Doug Casey: We're heading for a disaster of genuinely historic proportions - 'I'm worried about the collapse of Western civilization'
"The battle is kind of lost. I'm not even worried about the markets...I'm worried about the collapse of Western civilization itself, because of all the values that made the West what it is...these things are held in disrepute by the public at large."
Doug Casey is an American-born libertarian economist and advocate of the free market. He is a bestselling financial author, international investor, entrepreneur, and the founder and chairman of Casey Research, a provider of subscription financial analysis about specific market verticals including natural resources/metals/mining, energy, commodities, and technology. Since 1979 he has written or co-written the monthly metals-and-mining-focused investment newsletter The International Speculator. He has authored four books, including Crisis Investing