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20 March, 202611 December, 2025

The Future of Money: Your Playbook for Freedom in a Controlled Economy

Final Post in the “Future of Money” Series

After exploring dozens of angles on where money, wealth, and personal freedom are heading, one thing is crystal clear: we are living through the biggest shift in financial history since the invention of the internet. The landscape is changing fast—digitisation accelerating, cash declining, surveillance rising and central banks redefining the tools of economic coordination. And yet, in that very shift, a new set of opportunities is emerging for people bold enough to act early.

13 March, 202611 December, 2025

How to Help Others Build Freedom in a CBDC Economy (and Monetise)

If you can help others build freedom, you not only empower real people—you can build a strong, ethical, profitable business around it.

6 March, 20266 March, 2026

The New Wealth Mindset: From Saver to Strategist

For decades, we were taught one simple path to financial security: work hard, save consistently, and let compound interest do the heavy lifting. It was the classic formula: steady, disciplined, sensible. And for the most part, it worked, but here’s a better, new wealth mindset.

But the world has changed. Rapidly. Quietly. Completely.

20 February, 202610 December, 2025

Diversified Currency Income Streams: How and Why

We’ve all heard of multiple streams of income, it is one of the tenets of wealth creation. It means that you have sources of income coming from different places, although they may be related. In this latest post on the future of money I look at diversified currency income streams and how these fit into an overall strategy.

20 February, 202620 February, 2026

Building Wealth Across Borders: Legal and Practical Tips

In this latest post in the series The Future of Money, I’m going to discuss one of the practical methods you can protect and diversify your wealth. That is building wealth across borders.

6 February, 20266 February, 2026

Should You Consider Buying Property Abroad?

In this latest post on the Future of Money and wealth, I will introduce the concept of adding Global Resilience to your portfolio, and in this post specifically buying property abroad. In a previous post: Property Investing in a Currency Collapse, I talk about how you can mitigate against a calamitous scenario of your local currency collapsing. One protective method is buying property abroad. Here I take a deeper look at this strategy.

31 January, 202631 January, 2026

Asset Protection in a Hyper-Visible World

On the very day I am writing this, 8^th December 2025, UK politicians are debating a petition rejecting mandatory digital ID, which almost 3 million people have signed. With this in mind, I am continuing this blog series on the future of money, by looking at Asset Protection in a hyper-visible world.

31 January, 202631 January, 2026

Smart Contracts in Real Estate Coming Soon to a Deal Near You

If you have every bought a property in the UK, especially in England or Wales, you will welcome Smart Contracts in the Real Estate market. Currently the average time to complete a residential property purchase is 18-22 weeks.

8 January, 2026

Your First £1,000 in a Decentralised Finance Protocol (Safely)

In this latest post on the future of wealth, we delve into the world of Decentralised Finance Protocol (DeFi). We will also explore how you can start to use it. With that in mind we look at your first £1,000 in a Decentralised Finance Protocol.

8 January, 20268 January, 2026

How Gold and Silver Fit Into a Modern Wealth Plan

In a previous post in this The Future of Money series, we discussed how the Top 5 Hard Assets to Protect Your Wealth Outside the Financial System. Those asses were Real Estate, precious metals, commodities, farmland and infrastructure. This week we take a deeper dive into precious metals and in particular How Gold and Silver Fit into a Modern Wealth Plan.