Warning you about a profound threat…

Christmas with the cannibals?

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…

The Ministry of Truth is in trouble now

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…

The UK is praying for a Kamikaze to fan its Himmelfahrtskommando energy policy

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…

The property escalator is going into reverse

All around the world, property bubbles are popping and prices are falling. Even in the bubble bastion of Australia, prices are crashing fast. We’ll explore…

Reader mail on the limits of QE, the property bubble and shrinkflation

It’s time to dip into the reader mailbag. And I must say, I’m disappointed. I used to get the most wonderful hate mail. The words…

What if populism has barely begun?

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…

Who is Jeremy Hunt? Robin Hood or the Sheriff of Nottingham?

Are you feeling suitably austere yet? Because austerity is back! But will it be with a vengeance? The financial markets didn’t seem to think so.…

Green energy gets the blues as it goes into the red

The Green Energy Transition continues to spiral out of control. And if we weren’t paying for it with the highest electricity bills in the Europe,…

They’re finally running out of other people’s money

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…

The social consequences of inflation are creeping in

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…