Doug Casey

Fiat money repeatedly drives inflation and government controls, and early American history shows how a weakening dollar can lead to serious social and economic fallout. internationalman.com/articles/all-t…

The US is in the habit of building fantastically expensive, complicated weapons that were originally intended to confront peer adversaries like the Soviet Union or China. That can make sense when you consider that a US soldier costs about a million dollars, all in, to train and support. But a Third World teenager costs about nothing. Each of them is like an AI-directed cruise missile, but there are millions of them. It’s the same equation with missiles and drones.

War has always been about economics. That’s even truer today because of the huge discrepancy between what the First World can afford and what the Third World can. I believe Iran is using what Muhammad Ali called the rope-a-dope. You mostly just absorb your opponent’s blows. He tires himself out, and then you counterattack. The Iranians’ rope-a-dope is to let the US and Israel deplete their supplies of ultra-expensive missiles and interceptors before counterattacking in size.

Uranium is not a short-term trade driven by headlines or political theater. It is a structural shift. Governments are reasserting control over supply chains, rewriting energy policy, and committing real capital to nuclear power in a way we haven’t seen in decades. At the same time, the physical realities of uranium—long development timelines, scarce high-grade deposits, and highly concentrated production—mean supply cannot respond quickly. And when the uranium market move, it doesn’t move gently.

Why most people stay as freedoms erode—and how to build a lifeboat with a practical exit plan abroad. internationalman.com/articles/going…

The Iran war is the product of an embedded war apparatus, a recycled neocon script, and a political class that can’t say no. It’s barreling toward a disaster of historic proportions.

A Strait of Hormuz shutdown, which could remove 20 million barrels from a global market producing about 100 million barrels per day—a staggering 20% of supply gone. This would be the largest supply shock in history. By far. internationalman.com/articles/finan…

Full article here: Doug Casey on the Dollar’s Debasement… Why Socialism Rises, and Wealth Taxes Follow internationalman.com/articles/doug-…

Inflation has always benefited rich asset owners at the expense of current earners. That’s true for several reasons. First, the earners have to pay taxes on the money as it comes in, but asset owners don’t pay tax on the increase in value of their property until they sell. And then it’s at lower capital gains rates. Second, even though earners typically don’t keep up with the rate of inflation, they’re constantly pushed into higher tax brackets as their wages rise.

It’s doubtful that the US and its allies can win the war in Ukraine against Russia or a potential war over Taiwan against China. Their best shot at rolling back Russian and Chinese influence in a multipolar world is through striking Iran, which is exactly what they have just done. Whether they’ll succeed in Iran is another question entirely. In short, bringing Iran under US influence would open the door to further undermining both Russia and China. For them, Iran is strategic depth. Russia and China cannot afford to let Iran fall—and the US and Israel cannot afford to let it stand. The question is: who will prevail?

If you wish to get your money or precious metals out of an endangered jurisdiction, such as an EU country or North America, the window of opportunity is closing. Expect them to make it difficult, costly, and even impossible for you to get out. The safest strategy is to hold fully allocated physical gold in a reputable facility within a stable, investor-friendly jurisdiction.

A Strait of Hormuz shutdown, which could instantly remove 20 million barrels from a global market producing about 100 million barrels per day—a staggering 20% of supply gone overnight. This would be the largest supply shock in history. By far. A closure of the Strait of Hormuz is a credible trigger for a catastrophic global economic depression.

Full article here: Doug Casey on Rising Capital Controls, Tighter Borders, and What You Can Do About It internationalman.com/articles/doug-…

The fact that you’re even reading this now shows that you’re a potential Enemy of the State. Those with libertarian, free-market, or classical liberal views are viewed with suspicion by the powers that be. Right now, you’re just an eccentric. But when the going gets tough—when the economy collapses, or the war in the Ukraine, or the impending war with Iran, or other places, gets out of control—that’s going to change.

What’s happening to citizenship and residency pathways right now is part of a much bigger squeeze: governments are tightening the screws on movement, money, and personal autonomy—often with little warning and less transparency. These windows don’t close with a headline. They close quietly, through policy updates, stricter enforcement, and new barriers that make yesterday’s straightforward Plan B impossible—or far more expensive—tomorrow.

Big cities can quickly become dangerous during prolonged crises—due to fragile supply lines, unrest, and low self-reliance—and having an early exit plan and a rural “bolt-hole” may be vital.

The West has suffered a gigantic bout of collective stupidity by believing that everyone can live at the expense of everyone else. And worse, a moral failure by enforcing socialist and collectivist ideas. As a consequence, there are hundreds of trillions of dollars of debt in the world. It’s not academic; some people owe that money to other people. Both the lenders and the borrowers are going to be very unhappy. internationalman.com/articles/doug-…

No matter how they try to disguise it with confusing euphemisms quantitative easing reserve management yield curve control large-scale asset purchases open market operations balance-sheet expansion liquidity injections emergency lending facilities repo operations And countless other bits of financial jargon, the end result is always the same: currency debasement.

The denarius was the coin of the realm during the centuries when Rome was a republic. Although the gold solidus was used as a storage of wealth, the silver denarius was equal in value to a day’s wages for a common labourer and, as such, was more useful as the primary unit of exchange. During this time, it was a stable currency. However, as Rome turned into an empire, all that conquest in foreign lands became extremely costly and it was decided that one way to offset such costs was to devalue the denarius. Each successive emperor added a bit more base metal than the previous one and, by the time of Diocletian, there was no silver in the coin at all, only bronze. During this same period, Rome experienced dramatic inflation – a predictable outcome when the coin of the realm is degraded. The population was in decline as well. If this sounds familiar, it should. Modern governments have a tendency to make precisely the same mistakes with regard to currencies. First, empire-building drains the coffers to the point that maintaining a sound economy is no longer possible, then successive “emperors” make the decision to debase the currency in an effort to keep the party going a bit longer. Of course, “inflating the problem away” never actually works. Just as Rome went into an irreversible decline, so the empire of today is self-destructing, due, in part, to monetary debasement.