The Flying Frisby - money, markets and more

Dominic Frisby goes to Portcullis House to interview to Conservative MP, author and blogger, Douglas Carswell.

Douglas Carswell is co-author of best selling book, The Plan; 12-months to renew Britain and Douglas is an advocate of political reform. Douglas co-wrote “Direct Democracy; an agenda for a new model party”, which the Spectator magazine described as “One of the founding texts for the new, revitalised Toryism… written by some of the brightest young Conservative thinkers”.In 2009, The Daily Telegraph nominated him a Briton of the Year, and Spectator readers voted him Parliamentarian of the Year.

Before politic Doug had proper jobs, working in commercial television and then fund management. He first stood for Parliament against Tony Blair, as the Conservative candidate for Sedgefield in 2001. He was first elected to Parliament in 2005. He was returned as MP for Clacton in 2010 with a 12,000 majority.

He blogs each day at www.TalkCarswell.com and has written for the Financial Times,Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, News of the World, Telegraph and Spectator, as well as appearing on the Politics Show, Newsnight, Sky and Radio 4’s Week in Westminster and Westminster Hour.

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Dominic Frisby talks Colombian gold mining with Paul Harris, author of the Colombia Gold Report and the Colombia Gold Letter.

Paul Harris is a mining journalist who moved out to Colombia in 2008, having been in Chile for five years.

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Dominic Frisby talks to investor Simon Caufield about his bearish outlook for US equities.

Simon Caufield is a mathematician. After 10 years as an engineer, he took an MBA and then became a consultant to the financial industry. In 2001 he started his own software company which he sold in 2007. He then ’sacked’ his fund managers and took control of his own investing using a value approach. After a great deal of success between 2008 and 2010,  he began writing the True Value newsletter for Moneyweek Magazine.

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Dominic Frisby meets Detlev Schlichter and discusses some of the issues from his book, Paper Money Collapse.

Detlev is an author and Austrian School Economist.

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Dominic Frisby talks to market historian Bob Hoye of Institutional Advisors. Bob is bullish on gold stocks …

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The cynic is back. Dominic Frisby talks to veteran private investor, Dr John Wolstencroft. The good doctor is in a positive frame of mind as he presents 18 thoughts on the seniors - and declares this is a once in a generation opportunity.

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Dominic Frisby talks to Michael Green and Matthew Bishop, authors of a new book about the future of money - In Gold We Trust? The Future Of Money In An Age Of Uncertainty.

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Matthew Bishop is the US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief of The Economist. Mr. Bishop was previously the magazine’s London-based Business Editor.

Michael Green is an independent economist and writer, who previously co-authored Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save The World with Matthew Bishop. He is currently working on a report for the US Committee of Concerned Journalists on how the media needs to change in response to the financial crisis. Previously he was a senior official at the Department for International Development, and taught economics at Warsaw University in Poland.

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Dominic Frisby meets Peter Dougherty, president of Argonaut Gold (AR.TO).

Peter gives his opinions on the state of the gold mining sector, as well as telling us about Argonaut. Formed just two years and operating in Mexico, Argonaut is already producing gold as well as bringing other gold mining properties into production.

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Dominic Frisby talks to Brent Cook, veteran geologist, who writes the newsletter Exploration Insights.

They discuss the current bear market, the outlook - and how best to play it.

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Dominic Frisby talks to television reporter and writer Ben Anderson about his new book, No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afganistan.

From Wikipedia: Anderson is perhaps most famous for Holidays in the Axis of Evil, the BBC series where he travelled secretly to Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria, Libya and Cuba. He also made films about gang wars in El Salvador, the landless movement in Brazil, pollution in Varanasi, homosexuals in America, Maoist insurgents in Bihar, water rights for Palestinians in the West Bank, the third generation of Agent Orange victims in Vietnam, deportees and pimps in Cambodia and the war in Southern Iraq.

His recent work included “Taking on the Taliban“, a harrowing film that resulted from two months in Helmand, Afghanistan’s most violent province, with the Queen’s Company, Grenadier Guards. The film was shortlisted for RTS programme and Journalism awards, as a well as a BAFTA. He has since covered Slave labour in Dubai, and new threats and solutions to deforestation for BBC 1’s Panorama.

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