Best-selling author, world-renowned speculator, and libertarian philosopher.

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World-renowned speculator and libertarian philosopher Doug Casey (@RealDougCasey) joins today's Liberty Report to discuss his new book, The Preparation: How To Become Competent, Confident, and Dangerous. Watch below:
Before World War I, you didn’t need a passport to travel internationally. It was a self-evident truth that a sovereign individual could travel anywhere he wanted without asking for anyone’s permission. Unfortunately, that’s not how travel works today. Your so-called freedom of movement depends on getting multiple governments’ blessings. You need to get a passport from your home government—possibly one that contains your immutable biometric information—and a visa from the government of your destination country and further visas from the governments of any country you transit to get there. In addition to passports and visas, governments can impose ridiculous and invasive medical conditions to enter their territories, as the Covid mass psychosis proved. Instead of an inalienable right, governments treat travel as a special privilege they grant the plebs that can be taken away if they misbehave—much like how an adult treats a child’s request to go to a friend’s house. In reality, passports do not facilitate travel. They are tools for governments to control and coerce you. The world would be better off without them. Unfortunately, passports are not going away. You will continue to need a passport to travel, so you might as well have more than one to dilute your home government’s ability to control you.
Democracy in today’s world is just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie. It amounts to a secular religion, where the State is a god, and politicians are its priests.
Money is a primary manifestation of personal freedom. Money isn’t just an economic good; it’s a moral good. It represents the hours of your life you spent earning it, and all that you hope to provide for yourself and others in the future. It is, in effect, congealed or crystallized life. Those who want to control other people—collectivists, statists, Marxists, the Woke, socialists, and the like—naturally want to limit the uses and the value of money.
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I’m not a religious person, but it may yet turn out that the New Testament, Revelation 13, is correct where it says: “He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” That verse is quite predictive. internationalman.com/article…
Money isn’t just an economic good; it’s a moral good. It represents the hours of your life you spent earning it... It is, in effect, congealed or crystallized life.
"Every nation drifts toward tyranny because those who most desire to rule are the ones most willing to do whatever it takes to get there." internationalman.com/article…
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Where Not to Be in a Crisis We’re only in the first stages of collapse. It will get quite a bit worse before it gets better. internationalman.com/article…
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In ancient Rome, an interregnum was a time between stable governments — chaos, warlords, and collapse. We’re living through another interregnum today.
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When a central bank lowers rates, it’s equivalent to giving a human amphetamines; when they raise them, it’s like a dose of barbiturates. Central bankers are like a quack doctor, poisoning the economy by distorting economic signals. internationalman.com/article…
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