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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 reason I’m showing you this is simple. The opportunity to profit from it may be triggered soon. And that means you need to position…

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

The reason I’m showing you this is simple. The opportunity to profit from it may be triggered soon. And that means you need to position…

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 The thing is, my…

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 The thing is,…

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… If only we had…

Uranium mania is back. But should you be on board?

Uranium prices are soaring But uranium stocks are not Is it time to invest? The thing is, my friend Sam Volkering has beaten me to…

Asia’s Hope is born

Noa is two months old Japan is the canary in the demographic coal mine Do you want to learn about demographics the hard way? The…

Don’t believe the headlines about 2023

Returns in 2023 will be as misleading as any other year A calendar year is as arbitrary as any other cherry-picked period We all face…

AMD: the new Nvidia

AMD reckons smaller is better News coming to you from robots, and now AI Coke guns The reason I’m showing you this is simple. The…

Will 2024 be the great monetary pivot?

The great monetary pivot of 2024 How much weight does big tech carry? AI as “small tech”: over or undervalued? The reason I’m showing you…