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Sovereign Finance

Connect the dots between personal finance, global finance trends, and deep human history. Tune in every week to demystify the money puzzle, and protect your interests in a turbulent world. sovereignfinance.substack.com

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14:00

Epstein, Trump, and Historical Parallels to 1914

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/07/18

A quick announcement: We’re holding a free live Sovereign Finance discussion on Sunday 20th July, at 7.30PM on Zoom. We’ll discuss global trends, things you might do, and answer questions from the podcast so far. Register for free here.Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.The news this week has been dominated by Trump backtracking on his commitment to be fully transparent about what was going on with Jeffrey Epstein.Do you think he's on the list,

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21:57

The Lunar Cycle, Complex Systems, and the Decline of...

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/07/15

A quick announcement: We’re holding a free live Sovereign Finance discussion on Sunday 20th July, at 7.30PM on Zoom. We’ll discuss global trends, things you might do, and answer questions from the podcast so far. Register for free here.Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.Okay, so it’s the 10th of July. It's a full moon rising today or tomorrow. We'll review some of the contemporary events insofar as they're likely to have an impact on your finances.How much

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23:01

Comments on the BRICS Annual Summit

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/07/05

A quick announcement: We’re holding a free live Sovereign Finance discussion on Sunday 20th July, at 7.30PM on Zoom. We’ll discuss global trends, things you might do, and answer questions from the podcast so far. Register for free here.Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.Our topic today is the BRICS annual conference, which started a few days ago. We've seen several trends accelerating that we've been discussing for a while. So we thought we'd talk about

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18:49

Warfare and Finance

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/06/28

Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.We're talking about warfare today, which is definitely a relevant topic, given worldly goings on and the connection to the financial system. So what do we need to know?We had the so-called 12 days of what you could call it, Israel and Iran, terminated by a ceasefire that Donald Trump is taking credit for. It's worth examining the broader implications of this. Before we get back to that, I wanted to review the nature of

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23:04

Is It Time To Localise Wealth Creation?

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/06/14

Reminder: We’re holding a free live Sovereign Finance discussion on Sunday 22nd June, at 7.30PM on Zoom. We’ll discuss global trends, things you might do, and answer questions from the podcast so far. Register for free here.Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.We're talking about wealth creation and wealth acquisition today. Where do we need to begin?Well, I was reflecting on the fact that, as we discussed in earlier issues, wealth is brought into existence

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29:52

How Interest Rates Are Supposed To Work!

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/06/07

Reminder: We’re holding a free live Sovereign Finance discussion on Sunday 22nd June, at 7.30PM on Zoom. We’ll discuss global trends, things you might do, and answer questions from the podcast so far. Register for free here.Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.I’d like to discuss how interest rates would work in a sane world, and how they have in fact been working for at least the last couple of decades. Plus, how this relates to the unfolding of geopolitical

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24:53

The Impact of Warfare on Wealth

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/05/31

A quick announcement: We’re holding a free live Sovereign Finance discussion on Sunday 22nd June, at 7.30PM on Zoom. We’ll discuss global trends, things you might do, and answer questions from the podcast so far. Register for free here.Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.We're going to do another weekly recap this week, which is useful for me because I tend to live my weeks with my head in the sand, buried in my own affairs. It's good for me to catch up and

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27:21

Who Is Really Pulling The Strings?

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/05/24

A quick announcement: We’re holding a free live Sovereign Finance discussion on Sunday 22nd June, at 7.30PM on Zoom. We’ll discuss global trends, things you might do, and answer questions from the podcast so far. Register for free here.Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.We thought we'd examine current events from a sovereign finance perspective today. So, what has been going on?Well, it's important to have these conversations in a podcast like this, which

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14:08

How Finance Has Changed!

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/05/13

Rob’s comments are in italics.Derek’s comments are in normal font.We're going to reminisce about your past today and explore some of the lessons from working in finance. So what happened and where do we need to start?When I came down from university, I got a job in a firm of stockbrokers. It was one of the large firms, had about 40 partners and 400 staff. Its primary business was for institutions, for pensioners funds, unit trusts, fund managers of all sorts.One way or another, I concluded after

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19:16

Geopolitics and Inflation

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/05/10

Rob’s comments are in italics.Derek’s comments are in normal font.We're going to take a swipe at current events, current goings on, because as usual, things are running apace. We're also going to touch on inflation, which is coming back into the realm of relevance. Where do we need to start?Okay, I think we've had things running at a pace on numerous geopolitical fronts. It's been more of the same. America is now saying they're pulling out of attempting to broker a deal for peace in Ukraine. It was

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10:39

The Escalation of Chaos

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/05/01

Rob’s comments are in italics.Derek’s comments are in normal font.Things on every front appear to be getting more chaotic. Nearly everything I am going to run over today are things I have mentioned before over the last few weeks and months, but it seems that the temperature is steadily rising.It is like groundhog day. I think the main development, if you can call it that, over the war in Ukraine is that the latest word from Trump is that essentially they are washing their hands of trying to broker a

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20:53

Tariffs!

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/04/14

Rob’s comments are in italics.Derek’s comments are in normal font.Thanks for reading Sovereign Finance! Subscribe for free to receive new posts.Well, it's been a pretty hectic week since Donald Trump announced his swinging tariffs on the rest of the world. Using this word tariff is a bit of obscurity. These things used to be called import duties. They're not paid by the foreign governments, which is the implication that he wants to convey. They're paid by anybody within the United States who's

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25:17

The True Nature of an Enterprise

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/03/27

Rob’s comments are in italics.Derek’s comments are in normal font.Subscribe free to be notified of new episodes:We're going to continue today with our tour of our forthcoming book, Demystifying the Money Puzzle. This week, we're going to examine the nature of an enterprise, which is something we take for granted and maybe shouldn't?Yeah, according to the Oxford dictionary, an enterprise, the two meanings they give is an undertaking, especially a complex one. The second meaning is a business. I think

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10:04

Demystifying Economics

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/03/25

Rob’s comments are in italics.Derek’s comments are in normal font.So last time out we were outlining our forthcoming book, Unravelling the Money Puzzle, and we thought we'd continue tugging on some of those threads today. What's on the agenda?Well, as I said last week, we gave an outline of the structure of the book as a whole. I mentioned that there are going to be three sections. One is about the nature of money itself, the forms it's taken, what's the common feature, what functions it serves and

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25:29

Unravelling The Money Puzzle

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/03/11

Rob’s comments are in italics.Derek’s comments are in normal font.I wanted to give a summary of my plan for the book and for the listeners to this podcast today. If you've been listening for the last year or so that we've been running this, we'll have already covered some of the material that will go into it. We will probably go through it again in a more systematic, structured way.Provisionally, we've decided to call the book Unravelling the Money Puzzle. The book is meant to fill a very important

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21:41

Collaboration over Competition

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/02/26

Rob’s comments are in italics.Derek’s comments are in normal font.I've got a short quote from Caitlin Johnson to share today. We both follow Caitlin, she's at https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/. She says in one of her articles:Market forces are not guided by wisdom, they are guided by greed and fear, and by the unresolved early childhood trauma of the Musks and Theils and Bezoses of this world. Capitalism is a great way to guarantee more production and consumption, but it is completely useless for

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26:23

Core Operating Principles for Life and Business

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/02/20

Rob’s comments are in italics.Derek’s comments are in normal font.Today we're going to be talking about several frameworks you've got in mind for life operating an enterprise, all sorts of things. So, where do we need to start?I thought I'd return to the focus, which is the core of what we set out to do with sovereign finance, which is to show some light on the whole nature of wealth and the creation of wealth. I've identified six foundational principles on which the operation of any enterprise

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8:50

Current Affairs and Optimism!

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/02/11

Rob’s comments are in italics.Derek’s comments are in normal font.Today at the time of recording is the 7th of February. Things continue to move at pace, so we thought we'd do a quick roundup of recent events in the last week and see what's relevant from a sovereign finance lens. Where do we need to start?Well, I mean, I think the most obvious thing from this week is Donald Trump's bull-in-a-China-shop announcement, which seems to have shocked everybody that Gaza would make a great seaside resort

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19:11

Reflections of the Treaty of Versailles

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/02/07

Rob’s comments are in italics.Derek’s comments are in normal font.Right, okay, so we've had another week of Trump's presidency. Lots of squeals of outrage from all directions. The Senate confirmation hearings are going ahead now. Predictably enough, Robert Kennedy's been given a hard time by several of the senators...Several of the senators who are notably being paid by Big Pharma.Most reports in the mainstream media seem to imply he's not handled these attacks terribly well. According to who you

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26:30

One Week of Trump: A Sovereign Finance Assessment!

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/01/28

Rob’s comments are in italics.Derek’s comments are in normal font.Today is the 24th of January, so we are on day five of the Donald Trump administration, its second time round. There's definitely a lot going on. What do we need to recap from a Sovereign Finance lens?Well, I think there's a lot which will have implications for all of us, particularly with Trump's pronouncements. The word constantly used for Trump is unpredictable. I heard somebody commenting that unpredictable is great, so long as

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