From 2007 to 2010 he acted an editorial director of monthly magazine "You & Your Money" owned and published by Ashville Publications.He wrote weekly columns for The Daily Star, Sunday Independent and Sunday Business Post. In October 2009 he launched "Energise – How to Survive and Prosper in the Coming Age of Scarcity, High Inflation and Peak Oil" as an eBook from his website, all profits from which go to the Irish children's charity, The Jack & Jill Foundation. He is a frequent commentator and writer on social, economic and financial affairs on Irish TV, radio and newspapers. Hobbs campaigned against Government appropriation of private pension savings, encouraging savers to instruct pension trustees that they had no authority as custodians to meet Revenue Commissioners' demands, resulting in the Finance Act, which provided for a €380 fine for Trustees for every day the levy payment was delayed. Hobbs directed the letter campaign to urge then President McAleese to refer the Act to the Supreme Court on the basis that it was not taxing legislation but interference with property rights. The Irish President signed the Finance Act into law. The total taken in the pension levy to 2015 is estimated at €2bn.