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This week's recommendations: • Is "despite vaccinations" the new "despite Brexit"?   • If inflation goes bananas, this is why it will…   • Prepare to skid on a carefully laid oil slick   • Did you know that we share even more investment insight on Facebook?  • Do central bankers rule the world, or serve their masters?   • I'm from the government and I'm here to…

Is "despite vaccinations" the new "despite Brexit"?   Back in May, when every second Fortune & Freedom video and article was warning about a coming spike in inflation, I was even more worried about something else…   Read more here

If inflation goes bananas, this is why it will…   As I've been trying to explain, the inflation we've seen so far may not be true inflation at all. And yet, true inflation is very much on the cards – a lot of it.   It's important to distinguish between the two, before I explain why inflation is yetto strike.   Prices can rise because of supply and demand shifts, but that's not inflation. Inflation is the devaluation of money itself, not shifts in supply and demand. Read more here

Prepare to skid on a carefully laid oil slick   We don't often cover the oil price at Fortune & Freedom. This is despite energy being "the master resource" and oil being energy's key component.   The reason we call energy a master resource is that you need energy for everything. From existing biologically to the most complex economic function, energy is a key input in everything. And so… energy prices matter, a lot.   Another key part of this is the idea that energy production can be measured in terms of how much energy it takes to produce energy. For example, how many barrels of oil are used to produce a barrel of oil? How many barrels of oil are used to produce a tonne of copper? Read more here

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Do central bankers rule the world, or serve their masters?   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 seem to have lost all their independence and appear to be mere extensions of government treasuries. They are forced to extend financing to government, or risk triggering a sovereign debt crisis… Read more here

I'm from the government and I'm here to…   For every problem we face, there's a government policy. But what if none of them solve the problem? What if they only get worse when governments intervene?   The world is faced with a very long list of crises right now. Crises of all sorts and sizes. And a government policy is increasingly obviously behind each of them.   The question is, when will people lose faith altogether? When will people stop asking governments to fix things and realise they'll only get worse if the government gets involved?   Find out the answer, from Nigel Farage himself, and from the 70s too…    Read more here

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