Doug Casey

Rousseau was perhaps the first to popularize the fiction now taught in civics classes about how government was created. It holds that men sat…

It has become increasingly clear to me that the stock market is no longer a stock market in the traditional sense. Its primary purpose…

As the Great Unravelling progresses, we shall be seeing many negative developments, some of them unprecedented. Only a year ago, the average person was…

The relationship between energy consumption and national wealth is one of history’s most consistent patterns. From coal-fired Britain to oil-powered America to today’s renewable…

You’ve heard the axiom “History repeats itself.” It does, but never in exactly the same way. To apply the lessons of the past, we…

“You can’t taper a Ponzi scheme.” Financial commentator Max Keiser originally said these simple yet profound words. A Ponzi scheme is an unsustainable scam…

Recently, a reader of International Man responded to an IM article regarding the danger of trusting banks (or anyone, for that matter) to hold…

Last year there were 178 million alcohol drinkers in the US, which, unfortunately, resulted in 178,000 alcohol related deaths in the US. That’s a…

International Man: In practically every country, the allowable limit for cash withdrawals and transactions continues to be lowered. Further, rampant currency debasement is lowering the…

Let me get straight to the point: there’s only one reason I’m interested in silver. I’m not interested in silver as money—it’s inferior to…