Boaz Shoshan

I hope you’re enjoying the bank holiday as much as you can during the lockdown. With the long weekend, and the highly anticipated “halvening” just a few days away now, I thought I’d send you something special. This is an…

Why would somebody be mining bitcoin in a mosque? About a year ago now, some images started circulating on Twitter showing vast bitcoin mining arrays, racks upon racks of monitor-less computers whirring away in a place of worship: Source: @Rmahdavii,…

When you’re stuck indoors all day, the imagination wanders more than usual. We rerun old memories like a cabinet of dusty video cassettes, taking respite in reveries of better times. Come with me, and remember back to this, four years…

The Scottish Independence referendum feels like an incredibly long time ago. The political drama has increased by a factor of 11 since then, but oh boy did it feel intense at the time. In retrospect, it was probably a great…

“Of all the weapons in the vast Soviet arsenal, nothing was more profitable than Avtomat Kalashnikova model of 1947, more commonly known as the AK-47 or Kalashnikov. It’s the world’s most popular assault rifle, a weapon all fighters love. An…

We’re thinking of buying a load of beer here at Southbank Investment Research. Not just for us, mind – but for you too. It started with the news story that MPs in the Public Accounts Committee had recommended the Bank…

Why are CEOs bailing out of their companies like there’s a financial crisis on? They must not have got Donald Trump’s memo that everything is fine in the US economy. Or read the latest issue of The Fleet Street Letter,…

I’ve no edge when it comes to India-Pakistan relations, so I’ve no insight as to how the two countries will behave now that violence has erupted between them. All I know is, 1: You’ll be able to cut the atmosphere…

“On Wednesday we wired all the money out of there, and they failed, as you may remember, on Friday.”  Hedge fund veteran Simon Mikhailovich told me that in a recent conversation we recorded for our 2019 Gold Summit. We’re going live with it today, for a 24-hour period…

In today’s letter, I’d like to focus on two things. Two things changed recently, which haven’t changed in a very long time. There are very few traders and investment managers around today who were working the last time they occurred….