The investment landscape is getting messy – what should you own now?

What can you own when everything is expensive? Dominic Frisby explains how to navigate what is becoming an increasingly difficult investment landscape.

FTSE share index board
Nothing is cheap, because there’s too much money sloshing about.
(Image credit: © Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

(John here – don’t forget to grab your ticket for our virtual Wealth Summit in November. Things are rather heating up in markets, as Dominic discusses below, so you couldn’t pick a better time to be in a room with a group of the world’s smartest financial experts covering all the topics that matter most – find out more here.)

It feels like the 1970s all over again: energy shortages, inflation – and I mean visible inflation in everyday goods, not just in house prices – supply chain issues, rising bond yields, volatile markets, social discontent...

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Dominic Frisby

Dominic Frisby (“mercurially witty” – the Spectator) is as far as we know the world’s only financial writer and comedian. He is the author of the popular newsletter the Flying Frisby and is MoneyWeek’s main commentator on gold, commodities, currencies and cryptocurrencies. He has also taken several of his shows to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

His books are Daylight Robbery - How Tax Changed our Past and Will Shape our Future; Bitcoin: the Future of Money? and Life After the State - Why We Don't Need Government

Dominic was educated at St Paul's School, Manchester University and the Webber-Douglas Academy Of Dramatic Art. You can follow him on X @dominicfrisby