The Flying Frisby - money, markets and more

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com Today, we are going to look at gold, bitcoin , and our way of playing it, MicroStrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR), which has now 10xd (!) since we first covered it last year . Amazing. Finally, there'll be a short update on gold miners. Remember them? Let’s start with gold. Gold - and most other metals - has been hit since t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com I’m sending out today’s missive a day later than usual because I wanted to see the market reaction to the US election results and leave a little time to digest it all. Broadly speaking, I am happy with the result, and I believe the world will be a better place for it than the alternative. We’ll see less technocra...

I am travelling this weekend so today’s thought piece is a conversation, which Mining Network recorded last week week between veteran gold guru, Alasdair Macleod, and myself. It’s heavyweight goldbug stuff. I hope you enjoy it. You can watch it below, but I have also ripped the audio so you have the option to listen to that if you prefer to escape the clutch of your screens. If you are thinking of...

I’m in Buenos Aires this week, so I might be a little slow reporting on today’s budget, but I’ll come to it, don’t you worry. Shortly before Covid hit, I became CEO of a Canadian company by the name of Cypherpunk Holdings (HODL.CN) . I was very pleased with that ticker symbol—HODL. My idea. But I did not have a clue what would happen as a result … I’m writing about the company today because, even...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com (NB: At the end of this piece there is a short note on Lightbridge Corp (NASDAQ:LTBR), which has tripled since I covered it a fortnight ago ). I have suffered from asthma for as long as I can remember. Others have it worse than me. I had always been able to manage it with drugs – salbutamol mostly – but, all the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com NB If you missed Sunday’s piece about what next to do with Lightbridge after its incredible rally - 3x in a week - it is here . This week has the potential to be one of the most significant weeks in the history of money. 36 world leaders, including China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi, and UN Secretary-Gener...

Here’s something a little different as your Sunday thought piece today - my Edinburgh “lecture with funny bits”. I hope you enjoy it. It lasts 50 minutes, so next time you fancy a bit of “edutainment” give it watch. The first part is available to all, and you can unlock the full experience by becoming a paid subscriber. I was super-pleased with this one, as I think I might have mentioned ;) Meanwh...

Something a little different for you today. I am speaking at the Battle of Ideas this weekend on three rather different matters: * Immigration and Demographics * Who Is the World’s Greatest Comic? * Why Cash Keeps Us Free Do come. You can get tickets here. With this years Battle in mind, the Academy of Ideas asked me to write one of its Letters on Liberty . Here it is for your reading or listening...

Quick heads up. I have made some video versions of recent articles. Here they are, in case you are a watcher rather than a reader: 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, recipes, it proofreads what I write, it help...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com Final call for my “lecture with funny bits” about mining this Thursday . Hope to see you there. But here it is, finally, the follow-up to How to Sleep Well , in which we address the bane of many who would sleep well: peeing in the night. Did you know one in three adults over 30 and more that half of adults over 5...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com You can watch a video of this article here: 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 go...

I’m delaying the follow up to last week’s piece on sleep for another week because I am still experimenting ;). In the meantime, I hope today’s little story will put a smile on your face. And a reminder there are just a handful of tickets left for my “lecture with funny bits” at the Museum of Comedy on October 10th - October 9th was cancelled - sorry. This is a super interesting show, even though I...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com There are just a handful of tickets left for my “lecture with funny bits” at the Museum of Comedy on October 10th - October 9th got cancelled - events beyond our control, sorry. This is a super interesting show, even though I say so myself. If you are free, I really recommend it . Some charts have been doing the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com Innocent sleep … sore labor’s bath,Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,Chief nourisher in life’s feast. William Shakespeare Sleep is so important to your well-being. Your mind works better when you sleep well. Your moods improve. Your outlook improves. Your physical condition improves. Your health im...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com Don’t forget Shaping The Earth, “my lecture with funny bits” in London this October 9th and 10th at the Museum of Comedy . Please come if you fancy a bit of “learning and laughter”. Three subjects I want to briefly look at today, starting with everyone’s favourite non-government money. There were rich promises of...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com You can watch a video of this article: When I was 19, I started getting these weird heat rashes. Every day, whenever I got hot, these debilitating, paralysing heat rashes would envelop me. Burning, bumpy, red weals suddenly covered my body. So itchy—you wanted to scratch everywhere, though scratching brought no r...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com You can watch a video of this article here: Robert F. Kennedy has been grabbing headlines this week, not just for his alliance with Donald Trump, but for his criticisms of the American food industry, which he holds responsible for the epidemic of obesity and poor health. I can’t believe what he has to say is even...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com A cock-up at HQ some of you didn’t see Sunday’s piece about a scam in the gold bullion markets. Here it is ICYMI: Also in video format if you prefer. Now we look at what must be the most important price in the world: that is the price of the global reserve currency, the US dollar. Does it go up or down from here?...

You can also watch this article in video format here: There are some unscrupulous bullion dealers out there who are taking advantage of rookie buyers who don’t entirely know what they are doing when buying gold. I am not going to name names. But don’t fall the scam If a dealer tries to flog you graded coins, in almost all cases they are trying to rip you off. Don’t pay a premium for graded coins....

If you would rather watch this piece go here: IMPORTANT: somebody has been impersonating me on Substack, on Instagram and on YouTube. Please don’t engage. Report and block. And please DON’T send any money. Thanks to all who came to see Shaping The Earth up in Edinburgh. The show got incredible feedback. I am doing it in London October 9th and 10th at the Museum of Comedy . Please come if you fancy...

(And, no, I’m not standing on a stool!) After the unexpected popularity of my post about weight loss (still can’t believe it had 11 million views ), I am trying something a little bit different this Sunday morning with this short video about dead hangs, while doing a dead hang. I am planning to cover alternative health a bit more frequently on here in the Sunday morning thought pieces. (NB If you...

To watch this piece, go to: 1. There are more people in the world than ever - and we all want better lives There are some 8.2 billion people in the world - more than ever - and, whether it’s people displaced by war, famine, or lack of water, or (the big one) people seeking a better life with more opportunity, more us are on the move than ever. Some stats: 4.6 billion live on less than $10/day. 7 b...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com IMPORTANT: somebody has been impersonating me on here and asking readers to message them on WhatsApp. Obviously it is not me. Don’t engage. Stop engaging and block, if you have started. And DON’T send any money. I am now at the Edinburgh Fringe with Shaping the Earth, a “lecture with funny bits” about the history...

I am now at the Edinburgh Fringe with Shaping the Earth, a “lecture with funny bits” about the history of mining. I’m then taking the show to London on October 9th and 10th to the Museum of Comedy . Please come if you fancy a bit of “learning and laughter”. The Edinburgh link is here. And the London link is here. ALSO IMPORTANT: somebody has been impersonating me on here and asking readers to mess...

Good Sunday afternoon to you, I was blown away by the response to Wednesday’s article about weight loss. The Twitter/X summary got more than 10 million views. Here it is, in case you missed it. Going forward, I am thinking of writing more alternative health stuff, as there seems to be a huge appetite for it. But today it’s business as usual: gold. And I have a question for you … The Great Steppe s...