Why Your Money Buys You Less Every Year - Dominic Frisby

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 October 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Dominic Frisby is a British author, comedian, and financial commentator known for blending economic insight with satirical wit. Follow Dominic's work: Website/Newsletter - https://www.theflyingfrisby.com/ Book - The Secret History of Gold - https://amzn.to/4fAk6MT Triggernometry is proudly independent. Thanks to the sponsors below for making that possible: - Protect your wealth with The Pure Gold Company. Get your free investor guide at https://pure-gold.co/trigger - Superpower: Test 100+ biomarkers. Detect early signs of 1,000+ conditions. Click https://superpower.com Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Substack! https://triggernometry.substack.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Shop Merch here - https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [email protected] Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. 00:00 - Introduction 08:48 - What Is The Gold Standard? 18:22 - Why Did We Leave The Gold Standard? 27:04 - Why Did The US Come Off The Gold Standard? 31:17 - What If America Doesn't Have The Gold It Says It Does? 34:30 - China Has More Gold Than It Is Declaring 44:41 - Why Did Gordon Brown Sell Our Gold Reserves? 46:50 - What Happens To The US And UK If The Dollar Stops Being The Reserve Currency? 48:46 - What Is The Real Rate Of Inflation? 57:04 - Nigel Farage and Reform Won't Do Anything Different To Labour And The Conservatives 01:04:15 - Life Is Becoming Unaffordable For The Ordinary Person 01:06:55 - What's The One Thing We're Not Talking About That We Really Should Be? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think this is the biggest story in world finance, and nobody is looking at it.
0:06.0	So the big conspiracy is that America does not have the gold that it says it does.
0:11.0	Both Trump and Musk said, we're going to audit the gold. We're going to audit the gold.
0:14.0	The story's gone. What happened?
0:16.0	China has understated its gold holdings by, it could be as much as 10 times.
0:21.6	And if at the same time China comes along and says, you know, we've got five times as much gold as we said we did, it's tantamount to a declaration of financial war.
0:33.6	He who has the gold makes the rules, and China will have the gold.
0:37.5	China will already does have the gold.
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1:01.0	Dominic Frisby, welcome back to Sugarnomche.
1:04.0	Thank you very much, Constantine. Thank you, Francis.
1:06.0	It's great to have you back.
1:08.0	A third interview with you.
1:09.0	We talked about taxes and Bitcoin in the first one. I think we talked about something very personal to you and your family in the second one, which was really great. And this one, we want to talk about gold, money, tax. And I saw a perfect quote on my way into work this morning, which I just thought sums up the conversation we're about to have beautifully. It's apparently misattributed to lots of people, but I'll read it to you anyway.
1:29.6	All the best quotes are.
1:30.8	A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
1:34.4	It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself large-ess out of the public treasury.
1:40.6	And it's attributed to a Scottish historian, Alexander Fraser, Tidler.
1:44.3	But the reason I bring it up is I actually think since we've gone off the gold standard,
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