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Dec 17, 2024 | 
propertychronicle.com | Dominic Frisby
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us…” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859. Here is the world I think we are heading into over the next couple of years.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
propertychronicle.com | Dominic Frisby
The idea of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), money that governments and their planners will be able to programme, rightly fills many of us with an Orwellian sense of dread. “Did you not have the vaccine? Oh, well then you don’t qualify for the next payment.”“Have you been saying wrong things on social media?
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
capx.co | Dominic Frisby
27 November 2024 @DominicFrisby Illustration: Getty Images Illustration: Getty Images The price of bitcoin has surged following the election of Donald Trump Bitcoin is technologically superior to government currency Bitcoin has the potential to become the default medium of exchange on the internet CapX does not offer investment advice. This article is for information only. You are not guaranteed to make money from buying cryptocurrency and you may lose your entire investment. It is now almost...
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
propertychronicle.com | Dominic Frisby
Identifying long-term patterns in markets is easy, acting on them is something else‘The wheel is come full circle,’ commented Shakespeare’s Edgar on the carnage that surrounded him at the end of King Lear. The notion of a wheel of fortune is one that has pervaded since antiquity. There are good times and bad times. There are bull markets and bear markets. There is boom and bust, something Chancellor Gordon Brown said he was going to eliminate.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
moneyweek.com | Dominic Frisby
I have been writing a book about gold, including a chapter on the ancient art of alchemy. Alchemy is a paradox. On the one hand, it is bogus science. You cannot turn base metals into gold. A universal elixir that could cure all diseases and grant eternal life does not exist. And yet far brighter folk than me – from Isaac Newton, who at one stage thought he had cracked it, to Johannes Kepler – have kept on trying. Alchemy has captivated human beings for millennia.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
frisbys.news | Dominic Frisby
You might remember Roy Larner from the London Bridge terror attacks of 2017 - the Millwall fan who fought back against the macheté-wielding Jihadis with the immortal cry “F*$k you I’m Millwall.” He got stabbed eight times for his trouble. Here is a song about him. We weren’t going to make a video of this one, for fear basically, but the incredible reception it has been getting when performed live has changed our minds. I hope you enjoy it. Subscribe and help me make more of these songs.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
moneyweek.com | Dominic Frisby
I don’t know about you, but I use artificial intelligence (AI) all the time. ChatGPT has become my right-hand man. It gives me advice (really – and good advice too), it helps me make decisions, it gives me exercise workouts and recipes; it proofreads what I write, it helps me write titles, it even helps me write song lyrics. Midjourney does all the imaging for my newsletter. Even a simple Google search now involves lots of AI. I know I’m not alone. Almost everyone is using AI, consciously or not.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
propertychronicle.com | Dominic Frisby
For the first time in history, gold went above £2,000/oz yesterday. This is a huge landmark in the decline of sterling. Of course, nobody in the UK echelons of power is talking about it. We are, however, because it matters. Who is buying so much gold that price keeps going up? Why are they buying? There are hugely significant developments taking place in Asia that have the potential to reshape the global financial order. This bull market is not like previous bull markets.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
moneyweek.com | Dominic Frisby
Today we look at what must be the most important price in the world – that of the global reserve currency, the US dollar. Does it go up or down from here? There is probably no more important question in global finance. Why? The dollar is the pricing mechanism for essential materials; commodities such as oil, copper, gold and wheat. International debt is mostly traded in dollars. The International Monetary Fund thinks in dollars.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
moneyweek.com | Dominic Frisby
'Should I invest in gold or silver?' is a question that comes up a lot. In fact, a friend was asking me about it just this week. So let’s try to resolve it here and now, once and for all: gold or silver – which should you buy? Full disclosure: in my own portfolio at one stage I was geared as much as 70% towards silver and 30% towards gold. But in 2011, when silver went to $50, I rolled into gold and never went back. My physical allocation is now probably something like 90% gold and 10% silver.
