I continue to be humbled by feedback on my book "Escape The Wealth Illusion". Delighted people are finding value in my views on finance, investing, planning & life in general. Thanks for the kind words of support & recommending to new readers. Amazon:

This is, IMO, a fantastic thread. It contains a lot of my own suggestions (e.g. council tax reform in favour of LVT and scrapping stamp duty) but with a LOT more detail as to why and a great explanation, with data and links, for why the "wealth tax" being pushed by dishonest.

This should act as irrefutable evidence of the self serving lack of integrity in UK politics. The inference here is a lie. They know it's a lie. And they know less people know it's a lie than don't, so the lie is net positive for their numbers. Red, Blue, Yellow, Orange, Green:.

You know, I don't think I've seen in my lifetime a collection of political leaders & their disciples around the world more adequately serve as demonstrable validation for "The Peter Principle". A wonderful hypothesis that's as true of hierarchy today as in 1969 when written.

Seems we might finally be coming to the end of the tariffs saga (maybe!). Time to dust off the "folks should start reading up on the Cantillon Effect and prepare for asset price inflation" messaging. 🙂. There will be ups and downs along the way, but as I've said for a while in.

It amuses me how often politicians introduce legislation clearly intended to increase control over a populace, but sell it as increasing "safety" to said populace. Almost like humans are predictable and have always been willing to give away actual control for perceived safety &.

Economics is a wonderful thing for predicting why things like this are generally inevitable and why the "£24b wealth tax income" mooted by populists today for their "tax the rich" divide and conquer is a nonsense. It always amazes me that politicians, who think in incentives

I can't tell you how many times I scan the news/socials of a morning and find myself immensely glad I stumbled over (and investigated further) Straus and Howe's "Fourth Turning" theory. If it's not something you're familiar with, do yourself a solid (the book is "The Fourth.

Home from our trip to the US. We were last there in October last year. I was curious to see what impact inflation/tariffs had had as an "outsider", from a general interest perspective given the partisan back and forth on X. My general view: . - Petrol: Lower. We paid around.

#ETH v #XRP. Was asked to look in more detail at ETH v XRP in the context of this chart I raised in early 2025 and have talked about (mostly had to defend the idea of!) a few times since. Back in January I hypothesised that if this were any currency pair (and I hid the ticker!)

#SPX continues in price discovery, still showing strength. #BTC broke range to the upside as anticipated in trend continuation and now looking for a new high. I'd like to see this higher (~127k at least) for momentum, but monitoring. #XRP having held range and all key levels

I'm starting to think providing rational, data led content on this platform isn't the way to get noticed. You have to say outlandish, populist, often crazy things to grow reach. Good thing I've never cared about reach. 🤣 I'll stick to my (hopefully) sensible, data led approach.

Posted in a reply, but deserves it's own post incase anyone didn't see it. --. This will be an unpopular view (& not what Labour will do as won't be a vote winner) but the UK state pension Ponzi has been slowly dying (through demographic change mainly) for decades. The entire.

For the "inflation is low the Fed should be cutting" crowd: inflation numbers aren't the only data point. None of the other metrics (unemployment, growth, market stability, demand etc.) are signalling weakness or the need for stimulus through liquidity. I'm not a fan of Powell.

One of the primary risks I warned about in a CBDC future in "Escape The Wealth Illusion". If this headline is true it's coming sooner than I expected, but the thinking doesn't surprise me (obviously, as I wrote about it 2 years ago!). It doesn't matter what they say they'll do,.

This. Well written, well considered and wholly accurate. Unfortunately, politicians rarely think in long timeframes, only election cycles and self interest, so I fear this will be another example of making the easy, popular decision over making the harder, correct decision.

I like Gary's intent, the fairer distribution of wealth to benefit the working and middle class. It's a vision I share (and wrote about in my book). But the sort of messaging in this video is exactly that which I rallied against in that book. When we're dishonest with people.

Very much have the same concerns and have said so previously. From a risk perspective (my first concern and by some considerable distance) I've no interest in holding BTC Treasury Companies. Potential upside exists, but that comes at a risk outside of my personal tolerance.

Well, after a 16 month hiatus from long form writing following the release of "Escape The Wealth Illusion", I've finally formed the final outline of a follow up & started writing the first chapter. Working title: "Lies, Damn Lies & Productivity". Inside I'll present data and.

Folks in our Discord find humour in the different ways I find to say "No Change" as months pass. But no change on the macro scale it is (hasn't been for months), despite flip flopping on X. Until something fundamentally changes from a technical perspective, I remain full 🐂.