Nick Hubble

Last week, the German and American stockmarket indices hit symbolic highs. Today, Japan is expected to break a 56-year record. Futures, a de-facto prediction of stockmarket performance before the market opens, were up over the weekend. This morning the actual…

Imagine playing the TV show Deal or No Deal with your entire family. Not in the stands, giving you “advice”, but there on stage with you. You all have to make the choices together. For most families, it’d be a…

Another day, another symbolic record high for a stockmarket. Yesterday it was the Dax at 13,000. Today the Dow at 23,000. One commentator complained on Twitter that he’d only just received his shipment of a “Dow 22,000” hat. Somebody else…

Amazing what a bit of monetary policy can do to Germans. Their stockmarket index geknackt 13,000, as they say in Germany. It’s the same verb used when you’re gleefully cracking nuts at Christmas. It implies a scrumptious morsel is inside….

Every few weeks I rant and rave about how the government can’t count. Endless examples of failed statistics gathering cross the news. But pundits don’t join the dots to their conclusion – generalised meaninglessness. It’s impossible to have an informed…

In September I warned inflation is making a comeback. It’s central bankers’ age-old accountability mechanism. The reason quantitative easing (QE) never worked in the end. It’s not like we haven’t tried money printing. History is littered with examples of it….

Sitting at a red light, I saw a throng of Catalans huddled around a phone. They had flags on their backs. And they gave a cheer as the bus took off. Their leader had declared independence. Sort of. The independence…

Few bank scandals are surprising these days. Over the last few years we’ve discovered the banksters manipulated just about every financial asset price possible. Some even went to jail! A few years ago, a friend worked on the internal investigations…