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Venezuela Just Proved Why You Need Sovereign Money
<p>If the stories are to be believed, and the first casualty of war is truth and all that, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro sent some 3.6 million ounces of gold - $16 billion in today’s money - to Switzerland before 2017, when the EU brought sanctions against Venezuela.</p><p>Switzerland last week froze his accounts and the accounts of some 36 others with close ties. We don’t know how much money he had in them, or how many accounts there were, but the figure doing the rounds is $10 billion.</p><p>It has also emerged that Tether has been freezing “wallets identi...
My Terrible Predictions for 2026
<p>It’s that time of year again.</p><p>What’s going to happen? What does the future hold?</p><p>We all want to know. </p><p>Knowing what’s going to happen makes you feel better.</p><p>NostreDominic is here to tell you.</p><p>Here are 19 predictions for 2026</p><p>1. Gold Breaks $5,000</p><p>Gold doesn’t quite have the year it had in 2025, but it has a good year nonetheless and rises above $5,000/oz</p><p><p>On which note: Charlie Morris’s monthly gold report, Atlas Pulse is, in my view, the best gold newsl...
What I Want From 2026 (And Why I'm Telling You)
<p></p><p>Happy New Year to you.</p><p>This time last year I did something I’d never done before, which was to publish my New Year’s resolutions.</p><p>I was nervous about doing it because, despite constantly putting stuff out on the internet, I’m actually quite private about some things, and it made me feel quite vulnerable publishing them.</p><p>However, publicly stating goals pushes you to achieve them. You’re making yourself accountable, so you’re more likely to deliver. It also clarifies what you’re actually looking for, and solidifies goals beyond abstr...
My Terrible Predictions, My Terrific Portfolio
<p>Good Sunday to you, </p><p>Before we begin, let me flag this week’s commentary. </p><p>This a trade with a remarkably successful hit rate, a clear timescale and a relatively easy risk to manage - you know pretty quickly if it isn’t working. 8 of last year’s 9 ideas worked. By my reckoning you will find the biggest bargains of the year tomorrow, Monday December 22, and Tuesday December 23. So take a look: </p><p>Right, so today I am marking my own homework.</p><p>Every year, as old timer’s will know, I like to offer so...
Taxing Ourselves Into Oblivion
<p></p><p>I was having breakfast with my son, daughter-in-law and grand child earlier in the week. He is 25, she is 24, and baby is 5 weeks old.</p><p>They’re both pretty successful in their jobs - both in sales, on commission, so very much performance-based - and they both work very hard. They are ambitious. They want a big house with a big family, and plenty of money to live off. Pretty normal ambitions, really, and once upon a time not so impossible to achieve.</p><p>I’m extremely proud of them both for having gone against the...
3 Ways to Profit from the Boom in Illegal Immigration
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com<br/><br/><p></p><p>Before we come to the main thrust of today’s piece, there is something I need to flag. We are just coming into North American tax loss selling season, and a number of you have asked if I will be putting together a portfolio of tax loss trades this year.</p><p>The answer is, “maybe”.</p><p>I’m not sure how well it will work this year for reasons you are about to find out, but it’s somethin...
Sell the Cutlery: Why This Silver Bull Market Won't Last Forever
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com<br/><br/><p>I found myself at a very VIP event last night at the home of a well-known politician. There was a heck of lot of money, age and experience in the room. I felt like I’d gone back in time to the City of the 1980s.</p><p>I got talking to an old boy who, it turned out, had made his money in mining. He had worked at one point for the Hunt Brothers (who famously tried to corner the si...
When Your Gold Heist Becomes Someone Else's Gold Heist
<p>Good Sunday to you,</p><p>A bit of admin before we come to today’s thought piece.</p><p>First, in case you missed it, here is this week’s commentary, mostly ranting about the budget, the UK’s inept leadership and what actions you, as an investor, should take:</p><p>And this week I also appeared on comedian Geoff Norcott’s podcast, What Most People Think. Here are the links to the show on Apple and Spotify, if of interest.</p><p>But for your thought piece today, we have another great little World War Two gold sto...
Further Steps on the Road to Serfdom
<p>There will be no growth in the UK.</p><p>Chancellor Reeves’ budget was designed to placate left-wing back benchers, who want greater spending, and the bond markets. In that, it has succeeded. For now.</p><p>The ever-shrinking part of the country that actually builds wealth (and remember there are only 3 ways to build real wealth: you grow stuff, you mine stuff or you make stuff. Everything else is just pushing it about) is being further taxed to pay for it all. There are now extra taxes on property, dividends and savings, while fiscal drag means more people wi...
The 10 Largest Slaving Civilisations in History
<p>The Romans enslaved 160 million people. The Mughals 112 million. The Mali Empire 57 million. Your Sunday deep dive into the data they don’t teach in schools.</p><p>We have crunched the numbers across 5,000 years of human civilisation, and ranked the results. What we found will surprise you - and might just change how you think about the past.</p><p>Substack subscribers see this first, before it goes to X, Facebook, Insta and YouTube next week.</p><p><p>Know others who should see this?</p></p><p>If of interest, the research for this video can be found he...
