Frank Giustra

I am Frank Giustra and this is my personal Blog, where I share with you some of the lessons I have learnt in life, books I have read, and my thoughts and opinions on current affairs, geopolitics, macro economic trends and finance. I also provide insights from fascinating people I have met, and adventures I have had. It is also a place for me to share stories about my passion for food, as well as news from some of the incredible initiatives my philanthropic foundations are working on.

I have been lucky enough to have a long and expansive career. I grew up as the son of Italian immigrants who moved to Canada before I was born, and started my career in the investment banking sector before realizing my entrepreneurial spirit and founding various companies including Lionsgate Entertainment. I'm CEO of the Fiore Group, a firm that has launched many companies in the resource sector.

A good deal of my time and resources now goes into supporting charities within both my international and domestic charity foundations as well as organizations I have co-founded. 

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  • Latest Posts

    • Global Affairs | August 30, 2026

      Refuge in Audacity

      Late in the life of the Western Roman Empire, public office turned into a private profit center. Officials sold positions, extorted taxes past their legal limits, padded payrolls, and debased the coinage. The historian Ramsay MacMullen traced the empire's loss of control to the privatization of government power. High officials chased personal gain until central authority thinned out and local strongmen filled the vacuum.

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    • Finance and Business | July 13, 2026

      Gold's "Love Trade"

      Whenever I see the U.S. media suggest that cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin, will replace gold, I give my head a shake and remind myself that there’s a big world out there consistently voting with its wallet.

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    • Finance and Business | July 07, 2026

      From Cash to Trash, Rinse and Repeat

      The only novelty today is the scale at which the experiment is being run and the amnesia with which it’s being conducted. Those who imagine the outcome will be any different this time around might usefully recall that the Continental Congress also believed its circumstances were unique—until the notes stopped buying anything at all.

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    • Culture | June 27, 2026

      Time to Rein in AI?

      ​​​​​​​Imagine inventing a tool so advanced that it starts figuring out ways to protect its own existence without anyone teaching it to do so. This is no longer a plot from a science fiction movie. In mid-2026, this is the reality emerging from the world’s leading artificial intelligence laboratories. We’re creating systems that are beginning to act strategically, and society is struggling to keep up.

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    • Books I’m Reading | June 24, 2026

      Canadian Entrepreneur Frank Giustra Explores Wealth, Success, and Life Purpose in Compelling New Memoir

      What happens when, at age 39, you achieve your lifelong dream of getting rich— and then realize it doesn't make you content? Renowned entrepreneur Frank Giustra explores the deeper meaning of wealth in his highly entertaining, warts-and-all memoir, The Money Dilemma: My Unlikely Path to Wealth, Philanthropy, and Peace, set for release on November 3, 2026, through Page Two.

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    • Books I’m Reading | June 15, 2026

      THE WAR MACHINE: A book review

      Wars are woven into the fabric of human history. Most people are aware that national security has always been a fundamental preoccupation of almost every government. What they’re not aware of is the extent to which wars are engineered by an elite minority of the population to enrich themselves or gain and maintain power.

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    • Finance and Business | June 08, 2026

      This Time is Different?

      We all die. In some ways, that’s a good thing; including in my case, though I would like to stick around long enough to see how this latest chapter of human folly plays out. 

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    • Finance and Business | June 01, 2026

      What Comes After the U.S. Dollar System?

      For the past 50 years, the petrodollar has served America’s purposes ideally; much to the chagrin of an increasingly large part of the world. Today, the dollar’s gradual retreat from its outsized role is inevitable. Like the tides, and like empires, reserve currencies rise and fall in predictable patterns.

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    • Finance and Business | May 18, 2026

      The Petrodollar Police

      If the petrodollar keeps losing its hold, the U.S. dollar will lose its reserve status. If that happens, the entire financial house of cards, built on the assumption that the world will always need dollars, will come crashing down.

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