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The Age of Brainless
Introduction The internet is fast becoming lifeless and brainless, a village green devoid of critical thinking, engagement and debate. Nearly two thirds of activity is now by non-humans while algorithms dictate what is read, who is nudged into what flash mob and when. While asleep at the wheel are we…
High Inflation Ad
Our High Inflation strategies Ad will run on Newstalk Q2 2023. This the fifth in a series since 2020 when the inflation surge was first detected in Irish data. By Christmas 2023 the total permanent losses in money power will reach to one Euro in five that’s -20% since…
Top Financial Restructuring Services Company in Europe 2023
Hobbs Financial Practice ltd, short-listed as one of Europe’s top ten financial restructuring firms, has been awarded the Top Financial Restructuring Services Company in Europe 2023 by Financial Services Review, a specialist Fort-Lauderdale financial publication focused on Private Equity, Investment Banking, Insurance, Wealth Management and Mutual funds and covering the…
The Central Bank Trap, commentary after the collapse and closures of US banks
Eddie describes the bind Central Bank ideology and policies have taken us in letting inflation run amok, then chasing it by trying to create recessionary effects by raising interest rates in a nose bleeding surge. Something was going to break, it nearly was the UK’s financial stability after the Truss…
How Inflation is silently damaging Irish financial funds and pensions
Eddie describes why Irish Life Offices and wealth managers are locked into a groupthink that low inflation will return and have failed to take action to recognise the death of the old economic cycle and the arrival of the next high inflation one. It requires very different strategic thinking and action…
Currency warfronts: Russia is spearheading a gold- and commodity-backed Ruble, while Central Banks accelerate digital currencies which, without protections, will give them unlimited power to monitor and control how we spend our money.
https://villagemagazine.ie/currency-warfronts-russia-is-spearheading-a-gold-and-commodity-backed-ruble-while-central-banks-accelerate-digital-currencies-which-without-protections-will-give-them-unlimited-power-to-monitor/
Putin puts in the boot. The West and its weakest link here, Germany, face a formidable foe and test.
27 April, 2022 Russian Strategy unwrapped 27th April 2022, followed by analysis two weeks later on its launch of a global platform for gold & commodity backed currencies to take down the USD involving BRICS and Iran. https://villagemagazine.ie/putin-puts-in-the-boot-the-west-and-its-weakest-link-here-germany-face-a-formidable-foe-and-test-by-eddie-hobbs/
The Bank for International Settlement update survey of Central Banks on introducing their own digital currencies, dated Jan 2021. Expect CBDCs to make landfall within 4 years.
BIS Central Bank HQ on CBCD Update Jan 2021