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 | May 11, 2026

      The Seduction of Authoritarianism

      “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” - Lord Acton,1887

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    • Finance and Business | May 01, 2026

      What Could Go Wrong? Lots.

      The record-high level of debt across government, corporate, and consumer balance sheets is no secret. It’s been the elephant in the room for a long time, and it’s growing fatter by the decade. Its knees are beginning to buckle. We’ve reached the point where the entire global financial system looks like one giant bubble.

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    • Finance and Business | April 25, 2026

      What Stablecoins Are—and Aren’t

      Stablecoins are different. They are a type of cryptocurrency designed to keep a steady value instead of bouncing up and down like Bitcoin or Ethereum.

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    • Global Affairs | April 14, 2026

      The Ever-Expanding Scope of Presidential Doctrines

      U.S. President James Monroe, addressing Congress amid a wave of Latin American independence movements in 1823, declared that the Western Hemisphere was off-limits to further European colonization and interference. The famous Monroe Doctrine.

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    • Finance and Business | April 09, 2026

      Gold's Ups and Downs

      Lately I’ve been asked multiple times why the price of gold fell after the start of the Iran war.

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    • Finance and Business | April 04, 2026

      The End of Swift Dominance

      I’ve spent decades in the trenches of global finance. I started wiring millions of dollars around the world when a single Telex error could kill a financing deal. In my early days at Merrill Lynch and then Yorkton Securities in Vancouver, in the late 1970s and early 80s, international payments were slow, opaque, and prone to human error. 

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    • Finance and Business | March 23, 2026

      The Price of Gold and Global Debt

      Planet Earth, we have a problem. Actually, we have many problems (the climate crisis, the nuclear threat, the impact of artificial intelligence, etc.), but the one most relevant to the price of gold—which I’m asked about every week—is global debt. 

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    • Finance and Business | February 26, 2026

      The Fatal Attraction of Gold

      There’s a moment in John Huston’s 1948 cinematic masterpiece, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” when the old prospector, Howard, delivers a warning to the young Fred C. Dobbs. The warning isn’t about Mexican banditos or the elements or the risk of dehydration. It’s about the prize they’re seeking in the mountains. He says: “I know what gold does to men’s souls.” The lust for gold has been part of the human condition for thousands of years. Wars have been fought over it. Civilizations have been wiped out because of it. More recently, discoveries in California in 1848 and the Yukon in 1896 set off massive gold rushes that created chaos, new cities, and spectacular fortunes.

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    • Finance and Business | February 12, 2026

      Is Copper at the Start of the Next Supercycle?

      “To maintain global 3% GDP growth, with no electrification, we’ll have to mine the same amount of copper in the next 18 years as we’ve mined in the last 10,000 years.”  - Robert Friedland  I’ve spent decades in the mining world, financing juniors, building companies, and watching cycles come and go. I’ve lived through booms that made fortunes and busts that wiped them out overnight. What we’re facing with copper right now feels different than a boom—deeper, more structural, more consequential. This is more than a commodity rally driven by speculation or short-term supply hiccups. It’s the early stages of a secular bull market that could last a decade or more, as demand grows and supply struggles to keep pace. The world is waking up to a crunch that’s been building for years.

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