Doug Casey

There’s a great deal more to becoming rich than buying the right investments and hoping for the best. The most important element in your strategy to win the battle for investment survival is your own psychology. You’ve heard that your attitude helps your health and your golf score; it’ll also improve your earning power. It’s not enough to liquidate your past financial mistakes. It’s more important to liquidate counterproductive attitudes, approaches, and methods of dealing with problems. The results that someone gets in life are an indication of how sound his approach toward life is. A sound philosophy of life … Continue reading →

The recent news that US home prices in December were up by 6.1% on a Y/Y basis is just one more reminder of why the Fed's pro-inflation policies are so insidious.

Currently, Russia is the largest foreign supplier of nuclear power fuel to the United States. In 2022 — despite all the talk about “Putin bad — Russia supplied almost a quarter of the enriched uranium used to fuel America's fleet of more than 90 commercial reactors.

An increasing number of people are coming to the conclusion that their home countries (particularly the US, EU and Canada) are in decline. More and more, such people are deciding to seek greener pastures elsewhere in the world.

BREAKING: Uri Berliner has resigned from NPR after penning an essay criticizing the outlet for his far-left bias and subsequently suspended without pay. “I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR I cite in my Free Press essay.”

International Man: According to a recent study by Investopedia, the classic middle-class American Dream now costs over $3.4 million. That’s the estimated lifetime cost of marriage, two children, cars, homes, healthcare, education, and retirement. It’s now entirely out of reach for many Americans. What do you make of this? How did this happen? Doug Casey: The fact is, despite the fact that his standard of living has been slipping over the past 50 years, the average American today lives much better and longer than a king during pre-industrial times. There were never any guarantees that Americans would live in the lap of luxury … Continue reading →

When it comes to Keynesian central banking, it might well be said that if you paint by the numbers you are stuck with the brush.

International Man: What is the role of a justice system in a society, and what should the State have to do with it? Doug Casey: In my view, what really holds a society together isn’t the laws enacted by legislatures or dictators, but peer pressure, social opprobrium, and moral approbation. In general, society is pretty self-regulating. It’s why people pay their bills at restaurants even though there’s not a cop at the door. Criminals are the exception, not the rule—although, it must be said, they naturally gravitate towards the government. When somebody commits a crime, there’s a trial to determine … Continue reading →

Too many times in the past have I seen covers like this… and a few years later it didn't turn out too bullish!

Years ago, Doug Casey mentioned in a correspondence to me, “Empires fall from grace with alarming speed.”