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We've recently spoken about the idea of a currency reset. What it is, why it matters and why investors need to understand the idea, even if currency resets only occur once in a generation.Well, it's time to take our analysis a little further. Because the war in Ukraine has dramatically raised the chances of a currency reset occurring.But don't take our word for it. John Butler literally wrote the book on currency resets. And much of what he wrote about is playing out right now in the news.And so Nick Hubble decided to ask him about what's behind those news stories. And what happens next…Want to hear more from Nigel and the Fortune & Freedom team? Visit https://fortuneandfreedom.com/
Nick Hubble and Nigel Farage take a look at the last 18 months since launching Fortune and Freedom.Why they started it.What they got right.What they got wrong. And maybe most importantly, where are they going from here…Want to hear more from Nigel and the Fortune and Freedom team? Visit https://fortuneandfreedom.com/
Do you remember when everyone was talking about the cryptocurrency bitcoin? What if that was barely the beginning of cryptocurrencies going mainstream?Years ago, Nick Hubble was stuck in the Nullarbor desert in Australia. The mobile phone network had cut out, and all digital transactions with it. We couldn't buy fuel because we didn't have enough cash and were pondering our next move. That's when I heard a trucker, who was stuck with us, mention the word “bitcoin” and I realised just how far the cryptocurrency had come.Next up was Ethereum – the first thing Nigel Farage and I ever talked about in person. Certainly not the topic of conversation I was expecting, either.In this video, Nigel and I investigate three altcoins that could trigger the next big cryptocurrency revolution, with the help of a certain friend whom you might know already…Want to hear more from Nigel and the Fortune and Freedom team? Visit https://fortuneandfreedom.com/
Governments are now so overindebted that they rely on their central banks to finance them. But who is in charge of that relationship?On the one hand, central banks have lost all their independence and are mere extensions of government treasuries. They are forced to extend financing to government, or risk triggering a sovereign debt crisis…On the other hand, central banks could demand whatever they want from governments in exchange for access to their magic money tree…In this video, John Butler and Nick Hubble tackle who is the master and who is the servant…Want to hear more from the Fortune and Freedom team? Visit https://fortuneandfreedom.com/
With COP 26 going on in Glasgow, energy investing analyst Kit Winder talks with precious metals expert Nick Hubble about how a shift in government sentiment could lead to a huge opportunity in Uranium. And why it doesn't matter what you think about the energy transition, government involvement will likely generate investable opportunities for you either way. Nick and Kit give their razor-sharp insights, and the two battle over the future of the global energy system. It's a belter, enjoy.For more great content from Exponential Investor go to: https://www.exponentialinvestor.com/
Nick Hubble interviews Nigel Farage's friend Jasmine Birtles from Money Magpie in this Fortune and Freedom episode. Jasmine's work fills in the gaps with specific advice on all sorts of financial questions which are much more personal than we can cover in Fortune & Freedom. Ways to save money, make more of it, and of course, our own haunt, how to manage it.The other twist is that, unlike Nick, Jasmine is a comedian and therefore actually funny…To find out more about Money Magpie, check out www.moneymagpie.com.Whether you want to save money, manage money or make money, and whether you're a parent, student, unemployed, over 50, or professional, you can sign up to Jasmine's newsletter here:https://www.moneymagpie.com/the-moneymagpie-newsletters-what-would-you-like-to-receive-from-usWant to hear more from Nigel and the Fortune and Freedom team? Visit https://fortuneandfreedom.com/
While the energy crisis rages and spreads around the world, savvy investors are pondering a different problem… How can we make money from the mess?In this video, Nick Hubble asks Nigel Farage a simple question. Yet it's one that has so much baggage...“Are coal mining stocks the best way to profit from the green energy boom?”Find out what Nigel thinks in this video. Want to hear more from Nigel and the Fortune & Freedom team? Visit https://fortuneandfreedom.com/
You probably know Nigel Farage as a British political figure who was involved in all sorts of grassroots campaigns over the years. Like trying to stop Gordon Brown from selling Britain's gold, keeping the pound and of course the Brexit referendum.Our own Nick Hubble mainly knew of Nigel Farage because he predicted and explained the European sovereign debt crisis, when Greece defaulted on its bonds.But it turns out, Nigel is rather passionate about wind energy…in a way. And he's also taken issue with a discovery about what's behind all the government bond buying.And so, this video is a real Farage barrage on both counts – the financial and the political. The scam of the bond market and the wind energy racket. Want to hear more from Nigel and the Fortune and Freedom team? Visit https://fortuneandfreedom.com/
It used to be that owning a big allocation of bonds in your portfolio made a lot of sense. There was a time when you could expect a good return on the bonds you owned.Today, many bonds return very little yields. And some government and corporate bonds actually return a negative yield. Meaning you lose money on the bonds you own. But what has caused bonds to drop?And why do financial advisors still recommend that investors hold bonds in their portfolio?If the yield on bonds is so absurdly low… we ask, should you hold them in your portfolio? This week in the Fortune & Freedom podcast, Nick Hubble sits down to discuss the current state of bond investments with colleague Rob Marstrand. Find out whether it makes any sense for you to allocate a portion of your portfolio to them going forward. Want to hear more from Nigel and Nick?Sign up to the FREE Fortune & Freedom daily email with Nigel Farage.You'll get the truth about your money – behind the headlines, jargon and spin.Smart ideas about investing from real experts Nigel trusts.Daily intelligent insight, in plain English, about the threats to your money and how you could avoid them.Free, uncensored, direct to you.Click here to sign up now: https://subscribe.fortuneandfreedom.com/1866518/bgwr2-wf
Nick Hubble interviews two formerly ‘evil bankers' from UBS and Lehman Brothers. He asks them about the European Banking Authority's report on just how bad the exodus of bankers fleeing from Brexit really was in the end. And… what happens next for the City.Find out what the insiders think about Project Fear, the EU's attempt to steal the City and our future as the world's financial centre in this video. Want to hear more from Nigel and the Fortune and Freedom team? Visit https://fortuneandfreedom.com/
The Investment Director of UK Independent Wealth, Rob Marstrand, answers: “Why don't central banks buy and write off all the debt…?”Joined by Nick Hubble, Rob explores how the economy is affected by central banks buying up government debt. They discuss what happens if central banks bought up all the debt. What happens if they stop buying it all together… And everything in between…Which situations lead to inflation, deflation and what Rob calls ‘the death spiral'. We have also asked, “Why don't central banks buy and write-off all the debt…?” to Ex Lehman Brothers MD John Butler.The balance between government debt and central bank activities profoundly impacts the economy. And, in turn, your money. So, the question “Why don't central banks buy and write-off all the debt…?” is an important one to ask.With that in mind, who else would you like us to ask this question to? Let us know in the comments below.
Nigel Farage believes the cryptocurrency revolution can't be stopped. He explains to Nick Hubble what he thinks is going on with banks and cryptocurrencies, and what it means for investors. Reveals a crypto expert he recommends investors pay attention to if they want to fully understand the opportunities and importantly, the risks involved with crypto. They also explore why banks are stopping their customers from buying cryptocurrencies. To find out more about Sam Volkering's guide to cryptocurrencies, click here: https://subscriptions.freedomthroughwealth.co.uk/1846710/b1meg-yt
Ex Lehman Brothers MD John Butler answers “why don't central banks buy and write-off all the debt…?”Along with Nick Hubble, John explores what happens when governments realise that, if the central bank is willing to print money to finance deficits, there is no longer any fiscal constraint on spending. Until the currency collapses that is...They explore what all this means for investors and how you might go about navigating such uncertain times.
Bitcoin has had a dramatic year. Hitting all-time peaks, followed by major corrections. Normally a major fall in the price of Bitcoin is followed by mainstream media saying it's ‘the end of the bubble', but this time, they're unusually quiet. Nigel Farage and Nick Hubble have called in crypto expert Sam Volkering to uncover what's happening in the crypto space. Sam has been in the cryptocurrency space for more than 10 years. And his book, Crypto Revolution, has been read by more than 40,000 investors. Sam, Nigel and Nick discuss if there's something going on in the crypto market that's not being well reported. And if investors should still be looking into Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. If you'd like to check out the briefing Sam mentions in the video, you can find that here: https://bit.ly/sambitcoin
Should this be the indicator investors are looking at for their asset allocation…? Ex Deutsche Bank Managing Director John Butler joins Nick Hubble to discuss what happens when central bankers lag interest rates behind inflation. In the early 2000s, the central bank was behind the curve. Inflation rose faster than interest rates. This inflated the housing bubble, stocks and gold together. But in the 70s, we got stagflation. Stocks fell in real terms because of the disruption from inflation. Looking at where we are and where we might go, John and Nick explore which situations could lead to rallies and sell-offs in the gold and stock markets.
Nigel Farage shares his insights on rising inflation and interest rates with Nick Hubble. They discuss which one investors and traditional savers alike should be planning for. Especially given the lengths central banks and governments have gone to in avoiding a financial crisis so far - have they ultimately made things worse? Nick and Nigel also discuss how previous rises in interest rates have ended in crisis. But equally…Governments historically find it hard to manage rising inflation without using all the tools at their disposal - such as increasing interest rates. As the 5-year Brexit anniversary passes, Nigel also talks about his growing fears around government control. And how governments might be reluctant to give up their emergency powers post-pandemic.
Nickolai Hubble is the editor of Fortune & Freedom (https://fortuneandfreedom.com/our-mission/) , Jim Rickards’ Strategic Investment in Australia and a contributing editor of The Daily Reckoning Australia. After finishing his degrees in finance and law at Bond University in Australia in 2009, working for an investment bank didn’t seem so enticing any more. An internship with his scholarship provider Goldman Sachs during the height of the financial crisis was quite enough of that. Instead, Nick went to work for the company which allows its analysts to predict the financial crises that investment bankers cause. A network of publishing businesses dedicated to bringing you ideas that are too controversial to get a hearing in the mainstream press. And that’s where Nick found a very comfortable home. https://www.share-talk.com/nick-hubble-editor-at-fortuneandfreedom-com-interview/
In October Nick Hubble teamed up with Nigel Farage to launch Fortune & Freedom, a morning newsletter which aims to help people take control of their finances. In just over a month it has gained over 33,000 subscribers. Should ‘the financial establishment’ be nervous? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Here is a list of resources to support the BLM movement https://bit.ly/2MCdcKaCovid-19 has resulted in a 17% drop in global emissions over the length of the crisis. How do we hold on to this silver lining after the economy starts back up and we return to "The new normal"? With transport being a whopping 3rd of emissions we have to look to other means of getting about that are better for the environment and better for us. This week on the pod we talk to Nick Hubble, otherwise known as the Prestwich Pootler (@pootlers), about cycling in Greater Manchester. We discuss how you don't have to reinvent the wheel (sorry not sorry) to make cycling accessible to all and what we can learn from our comrades on the continent. If you like the show tell your comrades!Find us on all the socials Twitter:@MCRGND_PODInsta: ManchestergndpodFB:MCRGNDPODShout OutsBrian Deegan - Advisor to Manchester cycling and walking commissioner @bricycleNandini Mitra@_nmtrWheels for all- making cycling accessible for all. https://cycling.org.uk/wheels-for-allManchester Bike Hirehttps://manchesterbikehire.co.uk/**Links**Manchester Critical Mass Cycling grouphttps://www.manchesterfoe.org.uk/events/event/critical-mass/Walk Ride GMhttps://walkridegm.org.uk/
Modernism in the arts, and particularly literature, has often been portrayed as a middle class pursuit, with certain literary critics focusing on the ‘elitism’ of the movement. But does this give a true picture of its social composition? This week, Tom Overton talks to Nick Hubble about their new book The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question (https://euppublishingblog.com/2017/09/07/proletarian-modernism/), and about how the General Strike of 1926 (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/writing-the-1926-general-strike/41A4BEF1FB2C099EEEFD60A5F14C0B80), the Equal Franchise Act 1928 and the Great Depression shaped working class forms of modernism during the 1930s. (Cover image: 'Acetylene Wielding' (1917) by C.R.W. Nevinson) SELECTED REFERENCES W. H. Auden Octavia Butler LEWIS CARROLL, The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland (1865) Chung Ling Soo (magician) T. S. Eliot WILLIAM EMPSON, Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity EMPSON, Some Versions of Pastoral (1935) – https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/empson-style-from-despair Ford Madox Ford JOHN GAY, The Beggar’s Opera (1728) Lewis Grassic Gibbon – https://www.grassicgibbon.com WALTER GREENWOOD, Love on the Dole (1933) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIPubjjouaA J. B. S. Haldane – https://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/makers-of-modern-genetics/digitised-archives/j-b-s-haldane Richard Hoggart NICK HUBBLE, 'Proletarian Autofiction of the 1930s' (2019) - https://socialhumanities.home.blog/2019/03/10/proletarian-autobiografiction-of-the-1930s SAMUEL HYNES, The Auden Generation (1976) – https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-auden-generation-by-samuel-hynes/ JAMES JOYCE, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916); Ulysses (1922) D. H. LAWRENCE, ‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’ (1909) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odour_of_Chrysanthemums D. H. LAWRENCE, Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) Doris Lessing MARGARET LLEWELLYN DAVIES (ed.), Life as We Have Known It (1930) – https://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?id=4294981756 Charles Madge – http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/speccoll/collection_descriptions/madge.html Mass Observation – https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/09/11/surveillance-society NAOMI MITCHISON, We Have Been Warned (1935) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Mitchison BILL NAUGHTON, Alfie (1963) – https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2007/dec/06/thebestevernovelform Friedrich Nietzsche GEORGE ORWELL, The Road to Wigan Pier (1936); Homage to Catalonia (1938) GEORGE ORWELL, ‘The Writer in the Witness Box’ (1940) – https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/the-proletarian-writer Alan Partridge Jackson Pollock Proletkult Ann Quin Karl Radek – https://www.marxists.org/archive/radek/1934/sovietwritercongress.htm Lorna Sage Stephen Spender Agnes Smith – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2082201.An_Edge_of_the_Forest JOHN SOMMERFIELD, May Day (1936) – http://ojs.ub.gu.se/ojs/index.php/njes/article/view/1262 August Strindberg Edward Upward – http://www.edwardupward.info/ H. G. Wells ELLEN WILKINSON, Clash (1929) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_(novel) Raymond Williams VIRGINIA WOOLF, Mrs. Dalloway (1925); Orlando (1928); The Years (1936); Three Guineas (1938)
Nick Hubble’s The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) is a thrilling, and timely challenge to the orthodoxy that proletarian and high-modernist literatures ought to be understood in opposition to one another. Featuring writers as diverse as Virginia Woolf, Naomi Mitchison, D. H. Lawrence, John Sommerfield, H. G. Wells, and Walter Brierley, this study creates new critical space that reveals the modernism in the proletarian, and the proletarian in the modernist. It foregrounds ideas of intersubjectivity, intersectional struggles, and emancipatory discourses that rely on some way of relating the ‘I’ to the ‘We’. Covering the critical discourses that have shaped our understanding of these literary movements in the UK since the interwar period, Hubble brings his critical intervention to bear on the contemporary historical moment, and asks how the proletarian answer to the modernist question might inform our political and cultural imaginations as a neoliberal consensus collapses around us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nick Hubble’s The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) is a thrilling, and timely challenge to the orthodoxy that proletarian and high-modernist literatures ought to be understood in opposition to one another. Featuring writers as diverse as Virginia Woolf, Naomi Mitchison, D. H. Lawrence, John Sommerfield, H. G. Wells, and Walter Brierley, this study creates new critical space that reveals the modernism in the proletarian, and the proletarian in the modernist. It foregrounds ideas of intersubjectivity, intersectional struggles, and emancipatory discourses that rely on some way of relating the ‘I’ to the ‘We’. Covering the critical discourses that have shaped our understanding of these literary movements in the UK since the interwar period, Hubble brings his critical intervention to bear on the contemporary historical moment, and asks how the proletarian answer to the modernist question might inform our political and cultural imaginations as a neoliberal consensus collapses around us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nick Hubble’s The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) is a thrilling, and timely challenge to the orthodoxy that proletarian and high-modernist literatures ought to be understood in opposition to one another. Featuring writers as diverse as Virginia Woolf, Naomi Mitchison, D. H. Lawrence, John Sommerfield, H. G. Wells, and Walter Brierley, this study creates new critical space that reveals the modernism in the proletarian, and the proletarian in the modernist. It foregrounds ideas of intersubjectivity, intersectional struggles, and emancipatory discourses that rely on some way of relating the ‘I’ to the ‘We’. Covering the critical discourses that have shaped our understanding of these literary movements in the UK since the interwar period, Hubble brings his critical intervention to bear on the contemporary historical moment, and asks how the proletarian answer to the modernist question might inform our political and cultural imaginations as a neoliberal consensus collapses around us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nick Hubble’s The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) is a thrilling, and timely challenge to the orthodoxy that proletarian and high-modernist literatures ought to be understood in opposition to one another. Featuring writers as diverse as Virginia Woolf, Naomi Mitchison, D. H. Lawrence, John Sommerfield, H. G. Wells, and Walter Brierley, this study creates new critical space that reveals the modernism in the proletarian, and the proletarian in the modernist. It foregrounds ideas of intersubjectivity, intersectional struggles, and emancipatory discourses that rely on some way of relating the ‘I’ to the ‘We’. Covering the critical discourses that have shaped our understanding of these literary movements in the UK since the interwar period, Hubble brings his critical intervention to bear on the contemporary historical moment, and asks how the proletarian answer to the modernist question might inform our political and cultural imaginations as a neoliberal consensus collapses around us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why are Chinese bike-share companies struggling to replicate their success abroad? Ed Butler hears from Nick Hubble, a cycling campaigner in Manchester - the UK city where Chinese firm Mobike has just scrapped its bike-share scheme. Mobike's head of growth in Europe Steve Milton describes the challenges of global expansion. Julian Scriven from rival German firm Nextbike explains why the Chinese model doesn't necessarily work in other countries, and Dana Yanocha, Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy in Washington DC, describes the challenges faced by US cities swamped by shared bikes.(Photo: A Mobike on a London street, Credit: Getty Images)
Anne McElvoy talks to the novelist Adam Thirlwell about his latest book, described as 'suburban noir'; its setting "a kind of absence, without a focus or centre". The academic Nick Hubble takes issue with the cultural representation of suburbia and the snobbery surrounding it. When Richard McGuire created his graphic masterpiece 'Here' he collapsed millennia of history into the corner of one suburban house, and the photographer Hannah Starkey looks back at photos from the end of the twentieth century to see what they say about changing Britain. Producer: Katy Hickman.