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	<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:52:26 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title>THE WAR MACHINE: A book review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wars&nbsp;are woven into the fabric of human history.&nbsp;Most people are&nbsp;aware that national security&nbsp;has always&nbsp;been a fundamental preoccupation of almost every government. What they&rsquo;re not&nbsp;aware of is the extent to which wars&nbsp;are&nbsp;engineered&nbsp;by an elite minority of the population to enrich themselves or gain and maintain power.

The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:32:17 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title>This Time is Different?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all die. In some ways, that&rsquo;s a good thing; including&nbsp;in my case, though&nbsp;I&nbsp;would like&nbsp;to stick around long enough to see how this latest chapter&nbsp;of human folly&nbsp;plays out.&nbsp;

Without the quiet exit of one generation, the world remains cluttered with entrenched interests and ideas that have outlived their usefulness. Old structures, like stubborn weeds, choke off the sunlight needed for fresh growth. Renewal demands space.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:06:34 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title>What Comes After the U.S. Dollar System?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past 50 years, the petrodollar has served America&rsquo;s purposes&nbsp;ideally&mdash;much to the chagrin of an increasingly&nbsp;large&nbsp;part&nbsp;of the world.&nbsp;Today, the&nbsp;dollar&rsquo;s&nbsp;gradual retreat from its outsized role is inevitable. Like the tides,&nbsp;and like empires,&nbsp;reserve currencies rise and fall&nbsp;in&nbsp;predictable patterns.

That said,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:16:04 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/what-comes-after-the-u.s-dollar-system/</link>

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		<title>The Petrodollar Police</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you were asked how the United States protects its national security, you might think first of the U.S. military. Or maybe you&rsquo;d say it&rsquo;s America&rsquo;s extensive intelligence network that keeps it secure. Or the vast oceans that buffer its eastern and western borders. In fact, there&rsquo;s a tool that&rsquo;s more important than any of those: the dollar&rsquo;s status as the world&rsquo;s reserve currency.&nbsp;

For the past fifty years,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 23:06:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title>The Seduction of Authoritarianism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.&rdquo; - Lord Acton, 1887

The most dangerous shifts in a society rarely arrive with a bang. They arrive&nbsp;in&nbsp;a whisper &mdash; a seductive promise of restored pride. They&nbsp;grow out of&nbsp;legitimate frustration, and they are often welcomed by a disenfranchised populace desperate for order and prosperity. This is the grim lesson of the 20th century&rsquo;s most infamous regimes,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 19:39:16 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/the-seduction-of-authoritarianism/</link>

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		<title>What Could Go Wrong? Lots.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The record-high level of debt across government, corporate, and consumer balance sheets is no secret. It&rsquo;s been the elephant in the room for a long time, and it&rsquo;s growing fatter by the decade. Its knees are beginning to buckle. We&rsquo;ve reached the point where the entire global financial system looks like one giant bubble.

Total US government debt sits north of $39 trillion and is growing at over $2 trillion annually. Corporate debt is at record levels.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 03:35:18 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title>What Stablecoins Are—and Aren’t</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The crypto world, for the most part, is nothing but a giant casino. And that&rsquo;s being kind. Actual casinos at least have rules. The crypto world is still a largely unregulated Wild West. Most crypto projects lack genuine utility, user adoption, or sustainable value. Some of them are outright scams -- just ask inmates like Daren Li or Sam Bankman Fried.

Stablecoins are different.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:03:22 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/what-stablecoins-are-and-arent/</link>

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		<title>The Ever-Expanding Scope of Presidential Doctrines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.

At the time, the United States was still fragile after the War of 1812, and Monroe feared that European monarchies, fresh from defeating Napoleon,&nbsp;might try to reclaim their lost colonies.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:09:40 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/the-ever-expanding-scope-of-presidential-doctrines/</link>

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		<title>Gold&apos;s Ups and Downs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&rsquo;ve been asked multiple times why the price of gold fell after the start of the Iran war. When the U.S. and Israel started pounding that country in late February, many people expected gold, a classic safe-haven asset, to rally. Instead, after spiking above $5,400 per ounce, the yellow metal reversed sharply and fell below $4,200 by late March. Silver followed suit.&nbsp;

Headlines&nbsp;warned&nbsp;&ldquo;Gold is Crashing During a War,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Gold is Looking Less Glittery.&rdquo;]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:40:09 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/golds-ups-and-downs/</link>

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		<title>The End of Swift Dominance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;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.&nbsp;

In brokerage offices, Telex machines clattered away with messages that had to be deciphered like ancient scrolls.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:12:12 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title>The Price of Gold and Global Debt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&mdash;which I&rsquo;m asked about every week&mdash;is global debt.&nbsp;

The problem with global debt is that we have a ton of it, more than ever before. In 2001, it was $60 trillion. In 2020 it stood at $226 trillion. As of early 2026,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:29:02 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/the-price-of-gold-and-global-debt/</link>

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		<title>The Fatal Attraction of Gold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&rsquo;s a moment in John Huston&rsquo;s 1948 cinematic masterpiece, &ldquo;The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,&rdquo; when the old prospector, Howard, delivers a warning to the young Fred C. Dobbs. The warning isn&rsquo;t about Mexican banditos, or the elements, or the risk of dehydration. It&rsquo;s about the prize they&rsquo;re seeking in the mountains. He says: &ldquo;I know what gold does to men&rsquo;s souls.&rdquo;

The lust for gold has been part of the human condition for thousands of years.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:57:34 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>Is Copper at the Start of the Next Supercycle?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;To maintain global 3% GDP growth, with no electrification,&nbsp;we&rsquo;ll&nbsp;have to mine the same amount of copper in the next 18 years as we&rsquo;ve&nbsp;mined in the last 10,000 years.&rdquo;&nbsp; - Robert Friedland&nbsp;

I&rsquo;ve spent decades in the mining world, financing juniors, building companies, and watching cycles come and go. I&rsquo;ve&nbsp;lived through&nbsp;booms that made fortunes and busts that wiped them out&nbsp;overnight.&nbsp;

What we&rsquo;re facing with copper right now feels different&nbsp;than]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:50:37 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/is-copper-at-the-start-of-the-next-supercycle/</link>

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		<title>America&apos;s Geopolitical Blunders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Is Making China Great Again

In the grand theater of global politics, we&rsquo;re watching a show that is both tragedy and farce. In case you haven&rsquo;t noticed, the world order as we knew it is dead as a dodo. History is unfolding in real time, and the transition to a new order is becoming more messy, chaotic, and perilous by the week.

As someone who&rsquo;s spent years in the trenches of&nbsp;conflict resolution and refugee resettlement,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:44:49 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/americas-geopolitical-blunders/</link>

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		<title>Paper Promises Meet Physical Truth: How Shanghai Stole the Gold Crown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For decades, the world&rsquo;s gold trade revolved around two cities: London and New York. They were the twin pillars of postwar finance&mdash;one steeped in Savile Row tradition and quiet deals, the other all skyscrapers, caffeine, and Wall Street adrenaline. That&rsquo;s exactly why, in my twenties, I packed up and moved to London to open an office for Yorkton Securities, a small Canadian brokerage that financed junior mining deals. Back then,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:00:56 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/paper-promises-meet-physical-truth-how-shanghai-stole-the-gold-crown/</link>

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		<title>Is Bitcoin Really &quot;Digital Gold&quot;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have nothing against Bitcoin. It&rsquo;s a fascinating experiment, a volatile speculative asset and, for some, a lucrative trade. I do have a beef, however, with the Bitcoin maximalists, who&rsquo;ve transformed a digital asset into a dogma and whose self-serving prophecies threaten to burn the unsophisticated investor.

It all started back in 2021 when I challenged Michael Saylor to a debate. The founder of MicroStrategy (now Strategy), a Bitcoin treasury company,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:01:11 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/is-bitcoin-really-digital-gold/</link>

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		<title>China Loves Silver: Déjà Vu All Over Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[History, as they say, doesn&rsquo;t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. And right now, the precious metals market is hearing a familiar, resonant rhyme from the East&mdash;one that echoes with the weight of silver bullion and the resolve of a nation determined never to be humiliated again.

Let&rsquo;s rewind. From the mid-1500s to the early 1800s, China wasn&rsquo;t just a participant in the global economy; it was the global economy. For nearly three centuries,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:38:32 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/china-loves-silver-deja-vu-all-over-again/</link>

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		<title>Indulging in pasta in Italy uncovers how politics affect our waistlines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto Star&nbsp;on September 18, 2024&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

As an Italian, my love for Italian food runs deep.

I even make&nbsp;my own olive oil&nbsp;in Orvieto, Italy, and every time I travel there, the first thing I do is enjoy a plate of local pasta. I find myself eating more pasta in Italy than I do in Canada&nbsp;&mdash; it just tastes better!

Despite these indulgences, I never seem to return home with extra pounds around my waistline.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:29:24 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/indulging-in-pasta-in-italy-uncovers-how-politics-affect-our-waistlines/</link>

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		<title>Tin soldiers and AI’s coming: The horrifying prospect of algorithms ruling the future of warfare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto Star&nbsp;on August 28, 2024&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

With few exceptions, most soldiers do not wish for death on the battlefield.

While some warrior cultures, like the Norse, revered dying in battle as an honourable end, and some jihadists today believe in heavenly rewards for martyrs, these are outliers. The reality is that the prospect of being shot or blown to pieces is terrifying,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2024 17:53:07 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/tin-soldiers-and-ais-coming-the-horrifying-prospect-of-algorithms-ruling-the-future-of-warfare/</link>

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		<title>Censored and silenced: Why the mainstream media’s selective coverage of the U.S. election is wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto Star&nbsp;on July 10, 2024&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&ldquo;Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.&rdquo;

&mdash; George Orwell&nbsp;

Election season in the U.S.&nbsp;exemplifies how far the mainstream media has strayed from its mandate to inform and educate.

Like him or not, Robert Kennedy Jr.&rsquo;s exclusion&nbsp;from CNN&rsquo;s recent&nbsp;presidential debate,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2024 18:19:13 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/censored-and-silenced-why-the-mainstream-medias-selective-coverage-of-the-u.s-election-is-wrong/</link>

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		<title>Why the U.S. is heading for hyperinflation — and what will happen when it arrives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto Star&nbsp;on June 4, 2024&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

In politics it is necessary either to betray one&rsquo;s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

In the opinion piece I wrote last week, I warned of a looming financial crisis&nbsp;in the U.S. (and other Western nations) fuelled by spiralling debt,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:02:25 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/why-the-u.s-is-heading-for-hyperinflation-and-what-will-happen-when-it-arrives/</link>

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		<title>Fiscal Armageddon looms and no one in power wants to talk about it. Here’s why you should be afraid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto Star&nbsp;on May 28, 2024&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

For the better part of two decades, a small group of us fiscally prudent types have been relegated to the wilderness for having the temerity to sound the alarm.

Our warnings were bordering on heresy to many on Wall Street and in DC. But lately, more and more voices are joining the chorus that we are heading headlong toward a fiscal and monetary cliff.

When the day of&nbsp;reckoning]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2024 18:00:08 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/fiscal-armageddon-looms-and-no-one-in-power-wants-to-talk-about-it-heres-why-you-should-be-afraid/</link>

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		<title>The dangers of rewriting history in the name of ‘Glorious Leaders’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto Star&nbsp;on April 23, 2024&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&nbsp;

&ldquo;Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren&rsquo;t!&rdquo;

Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1979 &ndash; 1990

&nbsp;

It is a truism that history is written by the victors. One could also argue that it&rsquo;s often rewritten as a kind of a refresher course when the truth becomes stale or the narrative needs tweaking,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:33:47 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/the-dangers-of-rewriting-history-in-the-name-of-glorious-leaders/</link>

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		<title>Do you know where your pension money is invested? It&apos;s largely not Canada — and that’s a problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in The Toronto Star&nbsp;on March 12, 2024 as contributing columnist&nbsp;

&nbsp;

If you don&rsquo;t believe in yourself nobody else will.&rdquo; &mdash;&nbsp;Kobe Bryant

Is Canada inherently unappealing to investors, leading our own pension funds to allocate only a minimal portion of their investments in our own country? Or have our institutions just become lazy, not bothering to seek out opportunities, finding it less effort to invest in index funds and long-]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:05:54 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title>Canadian pension funds must invest more in the domestic resource sector</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in The Globe and Mail&nbsp;on February 5, 2024 by Frank Giustra and Pierre Lassonde&nbsp;

The global race to secure critical minerals for our green future is on, and sadly, Canada is very much at risk of losing the plot.

In the past 20 years Canada has lost almost all of its mining giants, including Inco, Alcan, Falconbridge and Noranda, to multinationals &ndash; and along with them the head office and research and development talent pool. Inco, for example,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:14:40 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>Battleground Africa: In a world thirsting for its critical minerals, respect is the new currency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on January 31, 2024&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&ldquo;The new scramble for resources on the continent offers an opportunity for Africa to reset its relations with more powerful external actors. Africa&rsquo;s wealth of critical minerals will be essential to help the world achieve its energy transition. In return,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 18:30:08 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/battleground-africa-in-a-world-thirsting-for-its-critical-minerals-respect-is-the-new-currency/</link>

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		<title>My Christmas wish list for the world … maybe Santa can save us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on December 19, 2023&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&ldquo;Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.&rdquo;

&mdash; President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953, &ldquo;Chance for Peace&rdquo;

Never in my lifetime have I seen the world in such a sorry state; fragile, dysfunctional,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:33:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>American elites are living in a delusional universe. Here’s why the next crisis will make the 2008 recession look like a garden party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on October 31, 2023&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

I recently stumbled upon&nbsp;an article&nbsp;I wrote exactly 20 years ago. It was only the second piece I had ever written, and at the time I had no experience in the art of writing. Reading it 20 years later makes me cringe at the grammar and the overuse of too many clever metaphors. However, the point I was making still applies,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 18:52:50 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/american-elites-are-living-in-a-delusional-universe-heres-why-the-next-crisis-will-make-the-2008-recession-look-like-a-garden/</link>

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		<title>The dirty truth about why we need mining if we want a cleaner world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on October 31, 2023&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

The mining industry has had its share of abuse over the past few decades. And lately it feels like the world &mdash; especially the younger generation &mdash; has been convinced that we can all do without it.

I&rsquo;ve heard it all; mining is dirty, it employs child labour, destroys the forests, et cetera.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2023 19:55:32 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/the-dirty-truth-about-why-we-need-mining-if-we-want-a-cleaner-world/</link>

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		<title>World economies at war: How a shift to deglobalization will cost you in your wallet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on September 12, 2023&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&ldquo;Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.&rdquo; -&nbsp;Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General and Nobel Peace Prize winner

There has been a general consensus for at least the last 30 years that, whether we like it or not,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2023 18:29:34 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/world-economies-at-war-how-a-shift-to-deglobalization-will-cost-you-in-your-wallet/</link>

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		<title>Why money isn’t really money any more — and what you need to do with yours to keep it safe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on August 8, 2023&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

Money ain&rsquo;t what it used to be.

I find most people don&rsquo;t know what money actually is, how it works and who actually owns it. That ignorance could prove to be bad news for your wallet.

Historically, it has been a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value.

As a medium of exchange, it allows us to buy and sell stuff.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:59:56 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/why-money-isnt-really-money-any-more-and-what-you-need-to-do-with-yours-to-keep-it-safe/</link>

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		<title>In our fight against climate change, nuclear is emerging as a surprisingly popular carbon-zero fuel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on July 11,&nbsp;2023&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

Until recently, ramping up nuclear energy production as a way of achieving net-zero carbon-emission goals would have been met with antipathy. But opinions are quickly changing.

Charles Oppenheimer, the grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist in charge of the Manhattan Project&rsquo;s Los Alamos Laboratory that created the atomic bomb (a creation he later regretted),]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:46:43 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/in-our-fight-against-climate-change-nuclear-is-emerging-as-a-surprisingly-popular-carbon-zero-fuel/</link>

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		<title>The problem with buybacks: Let’s take a closer look at who profits — and who doesn’t — when companies buy their own shares</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on May 30,&nbsp;2023&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&ldquo;When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: &lsquo;Whose?&lsquo;&rdquo;
&mdash; Don Marquis, American humorist, journalist and author

When famed investor Warren Buffett recently said, &ldquo;when you are told that all repurchases are harmful to shareholders or to the country, or particularly beneficial to CEOs, you are listening to either an economic illiterate or a silver-]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2023 17:09:16 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/the-problem-with-buybacks-lets-take-a-closer-look-at-who-profits-and-who-doesnt-when-companies-buy-their-own-shares/</link>

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		<title>De-dollarization: Not a matter of if, but when</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in Quincy Institute&#039;s Responsible Statecraft&nbsp;on May 3, 2023

The United States may have a powerful military, but its true strength lies in the value and status of its currency.&nbsp;

With the U.S. dollar seen and accepted as the world reserve currency, America has the privilege to control the global financial system, run federal deficits without having to worry about consequences,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2023 17:01:40 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/de-dollarization-not-a-matter-of-if-but-when/</link>

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		<title>Are we really as divided as we think? How dark forces are attempting to alienate us from our neighbours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on April 25, 2023&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not bad. I&rsquo;m just drawn that way.&rdquo;&nbsp;&mdash; Jessica Rabbit, &ldquo;Who Framed Roger Rabbit&rdquo;

How much of human behaviour is subconscious, seemingly illogical or counter intuitive? The answer is, a lot!

My daughter, who is studying cognitive neuroscience at university, has been regaling me lately with facts about how the human brain actually works.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2023 19:31:05 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/are-we-really-as-divided-as-we-think-how-dark-forces-are-attempting-to-alienate-us-from-our-neighbours/</link>

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		<title>Blame for U.S. banking crisis can be pinned on a decades-long reckless monetary policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on March 28, 2023&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;
&nbsp;

&ldquo;It&rsquo;s d&eacute;j&agrave; vu all over again!&rdquo;
&mdash; Yogi Berra

To raise or not to raise?

That was the question at the U.S. Federal Reserve&rsquo;s March 22 policy meeting. And whether it was nobler in their minds to raise interest rates a quarter point and suffer a worsening banking crisis or to pause and admit the fight to contain inflation was effectively lost.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2023 16:57:26 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/blame-for-u.s-banking-crisis-can-be-pinned-on-a-decades-long-reckless-monetary-policy/</link>

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		<title>How credit card companies are fuelling your debt bondage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on March 1, 2023&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&nbsp;

&ldquo;The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;Proverbs 22:7

Thankfully, we live in an age where lenders can&rsquo;t demand a literal pound of flesh if you default on a loan &mdash; but sometimes it sure feels like they can.

With interest rates spiking and credit card debt rising (interest charges can go as high as 36% for those with poor credit),]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2023 18:27:06 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/how-credit-card-companies-are-fuelling-your-debt-bondage/</link>

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		<title>An Interview with Chat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In just a few months the question-and-answer chatbot ChatGPT (Chat) has become very popular.&nbsp; With Chat averaging about 100 million users per day, it seems everyone&rsquo;s talking about it. My friends are sending me notes pointing out examples of Chat&rsquo;s impressive capabilities, so I logged onto the webpage to see what all the fuss was about. After a few trial questions, I decided it might be fun to interview Chat to see how it thinks about itself.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2023 18:37:24 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/an-interview-with-chat/</link>

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		<title>There’s a decrepit supertanker off the coast of Yemen — it’s another Exxon Valdez disaster just waiting to happen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on January 31, 2023&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

In an era of bad news headlines, when we&rsquo;re oversaturated with dismal news on wars, inflation, and an endless barrage of negativity, forgive me for piling onto the heap as I share one additional crisis you might not have heard much about.

It involves the war-torn nation of Yemen,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2023 21:15:38 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/theres-a-decrepit-supertanker-off-the-coast-of-yemen-its-another-exxon-valdez-disaster-just-waiting-to-happen/</link>

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		<title>There is no better day than Christmas to pause and reflect and hope for humanity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in The Toronto Star on December 20, 2022 as a contributing columnist.

&ldquo;We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love &hellip; and then we return home.&rdquo;

&mdash; Aboriginal proverb quoted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2011

We are all familiar with the meaning of Christmas. It is a time for compassion and kindness when we endeavour to spread peace towards our fellow humans.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 19:17:27 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/there-is-no-better-day-than-christmas-to-pause-and-reflect-and-hope-for-humanity/</link>

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		<title>The central bank of almost every country in the world owns gold — except Canada. Here’s why that’s a mistake.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in The Toronto Star on November 11, 2022 as a contributing columnist.

Gold is money, full stop. It&rsquo;s not a shiny pet rock, as the crypto crowd might want to believe. And it&rsquo;s not some antique instrument that no longer serves a purpose in this new digital world. It has been used as money for thousands of years and while paper currencies have all come and gone (mostly to zero), gold has always retained its value.

For that reason,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:54:58 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/the-central-bank-of-almost-every-country-in-the-world-owns-gold-except-canada-heres-why-thats-a-mistake/</link>

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		<title>The European energy crisis: A self-inflicted wound</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on October 18, 2022&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&ldquo;Winter is coming, we know what&rsquo;s coming with it.&rdquo; -&nbsp;Jon Snow, Game of Thrones

Freeze or starve. That is the unimaginable choice many Europeans might face this winter. Sanctions meant to punish Russia for its unprovoked war in Ukraine are inflicting equal, if not more severe pain on Europe. Energy costs are one of the key drivers to overall inflation,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2022 18:28:06 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/the-european-energy-crisis-a-self-inflicted-wound/</link>

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		<title>Harvest Time in Orvieto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s the most wonderful time of the year. And I don&rsquo;t mean with the kids jingle belling. I&rsquo;m referring to the annual olive oil harvest at our Domenica Fiore olive oil estate in Orvieto, Italy. Ask anyone who knows me, I get teenaged girl giddy in the run up to this trip. I was there recently for our famous night harvest. We&rsquo;ve been doing this event for a few years, and it never disappoints.

As in the past, we invited a few friends to celebrate with us.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:21:21 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/harvest-time-in-orvieto/</link>

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		<title>‘One wonders if America is a nation in decline.’ Can it still be fixed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on September 7, 2022&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;
&nbsp;

&ldquo;A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.&rdquo;

-Ariel Durant
&nbsp;

I am finding it increasingly difficult to scroll through most U.S. news platforms without feeling thoroughly exhausted. The political divide is deepening and the vitriol in the rhetoric is reaching toxic levels. Almost everyone,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2022 20:23:21 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/one-wonders-if-america-is-a-nation-in-decline-can-it-still-be-fixed/</link>

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		<title>If we could unify quantum mechanics with general relativity, it would change everything. That’s the modest goal of the newly-launched Quantum Gravity Institute</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on July 19, 2022&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&nbsp;

Launching the&nbsp;Quantum Gravity Institute&nbsp;in Vancouver

&ldquo;When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter. If (quantum theory) is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.&rdquo;

Albert Einstein

I barely took any science classes in high school,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2022 18:46:21 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/if-we-could-unify-quantum-mechanics-with-general-relativity-it-would-change-everything/</link>

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		<title>Why the U.S. dollar will be replaced as the dominant global currency — sooner than you think</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on Junly 15, 2022&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&nbsp;

Not long after the first gunfire erupted at the onset of Russia&rsquo;s invasion of Ukraine, Russia fired another multi-pronged shot, straight across NATO&rsquo;s financial bow.

First, and as a reaction to the crippling sanctions and its exclusion from the global SWIFT money transfer system imposed by the West,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2022 17:53:45 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/why-the-u.s-dollar-will-be-replaced-as-the-dominant-global-currency-sooner-than-you-think/</link>

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		<title>Why women are the solution to poverty in the developing world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on June 14, 2022&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&nbsp;

I have always felt women should run the world.

Men have done such a dismal job of it over the centuries. Testosterone and ego make a powerful but destructive cocktail that induces men to make bad decisions on a regular basis. Women, on the other hand are, well, less reckless, and more sensible. When is the last time in recent history that a female leader started a war? U.K.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2022 22:58:39 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/why-women-are-the-solution-to-poverty-in-the-developing-world/</link>

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		<title>A philanthropist’s solution to helping economic refugees from the Northern Triangle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on June 7, 2022&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&nbsp;

Do you ever wonder why migrants embark on what are often perilous journeys, leaving everything behind, to an uncertain future in the U.S. or other developed countries?

We hear a lot about conflict refugees escaping wars from the likes of Syria, Afghanistan or more recently, Ukraine. Their primary objective is more than clear: Staying alive. But we also hear about so-]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2022 16:38:20 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/a-philanthropists-solution-to-helping-economic-refugees-from-the-northern-triangle/</link>

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		<title>The international aid system is in need of reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on June 1, 2022&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&nbsp;

While on a trip to Haiti last week I read a shocking headline, &ldquo;Ukraine invasion could cause a global food crisis, UN warns.&rdquo;

Secretary general Ant&oacute;nio Guterres warned that the invasion, combined with the effects of climate change along with the pandemic &ldquo;threatens to tip tens of millions of people over the edge into food insecurity followed by malnutrition,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2022 20:10:22 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/the-international-aid-system-is-in-need-of-reform/</link>

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		<title>As AI and robotics advance, are we ready for a post-work world?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on May 10, 2022&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&nbsp;

&ldquo;The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence Bill of Rights? What will that consist of? And who will get to decide that?&rdquo;

&mdash; Gray Scott, futurist, philosopher and artist

I&rsquo;m old enough to remember television shows from the &rsquo;60s that featured futuristic concepts such as artificial intelligence (AI) and robot servants.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2022 16:38:09 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/as-ai-and-robotics-advance-are-we-ready-for-a-post-work-world/</link>

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		<title>The financial media has become a Wild West of misinformation — why aren’t there laws to rein it in?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on April 5, 2022&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&nbsp;

Fake news! Everyone is complaining about it. No matter if you are politically left or right leaning, we&rsquo;ve all expressed our dissatisfaction with news stories relating to topics centred around politics, climate change or the pandemic. We tend to complain loudly when we see &ldquo;fake news&rdquo; on those topics.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2022 15:54:40 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/the-financial-media-has-become-a-wild-west-of-misinformation-why-arent-there-laws-to-rein-it-in/</link>

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		<title>Selective empathy: An observation on classes of refugees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in Philanthropy News Digest on March 25, 2022

&nbsp;

&ldquo;These are people who are Europeans, so we and all other countries are ready to welcome them. In other words, this is not the refugee wave that we are used to, where we don&rsquo;t know what to do, people with an uncertain past&mdash;are they terrorists?&rdquo;

These are the words spoken by Bulgaria&rsquo;s prime minister, Kiril Petkov,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:47:36 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/selective-empathy-an-observation-on-classes-of-refugees/</link>

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		<title>The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: A Global Chess Match</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;You may well have the better claim, but I have the larger army.&rdquo; 

&mdash;Renly Baratheon, Game of Thrones

Russia&rsquo;s war with Ukraine is the first conflict since the end of the Cold War to test the limits of the balance of power among the world&rsquo;s three largest military powers.&nbsp; By now, most of us are aware what Russia is trying to achieve; how the US and NATO are responding and how China is trying to balance its own ambitions and its relationship with Russia,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2022 17:36:58 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-a-global-chess-match/</link>

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		<title>As Russia’s attack on Ukraine intensifies, small rays of light shine on the trillion-dollar business of global political corruption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on March 8, 2022&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&nbsp;

&ldquo;Corruption is paid by the poor.&rdquo;

&mdash; Pope Francis

Political corruption has been around since the beginnings of civilization. Greek historian Herodotus notes the Alcmaeonid family bribed the Oracle of Delphi priestesses, one of the most powerful mystical forces of Ancient Greek, which prompted Aristotle to quip that even the Gods can be bribed.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2022 16:41:14 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/as-russias-attack-on-ukraine-intensifies-small-rays-of-light-shine-on-the-trillion-dollar-business-of-global-political/</link>

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		<title>Wake up and smell the coffee: The agricultural commodity market is broken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published on Fortune.com on February 17, 2022

&nbsp;

The&nbsp;coffee crisis&nbsp;brewing in Central America is not just the result of climate change accelerating the spread of crop disease, but also the perpetual reliance on individual commodities to prop up global markets and offer the only solution to poverty for millions of smallholders worldwide.

Large-]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 17:55:41 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/wake-up-and-smell-the-coffee-the-agricultural-commodity-market-is-broken/</link>

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		<title>Not sure where to invest? There are minefields at every turn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on February 2, 2022&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&nbsp;

&ldquo;In the beginning of a stock market boom it is ever the &lsquo;dear public,&rsquo; the fleecy lambs, the most guileless victims, who make the most money. They really do not know when to stop winning, and so in the end they lose profit and principal.&rdquo; &mdash;&nbsp;Edwin Lef&egrave;vre

A crystal ball would come in handy at this moment in time.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:17:06 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/not-sure-where-to-invest-there-are-minefields-at-every-turn/</link>

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		<title>Forever Young: Finding ways to live longer and healthier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;In the end, it&rsquo;s not the years in your life that count. It&rsquo;s the life in your years.&rdquo;

&ndash; Abraham Lincoln

Who doesn&rsquo;t want to live longer? As we age and see the end of the runway coming, it can seem like our only option is to grumble and moan that it all happened too fast. Aging is an inevitable part of life. I will confess that when I turned 60, I didn&rsquo;t like it one bit. I worked hard to enter my 61st year being in the best physical shape possible,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2022 17:27:51 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>Is the U.S. purposely under-reporting inflation? It’s hard not to wonder when you look at how it’s calculated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on January 11, 2022&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&nbsp;

&ldquo;If you can&rsquo;t convince them, confuse them.&rdquo;&nbsp;- Harry S. Truman

We are living in a world where people seem to relish in the consumption of misinformation. That is, different versions of reality and alternative facts. Some of the stuff people believe is beyond looney. For instance,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2022 19:36:01 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/is-the-u.s-purposely-under-reporting-inflation-its-hard-not-to-wonder-when-you-look-at-how-its-calculated/</link>

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		<title>The Fed’s big lie that much of the world has bought into</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on December 28, 2021&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&nbsp;

&ldquo;The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.&rdquo; &mdash;&nbsp;Voltaire

We are living in an era that is undeniably confusing, especially to veteran investors. By veteran, I mean someone who has been around long enough to have witnessed a number of market cycles,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2022 19:33:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>The Cost of Peace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in Philanthropy News Digest&nbsp;on December 23, 2021

&nbsp;

War is expensive. Bloody and expensive. According to the&nbsp;Institute for Economics and Peace, conflict violence cost the world&nbsp;$519 billion&nbsp;in economic activity in 2019 alone. Add to that the human cost &mdash; some seventy-six thousand lives lost that same year and millions more fleeing their homes,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:05:58 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>Hunger and migration are interconnected</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published on statesman.com&nbsp;

&nbsp;

At the same time that President Biden&nbsp;announced making a $10 billion commitment&nbsp;to tackle hunger and malnutrition, the&nbsp;administration was expelling more than&nbsp;12,000 migrants&nbsp;who had converged, hungry and desperate, in Del Rio.

As the migration crisis shows, tackling hunger sustainably is more complex than just distributing&nbsp;food parcels.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2021 21:04:13 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/hunger-and-migration-are-interconnected/</link>

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		<title>Helping refugees resettle in Canada is a winning proposition for all</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on November 23, 2021&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&nbsp;

As Canada prepares to welcome tens of thousands of Afghan refugees, I am struck by the opportunity this offers our country &mdash; an opportunity to not only help those who need it, but also to enrich our communities and grow our economy.

Whenever we think about refugees, most of us conjure up depressing images. We picture endless lines of people escaping conflict on foot,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2021 19:21:03 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/helping-refugees-resettle-in-canada-is-a-winning-proposition-for-all/</link>

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		<title>The simple case for a flat tax system</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on October 26, 2021&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&nbsp;

Benjamin Franklin said there are two certainties in life: death and taxes. But there are actually three: death, taxes and tax avoidance.

&ldquo;Only fools pay,&rdquo; I recall someone telling me on one of my first trips to Italy many years go. He was expressing the nation&rsquo;s cultural view about Italians&rsquo; unwillingness to pay income taxes.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2021 20:06:43 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/the-simple-case-for-a-flat-tax-system/</link>

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		<title>We’re in a massive market bubble. When it pops a lot of investors will get wiped out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on October 12, 2021&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&nbsp;

&ldquo;Stock market bubbles don&rsquo;t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.&rdquo; &mdash; George Soros

Here I go again, sounding like a broken record. A couple months ago, I wrote an&nbsp;article&nbsp;noting that we are likely in the final act of the biggest stock market bubble in history. But given there is so much at stake,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2021 17:38:27 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/were-in-a-massive-market-bubble-when-it-pops-a-lot-of-investors-will-get-wiped-out/</link>

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		<title>America’s Oldest Continuously Operating Victory Garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published on&nbsp;ModernFarmer.org

&nbsp;

&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t it always seem to go
That you don&rsquo;t know what you got &rsquo;til it&rsquo;s gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.&rdquo;&mdash;Joni Mitchell

Throughout my life, I have found that maintaining a positive outlook has helped me achieve many good things. At the risk of sounding like a self-help book author, I will only say that,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2021 19:59:05 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/americas-oldest-continuously-operating-victory-garden/</link>

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		<title>Should we invest in China or not?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on September 28, 2021&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&nbsp;

Is BlackRock&rsquo;s entry into China a &ldquo;blunder&rdquo; as George Soros claimed in a recent&nbsp;op-ed? Or are critics misconstruing China&rsquo;s recent regulatory crackdown, as Ray Dalio would like us to believe?

Both Soros and Dalio are highly respected and very successful global macro investors. BlackRock,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2021 17:07:02 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/should-we-invest-in-china-or-not/</link>

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		<title>How Olive Oil Can Make You Rich</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have recently returned from the launch of harvest season at my beloved Domenica Fiore olive estate in Orvieto, Italy.&nbsp; People who know me understand that this is my favourite time of year.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&rsquo;s when those of us involved in this passion project come together to celebrate the first pressing; to share a delicious meal and raise a glass to Mother Nature in anticipation of the bounty to come. &nbsp;As far as I&rsquo;m concerned,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2021 22:35:59 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/how-olive-oil-can-make-you-rich/</link>

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		<title>Impact investing does social good while making money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on September 14, 2021&nbsp;as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&nbsp;

&ldquo;No one has ever become poor by giving.&rdquo; &mdash; Anne Frank

Who wouldn&rsquo;t want to make money in an investment that also delivers good things? You would have to be heartless to intentionally invest exclusively in businesses that do damage to society or the planet &mdash; such as tobacco, fossil fuels or weapons manufacturers. Of course, in the real world,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2021 19:56:10 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/impact-investing-does-social-good-while-making-money/</link>

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		<title>Without long-term investment, food aid for Haiti risks being a Band-Aid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in PND by Candid&nbsp;on September 9, 2021&nbsp;

&nbsp;

The aftershocks of the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on August 14 are not only being felt by those nearest the epicenter.

The latest disaster not only has left six hundred and fifty thousand people needing immediate assistance but also has exposed the country&#039;s more than one&nbsp;million farming families, who depend on a precarious rural economy.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2021 16:55:15 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/without-long-term-investment-food-aid-for-haiti-risks-being-a-band-aid/</link>

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		<title>The central banks have set the stage for a persistent and ugly inflationary future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in&nbsp;The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on August 31, 2021 as&nbsp;contributing columnist&nbsp;

&nbsp;

Nobody knows nothing.&rdquo; &mdash; William Goldman

It&rsquo;s likely the most important and hotly debated subject in today&rsquo;s financial markets: Are we entering an inflationary or deflationary era?

Which scenario you subscribe to will make an enormous difference in how you invest your money. Simply put, if you believe in high inflation, you would put your money in hard assets,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2021 20:10:20 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/the-central-banks-have-set-the-stage-for-a-persistent-and-ugly-inflationary-future/</link>

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		<title>Farming is inherently challenging. Is climate change the one obstacle farmers cannot overcome?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in The Toronto&nbsp;Star&nbsp;on August 17, 2021 as contributing columnist&nbsp;

&nbsp;

&ldquo;The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn&rsquo;t still be a farmer.&rdquo; &mdash; Will Rogers

Extreme weather conditions have become so frequent and so severe in regions throughout the world, that I sincerely doubt there are many climate-change deniers in the farming industry. A lot of farmers are thoroughly exasperated and struggling to adapt to what may be the new normal.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2021 22:10:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/farming-is-inherently-challenging-is-climate-change-the-one-obstacle-farmers-cannot-overcome/</link>

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		<title>Do We Live in the First and Only Universe?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;There is a theory which states that&nbsp;if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre&nbsp;and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.&rdquo; &nbsp;- Douglas Adams&nbsp;

How do you go from nothingness to somethingness? I have always struggled with that question. So have countless physicists and cosmologists in the past 100 years.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2021 16:09:08 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/do-we-live-in-the-first-and-only-universe/</link>

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		<title>Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In light of recent events in Haiti, I&rsquo;m proud to share an article written by our Haiti-based Acceso team members Patrick Dorzin and Sergeline Ren&eacute; who lead our agribusiness work in Haiti. We launched Acceso Haiti in 2014 with the goal of improving the livelihoods of Haitian smallholder farmers&nbsp;through market&nbsp;connections and improved, sustainable agriculture techniques.&nbsp;To date, Acceso Haiti has&nbsp;supported +7,400 farmers through training,&nbsp;inputs,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 16:35:16 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title>The Never-Ending War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was 10 years old when the 1967 Six-Day war broke out between Israel and its Arab neighbours. &nbsp;I recall watching Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News reporting on this major event. &nbsp;With the (sometimes helpful) simulcast commentary from my father that accompanied every broadcast, I received my first education on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. &nbsp;Since then it&rsquo;s been an issue that I have followed closely throughout my life.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2021 18:21:45 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/the-never-ending-war/</link>

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		<title>The Perks of Being a Dinosaur</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;What has been will be again,&nbsp;
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.&rdquo;

Ecclesiastes 1:9&nbsp;

I have been called a lot of names lately on Twitter. Some are even laced with profanities (which I block immediately.) But for the most part, I chuckle and let it go. It all started when I decided to take on Michael Saylor in a debate over Bitcoin versus gold. Saylor is one of the biggest proponents of Bitcoin out there - if not the biggest.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2021 20:09:21 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/the-perks-of-being-a-dinosaur/</link>

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		<title>40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Book Review
40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World
by Howard G. Buffett&nbsp;

We used to have a saying when I was in my 30s: &nbsp;&ldquo;Only 30 summers left before we&rsquo;re 60.&rdquo; &nbsp;It was meant to underscore both that life is short as well as the importance of making the most of the time we have while we&rsquo;re young. &nbsp;Similarly, in the book &ldquo;40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World&rdquo;, Howard G.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2021 18:47:01 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/40-chances-finding-hope-in-a-hungry-world/</link>

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		<title>The Great Debate: Bitcoin vs Gold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s no secret that for many years I have been a strong advocate for owning gold in one&rsquo;s portfolio. Gold has stood the test of time as protection against inflation, the devaluation of currencies and as a hedge against downturns in equities. Historical data proves it every time. I call it insurance against bad things that inevitably happen time and again throughout history. It has been standard portfolio management practice to always own 5-]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2021 22:42:32 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/the-great-debate-bitcoin-vs-gold/</link>

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		<title>The Flavor Bible Gains a New Disciple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I own dozens of cookbooks about every cuisine you can possibly imagine. So, when a friend suggested one I hadn&rsquo;t heard of, called The Flavor Bible, my first reaction was one of indifference.&nbsp;

But I can now say The Flavor (that&rsquo;s Flavour for our Canadian readers) Bible, by authors Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg, is a must have in every kitchen. It&rsquo;s not actually a cookbook: It&rsquo;s more of a book that will educate you about how flavors work and what food categories]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:02:02 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/the-flavor-bible-gains-a-new-disciple/</link>

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		<title>Join me. Join the movement.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;m delighted to share with you that, in anticipation of the coming growing season, and in the hopeful expectation that soon we will all be able to live a less locked down life, we are launching a new phase of the Million Gardens Movement. Modern Farmer is partnering with food entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Big Green, Kimbal Musk. Big Green is an amazing charity that improves the health of students and communities by creating experiential learning and garden-]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:12:38 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/join-me-join-the-movement/</link>

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		<title>Opinion: Biden risks same dangerous mistakes as presidents before him</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frank Giustra and Andrew Bacevich. Originally published on&nbsp;Businessinsider.com. Feb 27, 2021.

If the escalating tensions between the United States and China aren&#039;t causing you concern yet, you&#039;ve not been paying attention.

Any conflict between the two superpowers would result in unimaginable devastation &mdash; if not physical, at least economic. And don&#039;t forget: both China and the United States possess nuclear arsenals.

There&#039;s a lot going on right now in our Covid-]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2021 17:39:36 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/biden-risks-same-dangerous-mistakes-as-presidents-before-him/</link>

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		<title>Life Lessons (and other unsolicited advice)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always been loath to give advice. When asked about my secrets to success, my reply is that since I never listened to the advice of others when I was starting out or launching a new idea, why would I then tell people what to do? &nbsp;Truthfully, had I listened to most of the advice that&rsquo;s been thrown my way over the years, I would have never achieved anything. Don&rsquo;t get me wrong.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2021 18:55:33 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/life-lessons-and-other-unsolicited-advice/</link>

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		<title>You Might Be Surprised by What&apos;s in Your Food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Packaged and processed foods are scary.

It&rsquo;s nearly impossible to keep up with which ingredients are safe to eat and which ones cause some kind of harm. The food industry and respective lobby groups spend tens of millions of dollars each year lobbying elected officials, in the hope of shaping dietary policy and guidelines for American consumers. In 2020, food groups spent almost $27 million lobbying Congress.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2021 17:15:48 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/you-might-be-surprised-by-whats-in-your-food/</link>

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		<title>Quarantine Recipes: Domenica&apos;s Biscotti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was growing up, my childhood home was full of mouthwatering smells wafting through the halls, luring us like a siren song to my mom&rsquo;s kitchen.&nbsp;

There, you could count on something yummy being cooked up seven days a week. My mother, Domenica, practically lived in her kitchen. And I honestly don&rsquo;t know how she did it&mdash;being on her feet all day long,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:32:16 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/quarantine-recipes-domenicas-biscotti/</link>

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		<title>TV in the Time of Corona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2020 will go down as a truly dismal year that not only brought us a global pandemic and murder hornets, but also an insufferable election campaign. The lockdown meant no travel, which lead me to one of the only good things I might say about 2020. It gave me the opportunity to explore a variety of exceptional TV programming and through it all, relish in some pure escapism. For a few hours every night,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2020 17:04:50 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/tv-in-the-time-of-corona/</link>

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		<title>Tell to Win</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A book review (and one doozie of a story)

How can one of the most horrible experiences in your life turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to you? I have such a story.&nbsp;

It was the late 1990&rsquo;s and I was fighting for my life, trying to keep my nascent film company, Lionsgate Entertainment from going under. I had launched the company in 1997, seemingly out of nowhere,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2020 10:20:56 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>A Case For Peace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbour &mdash; it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.&ldquo; &mdash; John F. Kennedy

&ldquo;If you want peace, you don&rsquo;t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies&ldquo;. &mdash; Desmond Tutu

We have come to believe that war is inevitable, like death, taxes and the evening news.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2020 11:05:24 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/a-case-for-peace/</link>

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		<title>Is Our Reality Someone Else’s Simulation?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative from consciousness.&ldquo;&nbsp;- Max Planck&nbsp;
&nbsp;&ldquo;I must confess that I was unable to find an explanation for the atomistic character of nature. One must find a way to avoid the space-time continuum altogether, though I haven&rsquo;t the slightest idea what kind of elementary concept could be used in such a theory.&ldquo; -&nbsp;Albert Einstein, 1954.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2020 19:14:54 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title>For the Love of Olive Oil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven.
-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Thomas Jefferson
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Anyone who knows me can attest to how obsessed I am with olive oil. I talk about it almost as much as I consume it. I am a shameless promoter when it comes to my company Domenica Fiore, which produces some of the finest olive oils in the world. I have been known to mention my oil in interviews about such unrelated topics as geopolitics and financial markets.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2020 09:36:32 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title>Night harvest at Domenica Fiore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this last year and we are back again for our 2020 night harvest that we will be broadcasting LIVE at @domenica_fiore&#039;s&nbsp;Instagram&nbsp;on October 8, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. PT/8:00 p.m. CET.

It&rsquo;s my favourite day of the year, right up there with Christmas. The first day (or in our case night) of harvest at our Domenica Fiore olive oil estate in Orvieto, Italy. I look forward to this time for a slew of reasons,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2020 12:40:34 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title>Why Do French and Italian Tomatoes Taste So Damn Good?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The main reason I love to travel to France and Italy is for food, specifically the tomatoes you find in these countries.&nbsp;

The combination of tomatoes and olive oil is my favorite breakfast&mdash;just sliced tomato on toast with a pinch of salt and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. It&rsquo;s what I ate every single morning on a recent two-week trip to France and Italy.&nbsp;

I would do the same more often at home in North America, but it&rsquo;s not the same experience.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2020 10:28:10 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title>Why Liberalism Failed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Book Review: &ldquo;Why Liberalism Failed&rdquo;
By Patrick Deenan
&nbsp;
Recently I picked up a copy of Patrick Deenan&rsquo;s 2018 book, &ldquo;Why Liberalism Failed&rdquo;. &nbsp;In it he refers to Niccol&ograve; Machiavelli&rsquo;s political philosophies and as an avid reader of Machiavelli myself, I was curious about Deenan&rsquo;s argument. &nbsp;
&nbsp;
The way Machiavelli summed up the failure of classical and Christian political thought that preceded him pretty much sums up the conclusion I reached after reading]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2020 12:22:58 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/book-review-why-liberalism-failed/</link>

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		<title>My Vegan Experiment: Six Months With No Fish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I always used to picture vegans as frail, pasty people who wore flowers in their hair and meditated a lot.

My perception changed when I watched a documentary by filmmaker Louie Psihoyos called The Game Changers last December. The film makes the case that vegan diets are superior to omnivorous ones because they promote heart health, decrease inflammation, lower cancer risk, and most importantly for me, improve your physical performance.&nbsp;

The film has its flaws,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2020 08:46:37 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/my-vegan-experiment/</link>

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		<title>The Fed’s Inescapable Trap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Op-Ed By Frank Giustra

Published in the Vancouver Sun - Jul 13, 2020

&nbsp;

Trust is a fickle thing. It&rsquo;s there until it isn&rsquo;t. This is especially true with paper currencies. Their value is based on trust that the sovereign issuer will act faithfully and responsibly. The standards for a reserve currency are even higher given their status in global trade and finance. Throughout history, there have been many reserve currencies and they have all failed, eventually.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2020 15:11:13 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/the-feds-inescapable-trap/</link>

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		<title>Until the end of time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I believe that&nbsp;every true theorist&nbsp;is a kind of tamed metaphysicist, no matter how pure a &lsquo;positivist&rsquo;&nbsp;he may fancy himself.&rdquo; Albert Einstein&nbsp;

&ldquo;From our lonely corner of the cosmos we have used creativity and imagination to shape words and images and structures and sounds to express our longings and frustrations, our confusions and revelations,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2020 15:46:33 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/until-the-end-of-time/</link>

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		<title>Quarantine Recipes: West African Chicken Curry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing that hasn&rsquo;t changed during the COVID-19 pandemic is the need to eat. Staying home has encouraged some to perfect their culinary skills while others have cracked open cookbooks for the first time.&nbsp;

To provide you with some kitchen inspiration, Modern Farmer is asking top chefs what they&rsquo;ve been cooking while staying isolated. This week, our publisher, Frank Giustra,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2020 10:18:43 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/quarantine-recipes-west-african-chicken-curry/</link>

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		<title>Crisis Group rejects China&apos;s charges against Michael Kovrig</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&rsquo;s decision by China to formally charge our colleague Michael Kovrig is groundless, indefensible, and sadly&nbsp;unsurprising.&nbsp;From the moment Michael was detained and for the ensuing 557 days, this has been a case of political action disguised as a legal one. China&rsquo;s authorities claim without any justification that Michael was stealing state secrets, but nothing in this case is secret: neither Michael&rsquo;s work, which was always fully transparent,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2020 14:16:19 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/crisis-group-rejects-chinas-charges-against-michael-kovrig/</link>

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		<title>Love and Life in the Time of Corona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Life is what happens&nbsp;to&nbsp;you&nbsp;while&nbsp;you&#039;re busy&nbsp;making&nbsp;other&nbsp;plans.&rdquo;
-&nbsp;John Lennon&nbsp;

The 1997&nbsp;essay titled &ldquo;Wear Sunscreen&quot; gives&nbsp;various pieces of humorous, but common-sense advice on how to live a happier life and avoid common frustrations. One of the most truthful passages in the piece speaks to the uselessness of worrying about bad things happening to you, pointing out that worrying doesn&rsquo;t fix anything and most importantly,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2020 11:45:47 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/love-and-life-in-the-time-of-corona/</link>

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		<title>I Yell, But Only My iPad is Listening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The history of speculative bubbles begins roughly with the advent of newspapers.&rdquo; &ndash; Robert Shiller, &ldquo;Irrational Exuberance&rdquo;

When I was a boy, I would watch as my father yelled&nbsp;at the nightly news broadcasts on TV and shake my head. &ldquo;They can&rsquo;t hear you!&rdquo; I would think to myself, but dare not say out loud. Fast forward 50-or-so years later and this morning I caught&nbsp;myself yelling at my iPad while reading two articles. The first headline stated,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2020 12:26:40 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/i-yell-but-only-my-ipad-is-listening/</link>

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		<title>Climate, Conflict and Crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How climate change has fueled conflict between farmers and herders in Africa.

By now, most of us are keenly aware that climate change presents an existential threat to some forms of life on the planet, including us. But public outrage in North America has yet to match the level of danger climate change poses, and this may be due to the fact that our &ldquo;self-extermination&rdquo; is not imminent today,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2020 09:11:32 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/climate-conflict-and-crisis/</link>

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		<title>The US Dollar: The Final Act</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The unthinkable is becoming ever more likely. The end of US dollar dominance and the beginning of some new form of global monetary system will soon be upon us. It was bound to happen at some point.

The story of reserve currencies is long and stretches far back into ancient times. But as modern history shows, the average lifespan of reserve assets is just around 100 years. (Cases in point,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2020 22:03:13 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/the-us-dollar-the-final-act/</link>

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		<title>It&apos;s time for billionaires to stop worrying about their fortunes and start worrying about the world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who wants to be a billionaire? Not me.

I&#039;m lucky to be well off, and I believe in free enterprise. But I have come to the conclusion that capitalism has run amok.

In 2017, the US households in the top 1% of income-earners made more than 25 times what families in the other 99% did, according to a paper from the Economic Policy Institute. This glaring inequality confirmed my determination to devote the rest of my life and greatest part of my wealth to philanthropy.&nbsp;

If]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2020 09:21:15 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/its-time-for-billionaires-to-stop-worrying-about-their-fortunes-and-start-worrying-about-the-world/</link>

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		<title>Feeding the Vulnerable in a Time of Pandemic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the book,&nbsp;Sapiens, historian Yuval Noah Harari says the secret to humans&rsquo; survival as a species is &ldquo;large-scale flexible cooperation.&rdquo; This, he says, has made us &ldquo;masters of the world. But at the same time it has made us dependent for our very survival on vast networks of cooperation.&rdquo; This truth may not always seem apparent. During normal times, money, power, self interest and man-made borders tend to dilute that advantage,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:35:21 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/feeding-the-vulnerable-in-a-time-of-pandemic/</link>

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		<title>Good Night, John Boy…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As some of my readers might remember, there was a&nbsp;1970&rsquo;s TV show called The Walton&rsquo;s. It was a weekly staple during my early teenage years. The show featured the life of a family living in a small Virginia community during the 1930&rsquo;s Depression years. Although the family was poor, it was rich in love, respect and inner strength. It was a show about the importance of holding on to one&#039;s values and morals in a difficult and&nbsp;often negative world.

It may not come as a]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 14:56:17 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/good-night-john-boy/</link>

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		<title>Gold: The Unfortunate Final Refuge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always been amazed by our collective ability to forget history. This applies to everything from politics, to war, to economics. The same things repeat with varying predictable patterns throughout the centuries. As Mark Twain is reputed to have said, &ldquo;History doesn&#039;t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.&rdquo; I have always believed those who read history books are much better prepared for the future.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 09:08:20 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/gold-the-unfortunate-final-refuge/</link>

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		<title>Billionaires Respond to “Who Wants to be a Billionaire ? I Don’t.”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Defensive, uncomfortable, agreeable (with conditions), but mostly supportive. That&rsquo;s how I would describe the responses from my wealthy friends regarding an article I posted a few weeks ago. The piece was meant to provoke thought around the reality of life as a billionaire. As it turns out, I have quite a few friends I would describe as billionaires, so I thought it would be fun to forward the article and see what kind of reaction it would generate.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2020 08:31:31 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/billionaires-respond-to-who-wants-to-be-a-billionaire-i-dont/</link>

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		<title>Lessons from The Prophet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation&rdquo; Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet.
I collect books on almost every topic. One of my favourite books is &ldquo;The Prophet&rdquo;, by Kahlil Gibran. I have a rare first edition copy signed by the author and dated 1923, the year it was published. I have now read it three times including as recently as a few weeks ago and it still moves me much in the same way it did when I first read it.The book is made up of 26 prose poems,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2020 10:44:13 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/lessons-from-the-prophet/</link>

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		<title>Who Wants To Be A Billionaire? I Don&apos;t</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
I Don&#039;t.
Have Flashy Flunkeys Ev&#039;rywhere?
I Don&#039;t.

-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Frank Sinatra &ldquo;High Society&rdquo;

Who wants to be a billionaire? I don&rsquo;t.

Now, had you asked me that question 20 years ago, I might have answered differently. A lot has changed in my life the past two decades. Likewise, a lot has changed in the world.

I started seeing the world differently when I first discovered the joy of giving. I know it sounds cliche,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 09:44:16 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/who-wants-to-be-a-billionaire-i-dont/</link>

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		<title>Nothing New Under the Sun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ecclesiastes 1:9

&ldquo;What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.&rdquo;

I love that quote. I once wrote a song with that title.

These were the words of King Solomon, some 3000 years ago. He was opining on the lives of men as a continuous repetition of the same basic patterns, and for himself searching for a more hopeful way of life.

In the first part of the second millennium,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2020 09:06:17 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>A Christmas Memory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With Christmas around the corner, I thought it would be fun to repost an article I wrote last Christmas. It tells the story of my favourite Christmas memory. I hope you enjoy it.

I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a prosperous and peaceful 2020.

Frank Giustra

https://frankgiustra.com/posts/my-favourite-christmas-memory/]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2019 08:09:37 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>Artificial Intelligence and the Human Journey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&ldquo; ....And there was light.&rdquo; Scroll forward 13.6 billion years and here we are pondering our existence. Conscious beings not exactly sure what our consciousness really is. Will our consciousness and existence evolve with the universe? &nbsp;Are we interconnected with its fate or are we just an accidental temporary blip in this vast expanse of space and time. If you are holding your breath in anticipation this article will provide the answers, feel free to exhale,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2019 10:38:27 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/artificial-intelligence-and-the-human-journey/</link>

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		<title>The Gift of Hope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a recent dreary afternoon I found myself in a classroom facing a semi-circle of a dozen teenaged boys. &nbsp;As I looked into their faces, I was struck by the timing of this encounter. &nbsp;Just 24-hours earlier I had been on my annual trip with my own high school buddies. Ten of us get together once a year and usually go on a fishing trip. I cherish these times.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2019 13:32:54 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/the-gift-of-hope/</link>

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		<title>It&apos;s Not Just Me, It&apos;s Getting Crazier Out There</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!&rdquo; &nbsp;
-Les Miserables&nbsp;
&nbsp;Joker recently hit the big screen and I couldn&rsquo;t wait to see it. While I&rsquo;m not a big fan of the Marvel/DC comic book genre, I&rsquo;m a huge fan of Joaquin Phoenix and consider him one of the top actors in the industry. I was blown away by his portrayal of Arthur Fleck (aka the Joker).&nbsp;

But as I exited the theatre,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2019 09:42:31 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/its-not-just-me-its-getting-crazier-out-there/</link>

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		<title>Night harvest at Domenica Fiore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s my favourite day of the year, right up there with Christmas. The first day (or in our case night) of harvest at our Domenica Fiore olive oil estate in Orvieto, Italy. I look forward to this time for a slew of reasons, including the excitement of seeing and tasting our first press, the picturesque beauty of our land and most of all, feasting on the local food we cook in our kitchen.



Domenica Fiore is named after my late mother and our estate sits on a hillside]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:27:37 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>International Crisis Group: Playing a Leading Role in a World Lacking Leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from a Board of Trustees meeting of the International Crisis Group (ICG) and it was a sobering experience, to say the least. &nbsp;I have been on the board for almost 15 years and it certainly feels like the world order we grew up with is progressively deteriorating.

Our mandate at ICG is pretty straight forward &ndash; work to prevent or end deadly conflict anywhere in the world. It has never been an easy task and it&rsquo;s getting increasingly difficult.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:55:47 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/international-crisis-group-playing-a-leading-role-in-a-world-lacking-leadership/</link>

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		<title>Super AI - Coming Soon To A World Near You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) represents one of the most important turning points in human history and it is squarely upon us. But what comes next will make life as we know it unrecognizable and there will be no turning back. So called super artificial intelligence (super AI), which is magnitudes more intelligent than the human brain, might be achievable in our lifetimes. World renown futurist Ray Kurzweil refers to this as the moment we reach singularity.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2019 08:48:06 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title>Consciousness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As is my habit, I have spent the best part of the year nerding out in my spare time. My current fascination is consciousness and the future of artificial intelligence (AI). Both will have a profound impact, either as an existential threat or as a hugely beneficial enhancement to our species, in the not so distant future. My &ldquo;nerding&rdquo; has included reading several books and articles and watching dozens of lectures on YouTube.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2019 11:06:54 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title>As the World Burns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I sit here and watch with dismay as the Amazon burns, and reflect on some of the other horrifying news of the summer &ndash; Greenland lost 12.5 billion tons on ice in one day; Microplastics discovered in &ldquo;extreme&rdquo; concentrations in the North Atlantic; Nuclear monitoring stations went mysteriously quiet after Russian missile facility explosion - I wonder,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2019 15:54:25 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title>How To Make A Healthy, Delicious Creamy Soup Without Cream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cooking is an art and like any art form, it is subjective. There&rsquo;s no singular way of making any dish and it&rsquo;s up to the cook to decide what flavours and textures to include. To that end, many recipes in cookbooks don&rsquo;t need to be followed as closely as a rocket ship instruction manual. I get most enjoyment from cooking when I can be creative and I tend to treat recipes as mere guidelines.

I have favourite dishes that have evolved over the years as I try different]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 13:34:45 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/how-to-make-a-healthy-delicious-creamy-soup-without-cream/</link>

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		<title>Feeding Venezuelan Refugees in Colombia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As with most everyone I know, I have never experienced hunger. I can&rsquo;t imagine what it must feel like for a parent to see their child suffer from malnutrition. I try to picture my own children in that state and find it unimaginable. It would be devastating. Picturing my own kids suffering has always been the catalyst that has motivated me to act. It&rsquo;s for this reason that I immersed myself in the Syrian refugee crisis starting in 2015.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2019 11:27:43 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/feeding-venezuelan-refugees-in-colombia/</link>

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		<title>Burgundy: A Wine You Can Love and Grow Old With</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you love to cook Italian food as much as I do, you inevitably tend&nbsp;to drink red wine. It&rsquo;s almost mandatory. And I happen to love red wine. Growing up in an Italian family meant there was always a bottle or carafe on the dinner table.

My father made his own wine for many years. Every October he would come home with a car load of Zinfandel grapes which we would unload and carry to our basement where he kept his wine press and oak barrels.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2019 11:42:07 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/burgundy-a-wine-you-can-love-and-grow-old-with/</link>

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		<title>Songwriting: How it Works</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A number of years ago, I took up songwriting. How it came about is a long story of serendipity that is better saved for the book I&rsquo;m currently writing. &nbsp;At the time, I saw songwriting as just another lark in my ongoing quest to experience every aspect of life, whether it be acting, cooking or mountain climbing. I certainly never dreamed it would someday evolve into my own music studio, WestSonic Music.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2019 14:22:03 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/songwriting-how-it-works/</link>

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		<title>How &quot;The Four Agreements&quot; Changed My Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine gave me a copy of the book, &ldquo;The Four Agreements&rdquo; a number of years ago, when he saw I was going through a difficult personal time. He said, &ldquo;this book will literally change your life. It certainly changed mine.&rdquo; &nbsp;And he was spot on, as it truly did change my life for better. I have referred to the book in many of my talks since, especially when I am mentoring at-risk teenage boys.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2019 13:27:55 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/how-the-four-agreements-changed-my-life/</link>

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		<title>How to Live a Balanced Life: Part 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Living A Life With Purpose

I believe in saving the best &lsquo;til last. Over the past several months I have written about what I believe to be the secrets to living a balanced life, which include &ndash; among other things - living a life with passion and the importance of family and friends. But for me, the importance of living a life with purpose trumps everything else.

Many of us go through life pondering our existence. Why are we here? What is the meaning of life?]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2019 11:15:40 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/how-to-live-a-balanced-life-part-5/</link>

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		<title>The US / China Trade War and the Dangers of Escalation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;History shows that when countries are busy trading with each other, there is little appetite for conflict. People on both sides may prosper by selling or be happy in their hedonistic consumption. It is usually when trade stops that wars start.&rdquo; Frank Giustra

Given the headlines over the past few weeks on the subject of trade wars, I think it would be worthwhile to revisit an article I wrote 4 years ago.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2019 15:10:10 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/chinas-rise/</link>

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		<title>My New Favourite Pasta Recipe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Famed Italian director Federico Fellini&nbsp;once wrote, &ldquo;Life is a combination of magic and pasta.&rdquo; I couldn&rsquo;t agree more. I live my life with passion and I do love my pasta. Eating pasta on a regular basis was just part of life growing up in an Italian family. I loved my mom&rsquo;s pasta dishes, especially her lasagna which my siblings and I (and many friends) still consider world class.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2019 09:23:35 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/my-new-favourite-pasta-recipe/</link>

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		<title>Lessons From the Mount</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago, a group of friends and I summited Mt. Kilimanjaro (19,300 feet). We were guided by the legendary mountaineer, Wally Berg. Wally has summited almost every high peak on the planet, including four successful summits on Mt. Everest (29,000 feet). We chose the five day route on Kilimanjaro instead of the more popular nine day route, solely because we didn&rsquo;t want to live outdoors any longer than absolutely necessary. But that choice came with a price.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2019 13:46:57 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/lessons-from-the-mount/</link>

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		<title>How to Live a Balanced Life: Part Four</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the first three parts of this series, I talked about the importance of family, friends, adventure and continuous learning to a balanced life.

Now I would like to turn our attention to the one secret that not only helps ensure happiness but can also give you a greater chance of success at whatever you undertake. My secret: be passionate. Make life choices according to what you love or know you will fall in love with. That goes for every choice, be it career, hobby,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2019 12:28:39 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/how-to-live-a-balanced-life-part-four/</link>

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		<title>How Yemen has benefitted from the work of International Crisis Group</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear reader,&nbsp;

If I were to ask you to tell me what you know about the Yemen conflict, I might expect a variety of answers. As a lay person, you might tell me that it&rsquo;s some kind of civil war somewhere in the Middle East. Or that you heard something about a bus filled with school children that was accidentally bombed. Or some of you might not have heard anything at all. You are not entirely to blame for your lack of knowledge.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2019 11:06:19 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/how-yemen-has-benefitted-from-the-work-of-the-international-crisis-group/</link>

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		<title>Inside My Heart: From Screening Room to Classroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Debra Kellner and I stood in the darkness on the shores of Lesvos, Greece, in November 2015, we never could have predicted the journey ahead of us. As I stood knee-deep in the water, helping refugees off an overcrowded zodiac, Debra was filming the entire scene. I had asked her to come with me on that first visit to shoot some video we could later use for media back home, to help bring attention to the refugee crisis.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2019 10:41:09 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/inside-my-heart-from-screening-room-to-classroom/</link>

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		<title>Ignorance and Fear Fuel Arson in Athens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month, a group of vandals targeted the offices of a Greek organization that provides HIV testing to not only the LGBTQ community in Athens, but to vulnerable refugee populations living in shelters and working in the sex trade. The vandals tore down a rainbow pride flag flying from the first-floor balcony, broke into the office, doused the room with gasoline and set it on fire. It was a cowardly attack,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:24:03 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/positive-voice-checkpoint-arson/</link>

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		<title>What I Learned Watching the 100 Best Movies of All Time with My Son</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed how lively a dinner conversation becomes when the subject of movies comes up? Everyone has an opinion &ndash;&nbsp;usually a strong one &ndash; on whatever is currently playing in theatres. I find this especially true during awards season, particularly around the Oscars. Movies evoke strong emotional reactions, contributing to their popularity as a form of entertainment.

I have loved watching movies my entire life and have dabbled in the movie industry since the]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2019 13:24:54 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/what-i-learned-watching-the-100-best-movies-of-all-time-with-my-son/</link>

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		<title>Helping Farmers Help Themselves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twelve years ago, I was looking for a way to translate my personal success and my extensive network into a meaningful means of addressing poverty. I had spent years travelling in the developing world and had witnessed the kind of poverty that makes one&rsquo;s heart ache. I approached a like-minded friend and suggested we attempt to tackle poverty in developing countries in an unconventional way.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2019 15:37:58 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/helping-farmers-help-themselves/</link>

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		<title>How to Live a Balanced Life: Part Three</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So far, in the first two installments of this five-part series, I have talked about the importance of family, friends and adventure to living a balanced life. Friends and family serve as the foundation of a good life, while adventure and challenge are essential to feeling vital and truly alive.&nbsp;

The third key to a balanced life revolves around the idea of working to maintain youthful vigour and health. Obviously, we can&rsquo;t stop the aging process.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2019 11:25:33 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/how-to-live-a-balanced-life-part-three/</link>

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		<title>Let&apos;s Hear it for the Boys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in the late &lsquo;90s, I was introduced to a high school drama teacher who was doing great work encouraging young men to write their own stories for film and television. His high school was in one of Vancouver&rsquo;s poorest neighbourhoods, where teenage boys were particularly vulnerable to gangs and drugs, and many of them had few if any good male role models. But Jimmy Crescenzo&rsquo;s program gave these kids a voice &ndash; a platform from which to tell their stories,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:56:42 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/in-praise-of-two-good-men-boys-club/</link>

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		<title>21 Lessons … and a Curious Recommendation for Humanity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the Christmas holidays, three friends decided to gift me the same book. I recently got around to reading one of the copies. (Sorry, friends &ndash; I have no idea whose copy I ultimately read.) The book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, was written by Yuval Noah Harari, who also wrote the bestseller, Sapiens, a few years ago. Like Sapiens &ndash; which I enjoyed immensely &ndash; the current book looks at humanity,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:37:23 -0700</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/21-lessons-harari-humanity-vipassana/</link>

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		<title>How to Live a Balanced Life: Part Two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back, I shared the first of my five secrets to living a balanced life. I talked about seeking adventure and challenging yourself as a means to feeling alive. But I also acknowledged that while climbing mountains and jumping out of planes carry their own valuable rewards, they are not the most important of the five secrets. They are pursuits best complemented by family and friends,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:13:44 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/how-to-live-a-balanced-life-part-two/</link>

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		<title>Giustra Fellowship a ‘Life-Changing’ Experience for Central African Analyst</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago &ndash; after I&rsquo;d sat on the board of the International Crisis Group for more than a decade &ndash; I decided I wanted to do more in the realm of conflict prevention. The deadly conflicts continually erupting and flaring up around the world are the main driver of the global refugee and migration crisis. If we could find a way to calm even some of the tensions and resolve some of the conflicts,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:19:13 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/giustra-fellowship-a-life-changing-experience-for-central-african-analyst/</link>

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		<title>Discovering the Perfect Pizza ... in Japan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like to think I make a pretty great pizza. At least that&rsquo;s what my friends tell me. My specialty is thin-crust pizza done in a wood-fired oven that a friend imported as a gift from Naples. I&rsquo;ve been lucky enough to have a private lesson from an award-winning Napolitano pizza maker, and I use the freshest ingredients I can find for toppings &ndash; the favourite being Parmesan and Fontina cheeses, prosciutto and arugula.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:12:32 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/discovering-the-perfect-pizza-in-japan/</link>

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		<title>A Truly Canadian Welcome for 5 Refugee Families</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, I was lucky enough to share a quintessentially Canadian experience with five families new to Canada. We travelled through a rare Vancouver snowfall to meet at Rogers Arena, watch a hockey game, and share some food with hopes of getting to know each other a bit. Language barriers were broken by interpreters, and we found common ground in our shared lack of general hockey knowledge.&nbsp;

Fin, the Canucks mascot,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:58:04 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/a-truly-canadian-welcome-for-5-refugee-families/</link>

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		<title>How to Live a Balanced Life: Part One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s no secret that life &ndash; while full of wonder, beauty and joy &ndash; can also be scary and confusing. The existential questions that have plagued people for centuries remain unchanged: Why are we here? What is the purpose of life? Is there a right way or wrong way to live? Those questions remain in large part because the answers are elusive, debateable and wildly subjective. There is no single answer, but as I&rsquo;ve grown older,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 18:54:34 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/how-to-live-a-balanced-life-part-one/</link>

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		<title>A Simple Plan: Spreading the Gospel of Private Refugee Sponsorship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All it took was a three-minute conversation on the phone. Just three minutes to convince me that such a seemingly simple idea could have such a potentially huge impact on thousands of refugees. It was obvious this was a brilliant idea. I almost wondered why it took so long.

The idea was essentially this: To draw on Canada&rsquo;s experience and leadership in private sponsorship and work to spread the model to other countries. It wouldn&rsquo;t take a lot of money.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 11:15:47 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/a-simple-plan-spreading-the-gospel-of-private-refugee-sponsorship/</link>

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		<title>My Secret Recipe for Eggplant Parmigiana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&rsquo;t believe I&rsquo;m about to do this. But here goes. I am going to share with you the up-until-now secret recipe for my signature dish: eggplant parmigiana.

The recipe is a variation of what was originally shared with me by my mother, who was &ndash; in my mind at least &ndash; the best cook on the planet. Over the past 25 years, I refined and improved upon her original recipe, to the point where she even conceded that my version &ldquo;surpassed&rdquo; hers.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:28:40 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/my-secret-recipe-for-eggplant-parmigiana/</link>

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		<title>VIDEO: The Cost of War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you look at all the causes of human suffering, conflict is one of the few that is preventable. The costs run into the billions or trillions.&nbsp;

International Crisis Group is a $20 million-a-year organization. It&#039;s a small amount of money in comparison. What is that worth in terms of conflict prevention?&nbsp;

Without peace, what&#039;s the point? You need peace first. Once you have peace,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:02:47 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/video-the-cost-of-war/</link>

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		<title>Dancing on the Precipice: &apos;Bankruptcy Happens Gradually, then Suddenly&apos;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Bankruptcy happens gradually, then suddenly,&rdquo; Ernest Hemingway

All signs point in the same direction. We are heading toward another financial crisis and, this time, it will likely be much worse than 2008. There is a growing chorus of economists and analysts who have already sounded the alarm, but most tend to wrap their warnings in mind-numbing statistical detail. In the following article,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2019 13:28:11 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/dancing-on-the-precipice/</link>

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		<title>Everest Gardening: Fresh Salad at 13,000 Feet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Food has never been the main attraction &ndash; or even a side attraction &ndash; of my trekking adventures. It has been primarily an inconvenient necessity.&nbsp;Consisting largely of rice, beans, and other equally uninteresting forms of sustenance, there is little to excite my senses. And&nbsp;without fresh vegetables, herbs, oils and garlic, it all starts to taste the same after a day or two.

But mountain adventures are not about the food. They are about fulfilling ambitions,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2019 07:31:07 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/fresh-salad-at-13-000-feet/</link>

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		<title>Chinese Government Needs Friends – People Who Are a Lot Like the Canadians it Has Detained</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone watching the news about my fellow Canadians &ndash; researcher Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor, held against their will in China &ndash; would be justified in having second thoughts about working in the country.

It has now been two weeks since China&rsquo;s state security whisked the two away to undisclosed locations. Neither one has been allowed to see a lawyer or a loved one. According to press reports,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2018 11:05:12 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/chinese-government-needs-friends/</link>

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		<title>My Favourite Christmas Memory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day, as I was running around the house, spilling coffee and looking for name tags for a&nbsp;pile of freshly wrapped presents, I heard a song that took me back to my childhood. Every year at this time, I set my home sound system to play an all-day stream of Christmas music. Each song touches me in a different way &ndash; some make me happy and others sad, leaving me feeling a bit like &lsquo;tis the season of being manic. But&nbsp;for&nbsp;me,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2018 07:24:39 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/my-favourite-christmas-memory/</link>

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		<title>How I Came to Love Physics, and Other Mysteries of the Universe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hated physics in high school. I never understood the point of learning about the forces of nature. Chemistry was much more exciting. You could create fun experiments that would foam and fizz. Physics was boring. That is, until 10 years ago when someone gave me a copy of The Fabric of the Cosmos, by Brian Greene.&nbsp;

The first time I picked it up, it was a slog. I had to pause often, trying to picture some of the complex ideas he was trying to explain. Thankfully,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2018 11:39:09 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/how-i-came-to-love-physics/</link>

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		<title>What Does China’s Rise Mean for the World?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Published Dec. 3, 2015 on Medium)

It seems our world is as unstable as it has ever been. There are brewing conflicts everywhere, in many cases interconnected and with such a cacophony of players that even seasoned diplomats are confused. To make things worse, we have a non-functioning UN Security Council and a lack of will by the international community to resolve conflicts.

Many of these conflicts have the potential to flare up into truly global problems.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2018 20:31:59 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/what-does-chinas-rise-mean-for-the-world/</link>

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		<title>Living Like You Are About to Die</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Man lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived&rdquo; - Dalai Lama


Ever wonder how your behaviour would change if you knew you were about to die? Over the holidays, I was having lunch with a friend who had recently undergone and survived an emergency surgery procedure. Without it, his prospects for survival would have been 50/50. I asked him if he now saw the world differently.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2018 04:04:27 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/fdsfdsfsfs/</link>

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		<title>Why I Chose to Stop Giving Anonymously</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my hometown of Vancouver, someone recently gave the B.C. Cancer Foundation $18.35 million and didn&rsquo;t want any credit for it. It was an anonymous gift. The mystery philanthropist was happy to give the money with the knowledge it would make a difference in the lives of those affected by cancer. End of story. They didn&rsquo;t want their name on a building.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2018 20:03:50 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/anonymous-vs-transparent-giving/</link>

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		<title>Fighting Homelessness: Don’t Be the Ass in Assuming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a book that literally changed my life. I was going through a difficult time in my personal life and a very dear friend handed me a book titled The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. He told me it had changed his perspective on everything. I read it, and it did much the same for me. I highly recommend you read this book.

The Four Agreements is an easy read and the points it makes are not difficult to comprehend.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2018 19:06:43 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/fighting-homelessness-dont-be-the-ass-in-assuming/</link>

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		<title>VIDEO: Inside My Heart and the Global Refugee Crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2015, I stood on a beach in Greece helping terrified and near-frozen refugees as they lurched out of a flimsy plastic boat filled with water. For them, this moment was one more step away from a devastating conflict that had ripped apart their world.

For me, it was a life changing experience that profoundly affected how I spend both my time and my money.

There are more than 22.5 million refugees in the world today and that number grows every hour.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2018 18:59:34 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>VIDEO: How passion has formed my life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everything in my life, including the success of my olive oil, Domenica Fiore, is about passion.&nbsp;

Passion gets you through the difficult times. Passion gives you conviction, and conviction helps you stay in the game.&nbsp;

Passion also begets excellence, driving you to make sure your effort is the best it can be.&nbsp;

In this talk, given at the New York International Olive Oil Competition, I discuss how passion has guided me in every aspect of my life.&nbsp;

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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2018 18:38:56 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>A Tribute to my Mother. And Food.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, my siblings and I decided to design and print a recipe book to celebrate my&nbsp;mother&rsquo;s 80th birthday. But it wasn&rsquo;t just any recipe book.

It contained exclusively her recipes: everything she had made for us when we were growing up. There were also family photos, personal tributes to her, and her own Italian stories &ndash; complete with the funny jokes she would deliver in butchered English. The stories were a combination of memories of special occasions,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2018 18:19:17 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/a-tribute-to-my-mother-and-food/</link>

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		<title>The Cure for Miserable Millionaires</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Who would be crazy enough to live like this?&rdquo; I wondered, tiptoeing through the maze of single-person tents. These volunteers, who came from every corner of the globe, were truly roughing it.

Their base camp, in a remote area of northern Peru, had few amenities. Fifty or so volunteers shared two bathrooms, ate from a &ldquo;buffet&rdquo; of few choices (spaghetti or egg) and bought their own beer from a local entrepreneur. Worse still, they worked up to 11 hours per day,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2018 03:41:50 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/the-cure-for-miserable-millionaires/</link>

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		<title>Why Misery is Being Weaponized in War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Frank Giustra and Robert Malley (President and CEO of International Crisis Group)

In the film&nbsp;Sicario, in which murderous drug cartels ravage communities along the U.S.-Mexico border, there is a sobering moment when a black-ops agent working for the United States explains the barbarism that terrorizes people.

&ldquo;You will not survive here,&rdquo; he tells an FBI agent, devastated by the savagery she has seen. &ldquo;You are not a wolf.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2018 03:08:43 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/why-misery-is-being-weaponized-in-war/</link>

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		<title>Making Meals that Bring People Together</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started cooking in my early 20s. I was barbecuing a salmon, and I thought I should probably get a little fancier with my approach. I had a cookbook there for some reason, and there was a very simple recipe. You just pour some mustard, pour some honey and squeeze a lemon in there, and voil&agrave;, you have an amazing sauce. My guests were really impressed, and I thought, well, I&rsquo;m a cook now.

My family immigrated here from Italy, and we always had marvellous,]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:12:25 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>A Winner&apos;s Take on &apos;Winners Take All&apos;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last summer, at a social dinner in Los Angeles, I had the opportunity to meet Anand Giridharadas, the former&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;columnist and author of&nbsp;Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. As he explained the message of his book, I became intrigued. For years, I have viewed the staggering economic inequality in the U.S. with fear and anxiety. I have watched the widening gap turn into a chasm, serving to illustrate just how broken the U.S.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:12:02 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/a-winners-take-on-winners-take-all/</link>

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		<title>As Republican Politicians Cower, Where Is America’s Cato?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While the pipe bombs sent in recent days to vocal critics of the current U.S. administration failed to detonate, the&nbsp;act&nbsp;lodged itself&nbsp;firmly in the American psyche. Combined&nbsp;with&nbsp;devastating&nbsp;gun violence at&nbsp;a synagogue in Pittsburgh and a bar in California, these violent acts from within&nbsp;have left&nbsp;the U.S. even more divided, rattled and uneasy.

Tuesday&rsquo;s midterm elections &mdash; which saw the Democrats win a majority in the House of Representatives and the]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2018 11:50:48 -0800</pubDate>
		<link>https://frankgiustra.com/posts/as-republican-politicians-cower-where-is-americas-cato/</link>

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