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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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16:46

5 Current Affairs Events Worthy Of Your Attention

Sovereign Finance ·

2026/01/24

Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.We were originally going to cover entrepreneurship, sales and marketing in this conversation. That is coming next time, but we felt compelled to comment on some goings-on. So what are those goings-on that we need to talk about?Right, well, there are five that are worthy of comment. Obviously, one is the ongoing situation in Venezuela. The second one was a speech from the Iranian representative to the UN Security Council

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18:08

A 2026 Review of US Debt & The Future Prospects of...

Sovereign Finance ·

2026/01/14

Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.I’ve come across some numbers regarding the United States’ current financial position. Now, of course, the debt numbers we’re talking about run into the trillions. Bear in mind that a trillion dollars represents in round figures the lifetime earnings of a million people.I will put a link into the episode we did on big numbers, where we explored the true scale of millions, billions, and trillions.Yeah thanks. So now we’re

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30:28

Is the United States an Empire in Violent Decline?

Sovereign Finance ·

2026/01/12

Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.Editor’s note: this episode contains two discussions covering current affairs, one from 12th December 2025, and one from 5th January 2026. (The Editor got distracted by Christmas!) We’ve published them together as one backs up the other regarding our stance on the dollar. There is an audio interlude between the two segments on the audio version.Comments from 12th DecemberWe’re wrapping up some recent current affairs today

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22:56

The Essential Nature of Money

Sovereign Finance ·

2026/01/04

Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.We’re going to get back to a core topic today: the nature of money. At some point in the sovereign finance journey, everyone realises that the money that you thought was real in your pocket isn’t as real as you were led to believe growing up. So what else do we have to say on this?First, at the end of the day, money is a tool. It’s a tool that can be used like any other tool for good or for ill. If you’ve got a knife, you

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18:17

Is Productivity The High Altar of Humanity?

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/12/31

Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.The UK budget was announced on 26th November 2025, which we broadly regard as a PR exercise for the powers that ought not to be. The budget isn’t really a budget because they don’t break down where the money comes from and where it’s going. Could you elaborate on that Derek?A good starting point would be this post that you forwarded to me from someone you’re acquainted with on Facebook. He’s apparently been an engineer and

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27:01

Interest Rates and Government Bonds - a Broken...

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/11/24

Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.We’re going to talk about interest rates on bonds today. What’s going on that people need to know about here?Well, a few years ago, we did a piece on this. What I said was that the interest rates being commanded were a result of several different factors. One of them is the basic rate for basically hiring some money for a period. Another factor is how reliable you regard the borrower as being.The other one was what you

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10:28

Thoughts on the "28-point plan" for Ukraine

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/11/23

Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.We thought we’d do a bit of a roundup of current affairs and goings-on today. What’s going on that people should be aware of?Well, the short answer is, of course, more of the same! I was leafing through my journal over the past three or four months. I’ve been saying more or less the same things every time.We’re like a broken record…Yes. We have yet another peace plan in Gaza. It’s quite interesting, there’s considerable

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23:18

A Looming Energy Crisis? (Part 2 - Possible Solutions)

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/11/11

Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.We were talking in the conversation last time about energy and how energy is generally misunderstood or misused. We left last week’s conversation by saying that, at some point in the future, we’re going to hit limits in how we generate energy at the moment. If it’s going to be a transformation, we might need to use less energy or be more strategic about it. So we thought we’d unpack that a bit today.Yes. It seems that the

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32:07

A Looming Energy Crisis? (Part 1)

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/11/09

Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.We’re going to talk about energy today. Where do we need to start with energy?Well, on YouTube lately, I don’t know whether you’ve noticed the same thing, but I get an enormous number of ads for heaters that supposedly heat your room in seconds for next to nothing in energy costs.They work by magic.Yeah, exactly.I thought, actually, this is physically impossible. There’s a very marginal difference in the efficiency of one

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16:24

Wealth, Power, and Fossil Fuels

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/10/28

Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.Today, we’re going to talk about how wealth is seemingly represented by weaponry and other destructive elements of society, and relate that to some current events. So what do people need to know?“Ilth” and the Futility of WarWell, it’s worth reminding ourselves of the definition we settled on: wealth is what people want. Obviously, people do want weapons, and therefore you could indicate that that’s a form of wealth

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25:56

How Much Would Your Weekly Aldi Shop Cost You in Gold...

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/10/11

Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.We’re talking about inflation today. I was talking with my wife Linzi the other night about how we basically can’t go to Aldi, which is our local supermarket, and spend less than a hundred pounds, no matter how hard you try these days. She was like, well, where does this end? Because people can’t carry on doing this. I said, “It ends with the complete controlled demolition of the financial system and digital serfdom!” But

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24:20

Digital ID and Other Geopolitical Escalations

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/09/30

Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.So we thought we would pass comment on current events today. What’s going on that people should pay attention to?Well, probably at the top of the list would be alleged incursions by Russia into the airspace of various NATO countries. We briefly discussed this a couple of weeks ago when the drones appeared in Poland.All of the people that I regard as sensible commentators are now firmly saying what I strongly suspected at

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22:26

A Round-up of Increasingly Crazy Current Events!

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/09/14

Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.We thought we'd comment on the state of the world and some goings on today that relate to Sovereign Finance. So what's been going on that people should be paying attention to?Well, there are lots of things that don't seem to be working. Rather than addressing them, our wonderful leaders seem to be simply doubling down. Some commentators think that Britain, France and Germany are all on the brink of civil war.Pouring more

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14:59

The 2025 SCO Summit: What Do You Need To Know?

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/09/12

Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.We’ve got some thoughts to share on the SCO Summit, which before this call, I was not aware of. So what is it, and what do people need to know?Well, it's the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, an organisation which is oriented towards both defence and trade. It's another thing which has expanded enormously over the last few years.One of the most notable things about it, which has largely been ignored in the Western media,

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11:09

What an IMF Bailout of the UK Would Really Mean for...

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/09/06

Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.We're talking about debt today. Last time out, we were talking about how debt can be a good thing or a bad thing at individual, business and national level. It appears in the last week or so that Britain is in a much worse state than the authorities have led us to believe. It seems we might actually be bailed out by the International Monetary Fund, which doesn't bode very well for ordinary folk like you and I. So what do

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21:30

Good and Bad Debt: at Personal, Business, and...

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/08/28

Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.We're going to revisit a topic today that we've been talking about quite a bit recently - debt. So yeah, what's going on that people need to know about?What prompted me to think about this again was a broadcast I listened to the other day. It gave a rundown of the state of the United Kingdom's finances, which are in a dreadful state. We recently borrowed an additional £20 billion, and three-quarters of that is simply going

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14:47

Big Numbers Revisited: Millions, Billions, and Trillions

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/08/02

Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.We're discussing big numbers today, a topic we've explored before in how billions and trillions are used in public discourse. We're going to talk about that today in the context of US debt. So what do people need to know about this?Right, so I'll just give a bit of a recap. When we talked about an idea of how to get a handle on millions and billions in the past, I said that there are various ways we can envisage these

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14:42

The "Mighty Micro" and the Accelerating Pace of Change

Sovereign Finance ·

2025/07/26

Rob’s comments below are in italics.Derek’s comments below are in normal font.We're going to talk a little bit about a book called the Mighty Micro?This is a book written in 1979. As far as I was concerned, he was preaching to the converted. I'd already been using microcomputers and indeed designing with microprocessors for two or three years at the time the book came out. But I've kept it on the shelf, and I pull it down from time to time to remind myself of the extraordinary changes that we've

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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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