Pension

8th June 2018 Nickolai Hubble

Your retirement is a political promise

It’s always fun to see the government fail the very people who stir it into action. Prohibitionists who fall victim to organised crime gangs. Warmongers who get called up in the draft. Rent control advocates who live in dilapidated buildings….

17th May 2018 Nickolai Hubble

Abandon your pension mountaineering

My mum lives in front of the Wilder Kaiser. It’s a pretty mountain in Austria. The top half is a shiny face of bare rock which glows in the afternoon sun. You can climb up and over through the Ellmau…

30th April 2018 Nickolai Hubble

Opt out of the blunder from Down Under

Capital & Conflict offers you a simple piece of advice: opt out of the blunder from Down Under. As the news furore over the immigration debacle reaches fever pitch in the UK, let’s take a look at the nation which…

26th April 2018 Nickolai Hubble

The pension panic is coming

If you know something is going to happen in the future, when do you react to it? More importantly for the purpose of making money in financial markets, when is everyone else going to react? Because that’s when prices move….

20th February 2017 Nick O'Connor

Great news for income seekers – or is it?

Have you heard the good news? If you’re a retiree, you’re now better off than people who are in work. That’s right, in the decade during which interest rates and the income yielded on capital has dropped to 5,000 year…

10th February 2017 Bill Bonner

A Government for Old People

MIAMI – “The CQ certainly went down when you came into the hotel,” said one of our two sons here with us. “What’s the CQ?” “The cool quotient.” The Edition hotel in Miami’s South Beach has so much cool, your…

2nd February 2017 Nick O'Connor

“A 5% return, just to survive”

Thank you to everyone who wrote in about our special income project. It really struck a chord. Remember, this is something we’re developing in response to cries for help from a certain portion of our readership: people who’re suffering on…

27th January 2017 Nick O'Connor

What if you can never retire?

Fair warning: you might not like the conclusion you come to after reading today’s letter. But it’s better to address this threat now – and do something decisive about it – than wait ten years when it’ll be a thousand…

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