Douglas Robert Casey
(born May 5, 1946
in Chicago, Illinois) is an
American
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** American ancestry, p ...
writer,
speculator, and the founder and chairman of Casey Research.
He describes himself as an
anarcho-capitalist
Anarcho-capitalism (colloquially: ancap or an-cap) is a political philosophy and economic theory that advocates for the abolition of Sovereign state, centralized states in favor of Stateless society, stateless societies, where systems of p ...
influenced by the works of writer and philosopher
Ayn Rand
Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; , 1905March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (), was a Russian-born American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system which s ...
.
Early life and education
Casey graduated from
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Ca ...
in 1968.
He was raised
Roman Catholic
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, but later became an
atheist
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.
He is the son of Eugene B. Casey, a multimillionaire real estate developer.
Career
Casey's 1979 book ''Crisis Investing'' was number one on
''The New York Times'' Non-Fiction Best Seller list in 1980 for 29 consecutive weeks. It was the best-selling financial book of 1980 with 438,640 copies sold.
Casey has a wine and residential sporting estate project called Estancia de Cafayate in
Salta Province
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,
Argentina
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.
Casey has recommended investing in gold.
Casey Research
Casey Research publishes a financial
newsletter
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Newsletters generally contain one main topic of ...
from an
Austrian School
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anarcho-capitalist perspective which advises on the purchase of
microcap stocks,
precious metal
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s, and other investments.
Views and approach
Casey describes himself as a