International Man: We’ve seen President Trump issue sharper warnings toward Iran. In your view, are US–Iran tensions headed toward open war, or is it just tough negotiating? Doug Casey: Trump fancies himself as the world’s best negotiator. But the world increasingly sees him as an unpredictable schizophrenic, unguided by reason. No one […]
Wow, 2026 is off to a spicy start. Civil war is brewing in the US as ICE agents run amok and Americans face the cold hard reality that their “rights” don’t mean “isht.” Trump’s support base is collapsing as MAGA increasingly realize they’ve been conned (again), and the deep state […]
The image above shows a one-kilo bar of gold (worth roughly $150,000 at present). Although my associate was joking when he placed one in his back pocket once, the gesture serves as a reminder of a basic principle of gold ownership: Keep your bullion in a place where you maximise […]
International Man: Davos 2026 just wrapped, and in Trump’s speech, he highlighted U.S. housing affordability. He framed it as a tradeoff with protecting existing homeowners’ wealth, warning that making homes “cheap” can crush values for people who already own them. How do you evaluate it economically and politically—and what does it […]
The Trump administration has made no secret of its desire to push the monetary easing pedal to the metal, even as the engine is already near the red line. They intend to push the system as hard as possible today and worry about the consequences later. One reason may be […]
Inflation is an elusive term. In 1983, Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary defined Inflation as: “An increase in the amount of currency in circulation, resulting in a relatively sharp and sudden fall in its value and rise in prices: it may be caused by an increase in the volume of paper money […]
When we referred to the Donald’s cockamamie invasion of Venezuela, that’s exactly what we meant. Washington’s War on Cocaine is already unnecessarily killing 20,000 Americans per year via adulterated cocaine and thousands more in the course of moving contraband product through violent criminal syndicates from Colombia to the USA retail […]
International Man: President Trump justified the operation and capture of Nicolas Maduro by saying it was because of drug trafficking and illegal immigration. What is the real objective of the US involvement in Venezuela? Doug Casey: The lies that the US government has put out regarding Venezuela are shameful. The amount […]
The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index is one of the clearest windows into how the average American actually feels about the economy. Each month, the university surveys households across the country, asking straightforward questions about personal finances, job prospects, inflation, and expectations for the future. Those responses are distilled […]
The above quote is from William Gouge, commenting on the Panic of 1819. The panic had been caused when the First Bank of the United States had first expanded the money supply dramatically by offering loans, then contracted the money supply by tightening its requirements for new loans, causing a […]