Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle taught us that money should be durable, divisible, consistent, convenient, and value in itself. It should be durable, which is why wheat isn't money; divisible which is why works of art are not money;… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
The way I see it, gold is headed over $1000 an ounce, probably much higher. At anywhere near current prices, it's the lowest risk,… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
Do all that you say you are going to do and don't aggress against other people or their property. That's the whole of the… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
So-called 'higher education' is a veritable magnet for second-raters and actively destructive parasites bent on promoting unsound ideas to the inexperienced and gullible. The… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
The time will come, and probably during 2009, that the only way the U.S. will be able to fund its deficits is to create money by printing it. The Treasury will have to sell bonds, and, in the absence of foreign buyers, the Fed will have to print the money to buy them. The consequence will be runaway inflation, increasing… — Doug Casey Copy Share
They've been changing the cry from "global warming" to "climate change" because there's so little evidence there's actually any warming going on. I believe… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
Global warming hysterics generally have limited scientific knowledge, and of geology and meteorology in particular. Their belief is not science; it's more akin to… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
Fear is being used by the political class as an excuse to accumulate more power and self-importance - and collect a lot more taxes… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
Government intervention in the economy - through taxes, regulation and, most importantly, currency inflation - causes distortions and misallocations of capital that must eventually be unwound. The distortions degrade the general standard of living, and the economy goes into a recession (call that an incomplete cleansing). Or it goes into a depression - wherein the entire sickly structure comes unglued. — Doug Casey Copy Share
People who buy government debt deserve to be punished and taught a lesson — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return. — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
Global warming is the most prominent form of mass hysteria raging across the world today. — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
All these people who think they deserve free health care, or a job, or a plasma screen TV, simply because they radiate heat at… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
