Frisby’s Forecasts: how did my predictions for 2021 pan out?

Dominic Frisby looks back at the predictions he made at the start of the year and finds that, all things considered, he hasn't done badly at all.

Gold and bitcoin
Dominic's bitcoin prediction was spot on, but he wasn't so lucky with gold
(Image credit: © Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty Images)

It’s my final Money Morning of the year and it’s the one in which – now something of a minor tradition – I look back to my first Money Morning of the year and mark my predictions.

Predictions are fickle little monsters. The ones you get right look obvious after the event, and the ones you get wrong make you look stupid. “How on earth could he have thought that?”

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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