Ep. 207: Dominic Frisby Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2014

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Dominic Frisby, a self-proclaimed accidental financial bod, comedian, actor of unrecognized genius, voice of many things, & presenter.

The topic is his book Life After the State: Why We Don't Need Government.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Frisby’s beginnings as an actor and comedian
What comedy can teach us about finance and the discipline of clarity
How Cuba’s currency confusion led the nation to unfortunate circumstances
Real estate
Other peoples’ trust in the state
How the poor and needy would be cared for in a society without a state
The monopoly on compassion
How the state takes a piece of everything
“Greed is good”, “money is the root of all evil”, etc
Crony capitalism
Predation vs. productivity
The influence of lobbyists
The duopoly on money by banks and the state
Education
Bitcoin, digital currency, and taxation

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.3	That's my passion.
0:33.2	Today on the show I have Dominic Frisbee.
0:36.3	He describes himself as an accidental financial bod, comedian, actor of unrecognized genius, voice of many things, and a presenter.
0:45.9	His new book is Life After the State.
0:50.3	I can't remember who exactly told me that I had to talk to Dominic, but I checked him out online.
0:54.6	I think I saw an interview with him and Max Kaiser, and I was like, ooh, Dominic's got something to say.
1:01.0	So I thought it'd be a cool conversation.
1:03.1	I hope you enjoy.
1:09.9	Yes, Dominic. How you doing? I'm well. Michael.
1:11.7	Yes, Dominic.
1:13.0	How are you doing?
1:14.1	I'm well.
1:15.7	Good.
1:19.2	Now, let me just play with my volume button.
1:21.9	Now, how does this sound?
1:23.2	You sound good.
1:30.7	Excellent, because I'm using an iPhone, so technology is working.
1:36.5	Well, I'm on a MacBook Air. Sometimes I've used iPhones for sure. Yeah, it's awesome.
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