The City

Will the bond market bring down the government again?

Back in October, the UK government was brought down by the bond market. The Truss/Kwarteng budget triggered a crash in UK government bonds, driving borrowing…

The “Rigger in Chief”, unmasked!

Breaker Morant is one of my favourite films. I probably re-watch it about once a year and I’ve shown it to my older, now adult…

The week the Brexit dream died

The whole point of Brexit was to diverge from the EU – to dump their defunct laws and make the UK economy competitive with new…

Bond bombing central bankers’ Wile E. Coyote moment

We remember Guy Fawkes as the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions. But I don’t think central bankers will get away with the…

The extremely unlikely reincarnation of William Jennings Bryan: Hugh Hendry, “Acid Capitalist”

(Your browser might be blocking you from seeing this video. Please visit cookie settings and enable cookies to see the video on this site, or…

There is only one blob in Westminster and it’s called the Conservative Party

The government is too busy creating new onerous laws to rescind the ones the EU forced on us. They’re blaming a Westminster Blob for the…

The only thing we have to fear from AI is our overreaction to it

Every new technology faces opposition from those who believe it will harm them. The Luddites are the most famous example. Artificial intelligence (AI) is the…

Central bankers aren’t just behind the curve, they’re creating it

Central bankers failed to see inflation coming. They failed to react when it arrived. And now they’re overreacting in their campaign to slow inflation back…

The Bank of England’s cunning plan to solve inflation

Having failed miserably to achieve its inflation target in the short term, medium term and now long term, the Bank of England has come up…

Is the supply chain crisis the new “transitory”?

It’s been years since the toilet paper shortage first brought supply chain chaos to our attention. Back then, we blamed the shortfall on panic buying…

Out with the old money, in with the new

We’ve been writing to you about how the nature of money is changing since Fortune & Freedom was created. Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), cryptocurrencies…

Your currency or your banking system? Central bankers will have to choose…

Just how cornered are central bankers? They face inflation and a banking crisis, at the same time! This creates an impossible choice. Will central banks…

Don’t mention the pound!

The British pound was the best performing G10 currency in the first quarter of 2023. And another double-digit inflation print has helped it on its…

You broke it? You bought it!

The modern British High Street being what it is, most of you probably do a substantial amount of your shopping at chain stores. Food, clothing,…

King Charles may be the last thing you’ll see before ultimate government surveillance

King Charles has it pretty good. King of a Commonwealth, multi-billionaire, and all the other stuff he gets to do as king – like ride…

Fake Zelensky exposes the truth about CBDCs

A few weeks ago, European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde gave a private interview to Ukrainian president Zelensky. Well, it turned out to be a…

Why can’t central bankers just buy all the debt, Nick Hubble?

For many years, every few weeks, my dad would call me up with the latest reason why some sort of financial crisis was imminent. And…

Why can’t central bankers just buy all the debt, Thorsten Polleit?

Welcome to part four of our series which asks the smartest people I know a simple question: why can’t central bankers just buy all the…

Why can’t central bankers just buy all the debt, Nigel Farage and Greg Canavan?

Welcome to part three of our series which asks the smartest people I know a simple question: why can’t central bankers just buy all the…

Why can’t central bankers just buy all the debt, Jim Rickards and Jan Nieuwenhuijs?

As I explained yesterday, in the first edition of this series, one year ago, I asked the smartest people I know a simple question: why…