Podcast Episodes

The Largest Movement of Wealth in History

NB To help you visualise: a tonne of gold would be about the size of a beachball, albeit one you couldn’t lift, or a medium-sized suitcase. If it were a cube, it would have sides just under 15 inches…

Published on 2 months ago

Game Over for Bitcoin Treasury Companies?

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com

The UK Financial Conduct Authority has announced that it is loosening its anti-bitcoin stance. From October 8th re…

Published on 2 months ago

Trust Me, I’m Stalin

“They will never see their gold again, just as they do not see their own ears.”Josef Stalin

Gold’s strength is that its value exists in and of itself. It’s nobody else’s liability. Unlike money in the…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

The Sweetness of Doing Nothing: Another Year of Lazy Gains

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com

The idea behind Dolce Far Niente was to create a portfolio of low-risk investments for today’s market conditions, …

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

The Secret’s Out: My New Book on Gold Is (Almost) Here

I’m delighted to announce my new book, The Secret History of Gold - Myth, Money, Politics and Power, published by Penguin Life.

It tells the epic tale of humanity’s oldest and most treasured currency…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

The Shadowbanning of Bitcoin

This week I was listening to Merryn Talks Money.

My old boss and great friend, Merryn Somerset Webb, was discussing portfolio allocation - which assets should make up the 40 in a 60:40 bond-to-equit…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

You Would Be the Chancellor Who Sold Britain’s Bitcoin

(I am sending this week’s commentary early this week due to travel)

Dear Chancellor,

Me again.

I am the author of Bitcoin: The Future of Money? (2014), generally agreed to the first book on bitcoin from…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Bitcoin Can Make Your Rich But Gold Might Save you

At Freedom Fest 2025 last month, I joined a very sensible panel - grown up people saying intelligent things - in a gold vs bitcoin debate, from which I came way thinking, “Oh, that was quite good”.

I…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Currencies in Crisis — Except Two

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com

I wanted to consider the Great (irony klaxon) British pound today, and indeed currencies more generally.

So many pe…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Gold: The Only Thing Standing Still

I wanted to take a look at gold today.

I’m going to dust off my powers of divination — or as they call it in the City, technical analysis - and see if we can figure out where it is going next.

As thing…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago