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| In January 2003 I wrote an article entitled 'Offshore
Real Estate As Offshore Survival Retreat - Advice Without The Sugar Coating'.
In that article I warned Americans how important it was to do two things;
the first was to find a safe haven outside of the USA, the second was to
get an alternative, or second passport. These two pieces of advice were
derivatives of a book I wrote in 1995, entitled 'Escape From America'.
The information in that book, in that article, and on this website are
much more acceptable to the general public than they were in 1995.
Meaning that others think I am less whacky then they once did. (I am sure
that many hold the opinion that the jury is still out.) |
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| Crisis Investing 101 is a new section on EscapeArtist.com.
Its premise is based on my assumption that we are now in the early stages
of what may prove to be as much as a decade long crisis, a crisis which
may include civil unrest, social breakdown, riots, martial law, and worst.
In numerous articles I have explained why an offshore safehaven may prove
far superior to one located inside the USA; many others have reached the
same conclusion. |
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| There is another important issue addressed
in this section; how to protect your assets in a time of crisis. We are
starting out with material from Casey Research as they have the longest
track record on Crisis Investing; Doug Casey having written his best selling
book, Crisis Investing in 1983, his research group is focused on crisis
investing as well as international relocation. As the people at Casey
Research put it, Don't just survive the current crisis rocking the markets...
thrive! We intend to cover as many crisis survival issues in
this section as is possible, and provide information on everything that
we believe to hold legitimate value. We have a series of articles coming
on personal survival, what might be called family survival; and much more
to follow that. |
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Section One - Economic Survival
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Doug
Casey has developed a safe haven (a survival retreat for the rational),
a refuge away from the ugly type of social breakdown & disorder that
will inevitably result from the current economic crisis. Located
in Argentina, it is not a 'freeze dried food & survival gear' type
of place, but a fine estancia. Vineyards, golf course, tennis courts, stables,
pool, polo grounds, lap pool, bocce ball, bodega, kilometers of biking,
jogging, and riding trails. Plus a nice library, and, as Doug puts it,
the kind of neighbors you can have a pleasant intellectual conversation
with. If
you're interested in learning more about Doug's Estancia, click here.
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| Foundations
of Crisis - History, Predictions & The Economic Crisis - By Doug Casey
- Personally, I believe that unassailable wealth is the best protection
against global crisis. For it to be unassailable, your wealth must be at
once substantial, free from threat of confiscation, divorced from the whims
of the masses, and located in a country or currency that has a good risk/reward
profile. Unfortunately, the U.S. doesn't make the cut. Assuming you wanted
to stay in the U.S., you'd rather be on some land near a small town, and
far away from a major city. You'd want to be self-sufficient in as many
ways as possible – freeze-dried food. etc. |
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Greater Depression and What You Should Do About It - By Doug Casey
- What should you do? Reduce your standard of living now (while the situation
is still under control), greatly increase your savings (in gold, which
is real money) and rig for greatly changed patterns of production, consumption,
employment and business for a considerable time. The hurricane that’s just
starting to hit the economy will both trigger and worsen problems in other
areas. |
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Greater Depression: Updated by Doug Casey - Let me cover the big
picture. I do think we're approaching the end of the world as we know it…I
think there is such thing as the business cycle. It exists. And we've had
the longest expansion - and the strongest expansion - in the world history.
But we're at the end of a 25-year boom. It's gone on more than a full generation
now. And I'll tell you how it's going to end: It's going to end with a
depression, and not just a depression; not just another Great Depression;
it's going to be the Greater Depression. |
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In the short term I think
there are lots of reasons to be afraid. Very afraid.
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the Trouble in the World - It's Time To Buy Gold - by Doug Casey.
What will, in fact, happen? Nobody knows, including myself. But I’m quite
afraid we’re in for truly stormy weather in the next few years. Most people
aren’t adequately, or even at all, aware of this prospect. I suggest you
stay with the approach we advise in our monthly BIG GOLD advisory. And
that approach has a foundation in gold and carefully selected gold stocks.
In my opinion, gold isn’t just going through the roof in the next few years.
It’s going to the moon. And gold stocks are a leveraged way to capitalize
on it. |
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| Profit
From Energy Opportunities - an energy
crisis is brewing that could dwarf the one the United States faced in 1979-80
- huge profits are going to be made - technical indicators clearly show
that energy stocks are poised to advance. The significant gains we’ve witnessed
in certain energy stocks are nothing compared to the runs we will witness
as the next energy crisis comes into full effect. |
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Waters: The Trillion Dollar Heist - How the Treasury Department, on our
behalf, nicked us for a cool trillion in three months - By Editors
Doug Hornig and Bud Conrad, The Casey Report - Over the past four months,
American banks have received massive amounts of bailout money, ostensibly
to unfreeze the credit market and enable the banks to lend money again.
That it didn’t work is obvious from a couple of charts. The Treasury Department,
on our behalf, nicked us for a cool trillion in three months. Never been
done before. |
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| Casey
Research Interviews Congressman Ron Paul - Unless we return to
a sensible monetary policy and rein in government spending, I expect the
value of the dollar to continue to fall. History shows that governments
tend to react to economic crises by increasing government control over
the free market, so, yes, it is quite possible that the U.S. Government
will respond to a future economic downturn with currency and capital controls. |
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| The financial section is not yet complete; we
have more articles and resources. This entire section is under development
with resources being added daily. We thought that this subject was
important enough to put in online even before it was completed due to its
time sensitive nature. |
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Section Two - Personal Survival
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| This entire section is under development with
resources being added daily. We thought that this subject was important
enough to put in online even before it was completed due to its time sensitive
nature. |
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| The personal survival section will include information
on setting up a personal survival retreat for a family and will cover a
wide range of subjects. |
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 Don't
just survive the current crisis rocking the markets... thrive! Casey
Research, LLC., publishes a variety of subscription-based advisories for
independent-minded investors, including The
Casey Report. for over a quarter of a century we've been helping investors
like you discover the best opportunities for making money... especially
during times of crisis. |
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