Capital & Conflict – brought to you by Fortune & Freedom Yesterday’s Fortune & Freedom explained how central bankers have managed to avoid acknowledging the side-effects of their misbehaviour for so long. But the trends which kept a lid on…

Capital & Conflict – brought to you by Fortune & Freedom What happens when you mistake a symptom for a disease? Because that’s just what central bankers are doing right now. And their mistake is all that’s keeping stocks afloat….

In keeping with what Boaz Shoshan and John Butler spoke about, let’s kick off today’s Fortune & Freedom with a clever point made by a reader about the collapse of the global reserve currency, the US dollar…

If you liked the tech bubble and the housing bubble, you’re going to hate the consumer price inflation bubble.

My daughter, much like the stock market, is at that age when she can’t quite communicate what she wants, but all hell breaks loose if she doesn’t get it.

Is the Bank of England addicted to QE? Or did the pot call the kettle black?

The UK’s exports to the EU have surged well above pre-referendum and pre-Brexit averages. What does it mean for UK politics going forward if Project Fear is vanquished?

CHEDDAR, SOMERSET – What is it about the subject of finance that lends itself so much to squid metaphors?

In 2010, Rolling Stone famously described Goldman Sachs as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”

THE HOWFF, DUNDEE – Political agendas favouring renewable energy (such as the “Green New Deal” which we see touted in the States) are, like all political agendas, polarising issues. There was a time when investors could remain “above the fray”…

SODERMALM, STOCKHOLM – It’s all so damned… banal. Source: The Telegraph Our monetary oracle has spoken. Behold his wisdom. From The Telegraph: A widely used digital currency could pave the way for negative interest rates by making it harder to…

Take a moment to think about the following phrase: “risk-free rate of return”. It’s part of the everyday language of finance – one of those terms bandied about so much that we rarely stop to think about what it actually…

THE NAVIGATION INN, STAFFORDSHIRE – “No interest? No problem!” So cry investors as the Italian government beats them bloody with a brand new stick: the zero-coupon bond. While it’s the first time the Italian government has been able to get…

THE ECCLIAN, STAFFORDSHIRE – A hot air balloon hangs above the horizon like a dreamcatcher for the county. And the last squeezes of sunshine the season has to offer linger warm in the air. It’s a fine day indeed. And…

So here we are again dear reader, at the end of another wild week. It’s been a barnstormer for precious metals, as we’ve been writing about in recent days. We’re also seeing further signs of exhaustion in the tech sector,…

Some more comedy relief to start us off today. This statement comes courtesy of the European Central Bank (ECB), via its Twitter account: ECB asset purchases have reduced inequality in the eurozone, our research shows. They have especially benefited low-income…

DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA – Stocks got off to a rough start on Monday. Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar reported punk numbers; investors took it as a sign that the world economy is slowing. That’s our guess too. Night Is Day After…

Getting hammered in a central bank is an experience reserved only for the financial elite. The idea of proles like you or I knocking back drinks in such ivory towers borders on heresy. But believe it or not, the Public…

The French central bank on fire… fork lifts rammed into banks and the ministry of finance… brutal fights between riot police and protestors… cars set ablaze… and yet the market is still willing to lend to the French government at…

I read a history of the Bank of England (BoE) last year. It wasn’t very exciting. Even when armed guards took up positions to protect the bank from riots and during the war, not much happened. But one thing did…