by David Galland, Managing Director, Casey Research In the emails that our readers at Casey Research send our way, questions and concerns about the possibility of gold confiscation rank high. My somewhat standard response is that, yes, it’s possible, but that we should see straws in the wind well before it happened… allowing us to [...]

Happy 4th of July. For those of you living in the United States, I don’t have to tell you how special this day is to us. For those readers who happen to live elsewhere, the 4th of July is the day where Americans celebrate liberty, thank God for political justice, and eat a lot of [...]

People call me a pessimist because I’m not delusionally optimist about the world economy. Our governments are so screwed up, there doesn’t seem to be much hope of actually fixing the problems. Economics say there’s no such thing as a free lunch. The government doesn’t understand this. The government is dishing out random lumps of [...]

I can’t imagine living in America during the 1930s. It was during the Great Depression, FDR was being an economic totalitarian, fascists were taking over Europe, Communists were taking over the rest of the world, and liberty was all but becoming extinct — even in America. In 1933, America’s most power-hungry president — that would [...]