Stocks

A fatal flaw or just a bottleneck for net zero?

Governments may have built and planned for a vast amount of renewable energy. But what about the extraordinarily vast electricity grid needed to move all that power? They forgot to build it…

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…

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.

Can Japan survive without monetary life support?

One month ago, I moved to Japan. We plan to stay about a year. The idea is to keep the kids bi-lingual. I managed to rope my Dad into joining us for a week. We needed his help on the flights. The middle child is a bit of a handful, especially on a plane. I like to say that if she had been born when I was, we’d have lost the Cold War. But we managed to keep her busy. It only took the combined efforts of everyone on the plane though…

A perfect storm for green energy stocks in 2024?

What if the green energy boom and bust cycle has nothing to do with green energy at all? And what if the conditions that gave rise to an extraordinary boom in clean energy stocks in 2020 and 2021 are about to reappear in 2024?

How to invest in a perverted stock market

Now that you know how the rich are abusing the stock market to their advantage, and what it means for our economy, it’s time to figure out what we can do about it. But first, I’d like to add one last way in which stock markets have been undermined.

Rise of the Boardroom Soviets

Yesterday we exposed how private equity and venture capital are front running you in the stockmarket. The 1% are using stockmarket listings as an exit strategy. They list their private companies to sell out of their exclusive gotten gains. This differs markedly from a stockmarket’s true purpose: to raise capital for companies trying to expand.

Is nuclear the answer to AI’s problems?

Today, we bring you a guest piece from Sam Volkering from one of our newest publications, AI Collision, which was first published on 8 February. We hope you enjoy it.

Will the “big tech” rally continue?

In this edition of Week in Review I sit down with my Southbank Investment Research colleague and tech guru Sam Volkering to analyse the most recent rally in “big tech” stocks and whether this trend can continue. Sam is confident that it can, and for a variety of reasons.

Has the Bank of England lost the inflation plot, again?

The market versus the central banks Inflation is rising again Will wage growth be blamed for inflation and deflation? When it comes to inflation, who…

It doesn’t matter how beautiful your tech is if it doesn’t fit into the puzzle of life

Technology that doesn’t fit doesn’t work Can we make AI fit into our reality? The challenges AI faces to succeed My grandfather passed away a…

If investing is all about bubbles, then this is the motza

Rollercoasters are fun, asset bubbles are not What inflates up, must pop down Some investors know how to play a bubble (Your browser might be…

How to get rich when AI blows a fuse

How are we going to power AI? AI’s poor sense of timing is a historic opportunity The shovels to AI’s golden nuggets (Your browser might…

From energy shortages to an energy glut in two years?

What happened to “Bakhtiari’s Event of the Century”? Fossil fuels are booming Green policies gave us the price spike – next, they’ll cause a crash…

Will the Green Bubble reinflate in 2024?

Green energy stocks crashed between 2021 and 2023 But have they bottomed? The next big bubble in energy may be elsewhere… Perhaps the biggest investment…