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Energy and Nigel Farage make the green transition. Should you?

Nigel Farage once voted for the Greens in EU elections… because they were the only eurosceptic option on the ballot. These days, the EU itself…

How to turn your portfolio green

Since we launched Fortune & Freedom, you’ve heard from our cryptocurrency expert Sam Volkering a few times. Today, I’d like you to discover his other…

Profiting from the “Great Rotation”

Investment markets suffer frequent bouts of bubbles and busts. But spotting them in advance is no easy task. However, once they’re in place, they’re relatively…

EU vaccine madness is infecting the UK stock market

Covid is back in Europe. But it’s also infected the UK stock market. Stocks that were supposed to benefit from the recovery are struggling. On…

Signs of a speculative mania in the stockmarket

Things are getting weird out there. Financial markets are exhibiting the same signs of mental illness and instability that our locked-down population is. Protests, bouts…

Your spinach is watching you

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Axios sums it up like this: “Researchers at MIT have devised a way to allow chemical signals…

Banking is in decline, but is it terminal?

The world’s banks are under siege. Cryptocurrencies threaten to undermine banking altogether. Banks’ lending activities are attracting ever less interest thanks to central bank policies,…

Why Britain will boom after Covid-19

The world is increasingly divided. Into the hads and had nots. The nations that had widespread Covid-19 outbreaks and those that didn’t. As horrific as…

Return of the Emperor, at last

Let me show you a pair of stock market charts… They’re both of Japan’s Nikkei 225 index. The first tells you a miserable story. Japan’s…

Focus on the flights that are there

With the Fortune & Freedom production team still recovering from whatever they got up to this Christmas, we’ll be reviewing a “best of” series of…

Will Joe Biden sink the US stock market by mistake?

I’ve never written an article which encapsulates so many of our themes at Fortune & Freedom all at once. Investing, the stock market, the US…

Stock Market Santa Claus exposed

Yesterday we discovered the identify of Stock Market Santa Claus. A lot of central banks around the world are bidding up stock markets by buying…

Who really controls the stockmarket?

Not so long ago, asking that question would’ve got you laughed at. The stockmarket isn’t controlled, after all. It’s a marketplace of buyers and sellers,…

Covid tiers, Brexit tears and vaccine smears

We’ve left lockdown… sort of… We’ve left the EU… sort of… And we’ve got a vaccine… sort of… I asked Nigel Farage about this week’s…

The Easter Bunny is a better bet

What were the most important news stories this week? And what does Nigel Farage think is really behind them? I asked him whether I’d get…

What if the pandemic and lockdowns are just the beginning of big government?

After yesterday’s bitcoin interruption, we’re back to lockdowns today. And we’d left you with a big question on Tuesday. About what the effect of lockdowns…

Bitcoin is booming, very quietly. But why?

We interrupt this week’s lockdown broadcast with news about the ultimate anti-lockdown investment. No, not gold. Bitcoin. We had been planning an in-depth discussion of…

The Covid-19 debt crisis is now baked in. When do we eat it?

Is Covid-19 a buying opportunity for investors? Should you buy stocks at peak fear? That’s our question for this week in Fortune & Freedom. Yesterday…

Being one step ahead isn’t enough in investing

We’re in lockdown, I know. But financial markets price in the future, not the present. They tend to turn the corner before reality does. Not…

Lockdown and the Election

Nick Hubble Editor, Fortune & Freedom