Happy New Year from all of us at Fortune & Freedom.

As we look back at the year gone by, the most striking thing for Nick has been how similar 2021 was to 2020.

Let us know in the comments if you agree, as you watch part 2 of our “Best of Nigel Farage in 2021” compilation…

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When we look back and remember 2021, what’ll be seen as the defining event that changed everything, and explains what happened next?

The introduction of vaccine mandates?

The default of China’s Evergrande?

The government’s Christmas party scandal?

Find out which 2021 event Nigel Farage sees as the pebble that changed the course of the river of history, in this video…

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If you can’t wear a great Christmas jumper at Christmas… then when can you? Or perhaps, what’s wrong with you?

Sadly 50% of our editors love a bit of the Christmas spirit… 50% of them have a whiff of the Scrooges about them.

Nonetheless, ‘tis the season for giving. And giving is what we shall do…

In particular, we’ll be giving you some ideas around what we consider to be some of the “Santa trades” you might want to think about in this festive period.

If you’re going to spend all this money at the shops, then perhaps you should think about how some of it might flow back into your portfolio? Do you buy what you know? Or buy what you buy?

Also, when you flick on the TV and see things that are confusing and make no sense… what do you do?

You might think we’re talking about something topical there… and we are, but it’s probably not what you might be thinking of.

Today’s Exponential Investor Podcast is festive, it’s fun, it’s full of fantastic ways to fund your favourite stocks and stockings!

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A very merry Christmas from everyone at Fortune & Freedom.

If it has been a tough year for you, I hope the video below will add some cheer.

That’s what Nigel Farage did for me back when the 2008 financial crisis, and the European sovereign debt crisis which followed it, were raging.

His ability to stand up, tell it like it is to those who don’t want to hear it, get at the heart of the matter, and do it all in a rather entertaining way made the whole thing a little more bearable. Unless you were serving in the European Commission at the time...

If you’ve enjoyed your year of rather wild and wacky news, and our coverage of it each week, I think you’ll enjoy this highlights reel…

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Do you remember when everyone was talking about the cryptocurrency bitcoin? What if that was barely the beginning of cryptocurrencies going mainstream?

Years ago, Nick Hubble was stuck in the Nullarbor desert in Australia. The mobile phone network had cut out, and all digital transactions with it. We couldn’t buy fuel because we didn’t have enough cash and were pondering our next move.

That’s when I heard a trucker, who was stuck with us, mention the word “bitcoin” and I realised just how far the cryptocurrency had come.

Next up was Ethereum – the first thing Nigel Farage and I ever talked about in person. Certainly not the topic of conversation I was expecting, either.

In this video, Nigel and I investigate three altcoins that could trigger the next big cryptocurrency revolution, with the help of a certain friend whom you might know already…

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If you built horse-drawn carts in the early 1900s there’s no way that you would have been thrilled with the invention of the automobile.

If you were the Post Office, there’s no way you would have been thrilled when email came along.

If you’re the Bank of England… there’s no way that you would be thrilled about the rise of cryptocurrency.

It makes perfect sense that the UK’s central bank should be fearful and worried about something that could be hugely disruptive to its activities – if not quite an existential threat to its very existence.

Therefore, any “warning” from a senior official at the Bank of England that an investment in bitcoin could become “worthless” is something that should be expected – indeed, something that is par for the course in financial markets.

What the Bank of England’s deputy governor for financial stability Sir Jon Cunliffe neglected to mention in his recent interview was that also, in theory, any investment could become worthless, with its market value falling to zero.

Remember HMV? Remember Blockbuster? Remember Netscape? Remember the Woodford Fund debacle?

Financial markets fundamentally run on shared beliefs of value and trust.

And if trust is slipping out from the traditional financial (TradFi) system… where is that system heading?

We also find it suspicious that the Bank of England wants to warn people away from crypto… yet is currently exploring the possibility of its own central bank digital currency (CBDC).

If you’re reading this, the chances are that you’re actually more switched on to what’s happening in the world than are many of the central bankers.

That world most definitely includes crypto and decentralised finance (DeFi).

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It’s been an outrageous week in politics.

Boris Johnson’s crisis has almost managed to overshadow events in financial markets, which have seen Evergrande finally default on its debt.

Not to mention the latest COVID variant, Omicron, which has gone global.

Find out which contagion Nigel Farage is worried out, in this video…

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Kit and Boaz wondered whether markets were set up for a “Santa Rally” this year: that is to say, for a phenomenon where markets rally into year end, as the festive mood lifts spirits.

It’s almost a self-fulfilling prophecy … but not a certainty.

They also discuss what the big losses in tech stocks means, and whether crypto can detach itself from the speculative aura which currently envelops it.

As always with Boaz, it’s a great conversation with plenty of great insights.

We hope you enjoy it...

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If you thought Nigel Farage is bullish about post-Brexit Britain, meet David Murrin.

This global forecaster of geopolitics and financial markets takes us through why, and how, he believes the UK is about to boom.

And let me tell you, a lot of it will come as a surprise to the rest of the world, let alone this country.

Find out why Brexit was “truly the greatest escape”, how dangerous China and Russia really could be, which empires are in decline, and which industrial empires could be about to strike, in this video with Nigel Farage and David Murrin…

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In today’s Exponential Investor Podcast we look at how the market is reacting to the emergence of another Covid-19 variant.

What does the Omicron variant mean for the “lockdown” stocks – the Pelotons, Zooms, and Robinhoods of the world – that soared in 2020, but have fallen from grace in 2021?

Has the tech bubble burst (again)? Or could we instead be watching the bubble deflate?

Do you buy, hold, or sell?

In today’s podcast we also discuss the metaverse: is the idea of being contained and immersed in a virtual reality more appealing than physical human contact?

We don’t think so. But are our desires to interact in person shared by the general population?

Maybe we’re the outliers. Maybe most people would rather live a lazy existence inside the metaverse.

Today’s episode might just rub you the wrong way. But it certainly contains valuable insights that you can inform your investment strategy.

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