“Generally, one simply must internationalize one’s assets. The biggest danger investors face, by far, is not market risk – huge as that will be – but political risk. The only way to insulate yourself from such risk is to diversify yourself politically and geographically.”
January 26th, 2012 | Doug Casey | 4 comments | ContinuedArchive for Doug Casey
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. In his spare time, Doug engages in competitive shooting and plays polo.
Getting Out of Dodge: Part I
An interview with international investor Doug Casey conducted by Louis James, Editor, International Speculator.
January 25th, 2012 | Doug Casey | 0 comments | Continued
Our Economic Future: From Best to Worst Case
There is a great deal of uncertainty among investors about what the future of the US economy may look like – so I decided to take a stab at what’s likely to happen over the next 20 years. That’s enough time for a child to grow up and mature, and it’s long enough for major trends to develop and make themselves felt.
June 10th, 2011 | Doug Casey | 3 comments | Continued
Keeping Capital in a Depression
Nothing is cheap in today’s investment world. Because of the trillions of currency units that governments all over the world have created – and are continuing to create – financial assets are grossly overpriced. Stocks, bonds, property, commodities and cash are no bargains.
May 16th, 2011 | Doug Casey | 0 comments | Continued
Patriotic Expatriates
I’ve written many times about the importance of internationalizing your assets, your mode of living, and your way of thinking. I suspect most readers have treated those articles as they might a travelogue to some distant and exotic land: interesting fodder for cocktail party chatter, but basically academic and of little immediate personal relevance.
March 9th, 2011 | Doug Casey | 0 comments | Continued
Making the Chicken Run
With the US government’s ever-increasing stranglehold on Americans’ assets, smart investors are now taking their wealth abroad. “Making the chicken run” is what Rhodesians used to say about neighbors who packed up and got out during the ’60s and ’70s, before the place became Zimbabwe.
March 8th, 2011 | Doug Casey | 0 comments | Continued
Thoughts on the Greater Depression
The Gold Report:Doug, at a recent conference you said that the US 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.
October 5th, 2010 | Doug Casey | 8 comments | Continued
Protecting Your Cash, Part II
An Interview with Doug Casey from Cafayate, Argentina – Interviewer: Concerning the risk of foreign exchange controls here in the US, do you think people will have any warning at all? Doug: I think it’s going to come out of left field. It always does, with at most an official denial just before it happens.
August 19th, 2010 | Doug Casey | 0 comments | Continued
Protecting Your Cash
Interviewer: Doug, we recently talked about getting assets out of your home country, especially the US, 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?
August 17th, 2010 | Doug Casey | 2 comments | Continued
Ten Benefits of Expatriation
Everybody has their own personal reasons for expatriating, but here are some of the benefits:
June 17th, 2010 | Doug Casey | 13 comments | Continued
Is Your Money What You Think It Is?
The paper we use today is a medium of exchange – it got that way because governments made it illegal not to accept it – but it’s not a good store of value.
March 19th, 2010 | Doug Casey | 2 comments | Continued
Baby Bush: The Worst President in History?
I recognize that I’ve antagonized many of my subscribers over the years with “Bush Bashing.” In January, just after OBAMA!’s election, I said I wouldn’t mention Bush again, his departure having made him irrelevant.
August 20th, 2009 | Doug Casey | 9 comments | Continued
