Legendary speculator Doug Casey has been in the commodities markets for over 40 years. It’s been the key to some of his most significant investment wins. Gold and silver have broken out of a six-year trading range and seem to be going higher. We think this signals the start of a new bull market and […]
Continue readingMayer Amschel Rothschild died in 1812, so he could hardly be referred to as a pal of Xi Jinping, but the two have a great deal in common. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Mr. Rothschild discovered that, as a major banker in Germany, he could control the country to a greater degree […]
Continue readingDoug Casey’s Note: David Stockman is a former congressman and director of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan. Now, anyone with connections to the government should elevate your suspicion level. But as you’ll see, David is a genuine opponent of government stupidity. Although his heroic fight against the Deep State during the […]
Continue readingHis life changed after he drank a mysterious tonic on a layover in Thailand… Dietrich Mateschitz was a director for a bathroom products company. In 1982, while on a business trip in Bangkok, he sought something to cure his jet lag. That’s when he discovered a local beverage made of caffeine, taurine, and other stimulating […]
Continue readingAs regular readers of my missives will know, I enthusiastically recommend the concept of internationalisation – the diversification into multiple jurisdictions to avoid being the possession of any one government. Recently, I was asked if this didn’t make an individual the possession of several governments, instead of just one, and the answer is no. Most […]
Continue readingInternational Man: Everywhere you look, ever-increasing government regulations create a serious obstacle to economic activity. There are too many regulations today, many with severe penalties. Most companies of even modest size now have a compliance department, along with numerous compliance officers and supernumeraries. That wasn’t the case a few decades ago. It seems the compliance […]
Continue readingDoug Casey’s Note: Few people travel to Africa. If they do, it’s with a guided tour to Morocco or Egypt. But those hardly count, in part because those countries aren’t African as much as Arabic. To others, “Africa” is a guided safari in Botswana or Kenya to see the animals. Nice, but that’s the sanitized […]
Continue readingThe Akkadian Empire is often regarded as the world’s first empire, reaching its peak between the 24th and 22nd centuries BC, some 4,400 years ago. It was in the Middle East, home of quite a few empires over the millennia. It began with King Sargon, who, having succeeded at conquering his neighbours in Babylonia, decided […]
Continue readingThe media hated them. Big Business, numerous federal agencies, and politicians of all stripes hated them too. Even Tiffany & Co., the famous jewelry company, vilified them in a full-page advertisement in The New York Times, calling them “unconscionable.” The villains everyone loved to hate were the Hunt brothers. They were critics of the fiat […]
Continue readingAt one time, most people were content to have whatever passport their birth entitled them to, for the duration of their lives. But as many governments have become increasingly oppressive to their citizens, more people, in more countries, have been seeking second and even third citizenships. As International Man feature writer Jeff Thomas began living […]
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