The World Gold Council recently commissioned Oxford Economics to carry out a study on how gold performs in both an inflationary and a deflationary environment. A useful question to ask as currently it would seem as though we have a bit of both going on.  Globally many asset prices such as housing are falling while we see inflation in many commodities such as...

The End of America The founder and namesake of Stansberry Associates, Porter Stansberry, shocked the audience at the Casey Research Spring Summit with his ‘End of America’ speech. “Our country racked up an enormous amount of debt over the last 40 years – an unprecedented amount of debt. We went from being the world’s largest creditor, to being the...

A BIG GOLD interview with John Hathaway, Tocqueville Gold Fund When John Hathaway spoke at the Casey’s Gold and Resource Summit in October, many of the audience came away feeling like they were listening to Doug Casey, with his contrarian views, bold statements, and laying much of the blame for our current problems at the feet of government. Read what John, a...

The 3 of us here at Gold Survival Guide first met at an investment dinner where Bud Conrad of Casey Research was the guest speaker, so it’s always great to hear from him.  Bud always uses quantitative analysis to get to the root of the matter – rather than just theorising he likes to look at the numbers and has a plethora of graphs to draw from....

A bit of a rarity this.  Hearing from Doug Casey himself as he’s often busy flitting around the world checking out places weird and wonderful.  So he generally leaves it up to the rest of the Casey faculty to do most of the writing.  We have been lucky enough to have met him in person at informal gatherings for Casey Research subscribers here in...