With the renewed tension in the Middle East, we’ve seen the return of familiar themes from the past few years. Rising costs, inflation risks, and the creeping sense that we may not be as far removed from it all as many had hoped. Most prominent in people’s minds is the immediate impact on fuel prices and the expected pass through into broader energy costs.

Money should, in theory, be a relatively easy thing to understand. We interact with it every day after all. Unfortunately, it’s not quite as simple as just ‘the money in your account’. That being said, just because something isn’t straightforward doesn’t mean we should seek to make it harder than it needs to be.

Governments around the world have taken on eye-watering levels of debt, and whether you realise it or not, you're paying the price every day. In this post I want to discuss how national debt quietly erodes the populations wealth to provoke further thought on what it means for you and how to take back control.