Doug Casey

• Muti-Billionaire (made money through speculation)
• Best-selling author
• World-renowned speculator
• Libertarian philosopher
• Reputation for his erudite (and often controversial) insights into politics, economics, and investment markets.
• Preeminent authorities on “rational speculation,” especially in the high-potential natural resource sector
• Doug literally wrote the book on profiting from periods of economic turmoil
• Doug has lived in 10 countries and visited over 175
• Is a self-proclaimed "anarchocapitalist" - he believes in a totally unregulated free market
• Dubbed "The International Man"
  • established residency in over 12 countries
  • has visited over 175 countries
  • has invested around the world

  
  

• Believes that the best returns come from going against the grain and taking a closer look at what everyone else is leaving behind
• Believes that we don't need government
• Governments today are too big and overeach what they should be doing:
• The government is not here to help - they are not a solution to any problem
• Government draws the worst types of people - not the best
• Governments should be there only to protect individuals from force by others:

1. Have an army to protect the country from invasion
2. Have a police force to protect citizens from violence within
3. Have a courts system to help settle internal disputes

Doug Casey Predictions

• Believes that the US will split up into multiple countries over the next few generations (it is too big as it is)
• Doesn't believe that the nation state is the best structure to live under

• All people live in their own "bubble" - we have to rely on others biased/filtered information to know about the broader world
• Believes that gold is money

• Crisis Investing spent multiple weeks as #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and became the best-selling financial book of 1980 with 438,640 copies sold
• Strategic Investing received the largest advance ever paid for a financial book at the time
• The International Man was the most sold book in the history of Rhodesia
• Totally Incorrect (2012) and Right on the Money (2013) continue the tradition of challenging statism and advocating liberty and free markets.

• Featured guest on hundreds of radio and TV shows:  David Letterman, Merv Griffin, Charlie Rose, Phil Donahue, Regis Philbin, Maury Povich, NBC News, and CNN
• Has been the topic of numerous features in periodicals such as Time, Forbes, People, and the Washington Post
• Regular keynote speaker at FreedomFest, the world’s largest gathering of free minds.

• Views John McCain as a war-monger, big-government liberal, and member of the Deep State
• Believes that giving to charities is a waste