The Flying Frisby
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Most-reacted post we have seen: When Time Stops — 109 reactions on Sep 6, 2026.
Recent posts
- The 2.5% Deposit Trap
There are so many ways to bring down the cost of new build in the UK, chief among them reduced regulation, planning and taxation. So I was most disappointed, putting it mildly, to see Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s new initiative, Your First Home, which will give government-backed equity loans of 20% to first time buyers, who will now be able to buy new build property with just a 2.5% deposit. Initially, that 20% will be interest-free. This is just another means to saddle young people with debt. As if student loans weren’t bad enough. Unlike period property, new build struggles to keep its…
- They’re Coming for Your Money. Don’t Let Them Take It.
Good morning to you and a big welcome to the many new subscribers, both paid and unpaid, who have joined the Flying Frisby this week. We are now the Number One riser in Finance and Number Two in the UK , so we must be doing something right. If you have not yet received your Britain On Sale report, you can access it here. (Any issues getting hold of it, DM me or reply to this email - paid subscribers only). BTW the subscription price goes up at midnight tonight, so if you want to lock in the current rate, now is the time to upgrade . So to today’s piece, and an important one, I think, as this…
- Odyssey, Bitcoin & the Three-Pinter
Good Sunday to you, I finally went to see Odyssey last night. I’d been intending not to, after everything I’d read on X, but my daughter persuaded me, and I actually quite enjoyed it. Maybe not an A+ movie, but a pleasant enough way to spend a few hours. I didn’t feel violated by all the casting, in the way that purists were, although Helen should have been stunningly beautiful, which she wasn’t. To use the parlance of the incel rugby player, she was a three-pinter. And what people see in Zendeya, who plays Athena, remains a mystery to me. Given that Athena is the Goddess of Wisdom I would…
- 1. My Ten Largest Gold-Mining Positions
I have a whopper of a report for you today. But before we begin, I want to warn you about something that is extremely concerning. As I’m sure you know, over the years, somebody has been repeatedly impersonating me in order to scam people who read or watch my stuff. They have now gone up a level and created an AI mock up of me with which they are now conducting video calls. One reader sent me this video message they received. Yes, it’s a bit crap - my shirts aren’t that well ironed - but some people’s detection of AI is not as good as others, and people who don’t know me well could easily fall…
- Oil, Bitcoin, Pineapples & Liz Truss
Good Sunday to you, Keep those long oil positions. I can’t pretend to be an authority on Middle Eastern geopolitics, but the control the Houthi rebels now have over the Yemen Red Sea coast, together with the closure of Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline, look pretty significant to me, and not in a good way. Meanwhile, I have lots to share today, starting with this week’s commentary. We are going into the buy zone for the next bitcoin cycle and, if you haven’t already, I think you should be aiming to have your long positions in place by November-December. There’s nothing worse than being on the…
- How to Play the Next Bitcoin Cycle
Bitcoin is both vo latile and cyclical. You get periods of extraordinary gains. But then you get periods of extraordinary losses. But … If you can buy during low points in the cycle, that volatility can work in your favour. And the house view is that we are within a month or two of the low point right here and now. It might be that the very low was on July 1st at $58,000. It might be that we need to give that price one more retest this autumn. Either way you want to be sure that by November-December, if you haven’t already, you have your long position in place, ready for the next run. There…
- When Time Stops
One of the best things you can do with your time is hire a boat that you can sleep on and float up a river for a few days. Time stops. Absorb the weather, whatever form it takes, but sunny is best. Breathe in the air. Sleep as the boat gently bobs up and down. Contemplate. Talk. Play games. Eat. Swim. Peace descends and nothing much matters any more. I’ve done this several times on the Thames and, having just spent a few days in Serbia, I now plan to do the same thing on the Danube. I just had a little taster. The River Danube - as low as it has ever been I flew out to Serbia because I was…
- The Three Financial Storms on the Horizon
Yes, physical gold is a safe haven, but gold also attracts a lot of speculative capital, particularly the paper markets. Gold futures are among the most traded futures in the world, and there is nothing physical about them. So when there is a panic, gold tends to sell off along with everything else as liquidity dries up and everyone rushes to cash. The US dollar is actually the safe haven, except that it isn’t, because you are bleeding 7 or 8% of value every year to money supply growth. I am getting so many messages at the moment asking me what to do “when the collapse comes”, as though the…
- Swimming with Anarchists
Good Sunday to you, A couple of interviews to share this week, both talking about the precious. First, on Dutch channel Reinvent Money. (Host Paul Buitink is a bit of a legend by the way in the “alternative money” scene. Our paths first crossed in 2013, when he produced the Goldmoney podcast, which I used to host. Love that guy.) Then last week I was in Serbia playing my libertarian songs at an anarchy conference in Liberland, as you do. The Free Republic of Liberland, in case you are not familiar, is an island in the River Danube between Croatia and Serbia. Here is your author looking…
- The Commodity Supercycle Has Begun
Today’s post is short and simple. Investing is often best done that way. The short of it is this: a new commodities supercycle has begun. It’s going to last several years. You want to be long natural resources and natural resource companies. The declining purchasing power of national currencies muddies the waters, but I should say that the eventual price of commodities, metals, grains, meats, fossil fuels, softs such as coffee and cotton, is lower. This is especially the case if you measure them using a constant unit of account such as gold. Unless you subscribe to peak oil theories and the…
- Alasdair Macleod: Only A Gold Standard Can Stop The Currency Collapse
Good Sunday to you, This week I’m talking to the goldbugs’ goldbug, Alasdair Macleod. I’m more of a continued decline, muddle through guy, but Alasdair, as you shall see, is very much in the outright collapse camp and he sees that outright collapse coming soon, as you shall hear - within the next 18 months! Alasdair has spent decades studying financial markets, monetary history and the role of gold, and his argument is uncompromising: gold is money; pounds, dollars and euros are credit. I could not agree more. Confidence in fiat currencies is approaching breaking point, he says, and any…
- Copper Is Telling Us Something
I have been banging the drum for copper for some time, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. Gold has the glamour, but many, including veteran investor Rick Rule, now see the greater opportunity in copper. In summer 2024, I highlighted three copper companies Amerigo Resources (ARG.TO) at around C$1.75 and Arizona Sonoran Copper (ASCU.TO) at C$1.36 and QCCU (QCCU.V) at 12c . Amerigo and Arizona Sonora both hit C$8 on Monday meaning gains of ~350% and ~500% . QCCU, on the other hand, is still at 12c. You can’t win them all. Back in May we noted that things were getting a little…
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