Doug Casey of Casey Research, author of the best sellers Strategic Investing, Crisis Investing and Crisis Investing for the Rest of the 90's, has lived in seven countries and visited over 100 more. He has appeared on scores of major radio and TV shows and remains an active speculator in the stock, bond, commodity, and real estate markets around the world.
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Nov 1st, 2010 |
By Doug Casey |
Category: Featured, Politics
Louis: So, Doug, about the Tea Party?
Doug: Consider what seems to be brewing in the Tea Party movement. It’s just a straw in the wind, of no real significance itself, but a foreshadowing of something ominous. All the false hope this Tea Party movement is creating impresses me as similar ...
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Tags: Glenn Beck, government, religion, republicans, tea party
Posted in Featured, Politics |
13 comments
Sep 27th, 2010 |
By Doug Casey |
Category: Featured, Gold, Personal Investing
The Gold Report: Doug, at a recent conference you said that the U.S. ought to default on its national debt now. Why that rather than letting it play out?
Doug Casey: Several other things almost equally radical should be done besides defaulting on the debt. I recognize that an outright default ...
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Tags: default on national debt, Gold, Greater Depression, inflation
Posted in Featured, Gold, Personal Investing |
3 comments
May 17th, 2010 |
By Doug Casey |
Category: Economics, Featured
L: Doug, our readers are hoping to live well for the rest of their lives. If they are successful, they’ll have some money left over at the end. Some have wondered, given your low opinion of trying to use the state to improve the human condition, if there’s a private ...
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Tags: charity, poverty, wealth, welfare
Posted in Economics, Featured |
26 comments
Apr 26th, 2010 |
By Doug Casey |
Category: International, Politics
L: Doug we recently tested dangerous waters and talked on race while discussing Russia – and Russians. Your views on this subject will probably offend any number of people, but some things are worth saying, regardless. And, cold as it may sound, I think there are investment implications. Shall we ...
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Tags: investing, race, racism
Posted in International, Politics |
11 comments
Apr 19th, 2010 |
By Doug Casey |
Category: Featured, Politics
L: The state’s requirements for self-preservation are why people so often say that the state is a “necessary evil.” It must violate some rights to exist, but people think that the state’s protection and support of civil society, which is a great value, is worth the violation.
Doug: I find the ...
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Tags: anarchy, governments, rights, the State
Posted in Featured, Politics |
31 comments
Apr 14th, 2010 |
By Doug Casey |
Category: Featured, Politics
L: Doug, you keep saying you’re an anarchist. I suspect most of our readers know that doesn’t mean you like to wear black army boots and throw Molotov cocktails at McDonald’s restaurants during WTO protests, but I’m not sure how many really know what it is you do mean. And ...
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Tags: anarchy, the State
Posted in Featured, Politics |
22 comments
Apr 5th, 2010 |
By Doug Casey |
Category: Featured, International, Personal Investing
L: Doug, we recently talked about getting assets out of your home country, especially the U.S., where to take them and what to do with them. In so doing, you touched on the inevitability of currency controls just ahead, especially for Americans. Can you tell us more about that?
Doug: Yes, ...
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Tags: currency controls, expatriation, foreign investing, government
Posted in Featured, International, Personal Investing |
12 comments
Mar 16th, 2010 |
By Doug Casey |
Category: Featured, Housing, International, Personal Investing
L: Doug, People want to know more about Argentina and why you like it so much. So, let’s talk about Argentina.
Doug: Sure. This is a good time, too, because I’m having a sort of house-warming party at the world-class resort we’re building in Salta province, northwest Argentina. With the stipulation ...
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Tags: argentina, expatriation, government, South America
Posted in Featured, Housing, International, Personal Investing |
26 comments
Mar 12th, 2010 |
By Doug Casey |
Category: Economics, Featured, Personal Investing, Politics
L: Doug, last time we spoke, you said quite a bit about debt, in the context of your expectation that the euro is on its way out. At the end of that conversation, you mentioned, of course, that the problem is not limited to Greece, nor the eurozone. America as ...
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Tags: debt, fiat currency, financial collapse, inflation, money
Posted in Economics, Featured, Personal Investing, Politics |
11 comments
Jan 27th, 2010 |
By Doug Casey |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics
L: So, Ben Bernanke just got named ”Person of the Year” by Time magazine. I know you must have some thoughts in response to this auspicious event?
Doug: I just don’t know where they find these people... On the other hand, Slime magazine has always said that those named Person of ...
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Tags: deflation, dollar, government, inflation, Savings
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics |
4 comments
