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enginer
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enginer
February 28, 2009 2:56 pm

Opinions are like ___s, everyone has one.

This said, I think Casey has a very good chance to be correct, long term.

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Enginer
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December 12, 2009 7:08 pm

I have subscribed to Doug Casey’s (report) service for about a year now, and can’t really say i receive good value. Occasionally there is a point not generally available elsewhere, and perhaps i am missing something.

Roger
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February 11, 2010 8:48 am

The Casey Report is one of the most complete analysis I receive in any investment newsletter.

The writing style is interesting and holds one’s attention much better than the dry numbers & charts of so many newsletters.

Bud Conrad is one of the top economists and not only did he call the current financial crisis right on the money, he told us to short Fannie Mae when it was in the 60’s, right before it tanked.

For an economist, Bud is interesting to read or listen to.

David Galland digs up investment stories that many times no one else is talking about. Casey Research casts a wide investment radar net and they don’t care if they offend anyone in reporting what investors need to hear.

Best of all, they continually bang the drum to invest only what you can afford to lose, take your original money off the table as soon as you have a double by selling half and they keep you up to date with news from all recommendations on a daily basis in the subscribers area of the website.

The Casey Report is a must have for investors tired of being lied to by the investment media.

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Matt R.
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Matt R.
May 9, 2010 7:21 pm

Running at around 35 pages per issue, this report is a good value for the money, as it is packed with a lot of useful information on economics, politics, relevant data, and investment picks. Bud Conrad, the Casey Research economist, is always enjoyable to read.

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bogus1
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bogus1
June 8, 2010 12:00 pm

I’ve followed Doug Casey on and off for 20+ years, and only wish I’d followed him much closer for that period of time. I finally invested in a subscription of two of his newsletters several years ago before the prices went up, and have found Casey Research to be outstanding. They never claim they “know it all,” or have some “secret” “inside” information – they just do their homework, tell the readers how they do it, and suggest readers to their own due diligence (after telling them how). Most probably don’t have the time, so (like me) they rely mostly on Casey’s folks (each outstanding, it appears). They make no pretense of always getting it right, and clearly state that some of their picks are for money that can be fully lost and not seriously missed – with the philosophy that more of their picks are likely to do well, some spectacularly so, and those will more than make up for the busts. My experience so far has been very, very positive. For example, he’s been strongly recommending Silver Wheaton for some time now, and results speak for themselves (currently over $18, but went as low as about $2.57 a year or so ago at which time he said to load up). He knew quality, saw that it was being pulled down by the rest of the market, and bought INTO the sharp decline. Others he’s clearly said to sell when they had previously been recommended – often as somewhat speculative buys, advertised as such at the time. In short, you’ll get honesty, integrity, and a really top notch team of experts, along with the truly unique philosophy and attitude of Doug Casey. Even at higher prices now (older subscribers are “grandfathered”, knowing what I know, I’d be a subscriber if I had more than just a few thousand to invest in metals and energy-related stocks. Don’t let the “penny stock” nature of several of his recommendations scare you off – this is not a fly-by-night operation. You can track his updates on each recommended stock on the newsletter web site (depending on the particular newsletters to which one subscribes – he has several with different foci). — Oh, my “star” ratings? Two “fours” ONLY because nobody’s perfect. This is one group that ranks near the very top, however.

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T. Tully
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T. Tully
February 8, 2020 6:12 pm
Reply to  bogus1

“Nothing on this site should ever be considered to be personal advice, research or an invitation to buy or sell any securities”.
I’m sorry, but that is exactly what it is.

Ferenc Kulin
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Ferenc Kulin
September 22, 2010 1:39 am

I am doing an internship, I write articles about the gold market, and I need it to read.

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freemind
freemind
October 18, 2010 4:53 pm

Have several of Casey’s newsletters and have been aware of Doug Casey for many years I see no need to reiterate the comments made by “bogus1” since I concur with everything he said.

One caveat to those looking for reliable information & resources. Don’t expect to always get on base but do expect an ocassional homerun. These people appear to know enough about their areas of expertise to get you reliably into the game. The rest is your own due diligence. They are some of the most straight forward people of integrity you will find in the financial news business and ,yes, they will give you a couple of homeruns (which add up nicely over the years and help to effectively wash out the losses).

It was predominately insights from Casey that allowed me to take on a substancial silver position just before the current run up. Now I’ll be watching their silver sell signals.

Casey Research repeatedly warns that if you don’t understand it, chances are high that you shouldn’t be in it at all. Or, if you’re GAMBLING with a part of your assets, as in penny stocks, at least keep your exposure to a minimum.

Two thumbs up for the people and products at Casey Research!

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Theodore
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Theodore
October 19, 2010 8:32 pm

Good Information As Always. Recommended.

Matt R.
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Matt R.
December 8, 2010 10:07 pm

I’ve been a subscriber to the Casey Report for over a year now and find it a pleasure to read. The publication covers a variety of topics – politics, economics, wealth protection, investments – which makes it invaluable, especially all of the data provided.

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Dan
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Dan
January 9, 2011 11:24 pm

I’ve been a paid subscriber to the Casey Report and Big Gold for the past few months but I’m planning on cancelling both subscriptions. Mainly because of price. I think it’s good info for say $100 bucks a year but not several hundred like they charge.

I’ve picked up a few good stock ideas from them for which I’m grateful, but it’s just too much doom and gloom and the same re-hash every month to justify the cost.

Here is the basic jist of what every single newsletter is: The government is out of control and will never stop spending (true), the world economy is going to hell in a handbasket (true…but who knows when), and when the proverbial crap does hit the fan, you better be prepared to get out of Dodge because it’s going to be Armagedon (debatable).

So based on that attitude you can already guess what their stock recomendations are: Long gold and silver, long mining stocks, long commodities, long agriculture, short government bonds, short the dollar, etc, etc.

I do happen to agree with that overall consensus but they are WAY overboard with the fear mongering and I think with the timing as well. Doug Casey is all bunkered up down in Argentina waiting for Armagedon to happen and is warning everyone else to do the same. Maybe he’s right and we’re all going die here in the states. Who knows. I think the real issue at hand though, is that he knows that fear and greed sell like hotcakes and he’s cashing in as much as he can while the getting is good.

If you love the end of the world stuff, you’ll love this newsletter. They’re just a little too extreme and a little too pricey for my taste.

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richard020
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richard020
September 3, 2016 10:54 am
Reply to  Dan

The “when” is always 7 months from now.

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Chad
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Chad
May 16, 2017 6:29 pm
Reply to  Dan

Anyway you can share those PDFs from the Casey Report?

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Loy
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Loy
April 3, 2019 10:11 pm
Reply to  Dan

Thang cue! Very well said.

Joseph B.
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Joseph B.
January 10, 2011 1:09 am

I’ve subscribed to Doug Casey’s products for years and have profited from not only the recommendations but also in learning about libertarian ideas and other things such as where and how to expatriate.

The only other newsletter that I consider better for this line of work is The Dollar Vigilante – and the write of The Dollar Vigilante, Jeff Berwick, says he considers Doug Casey to be like a mentor and it shows!

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Alex
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Alex
February 9, 2011 2:50 am

Really in-depth analysis, superb explanations of what is really going on in the markets, truly perceptive.
However, the performance of the actual recommended stocks has been terrible, and done so much more harm to my portfolio than any other newsletter service. No doubt they’ll bag some winners during the rest of this resource bull market, but of their picks that I still hold from before the financial crisis, several are still down 80/90% (and that’s just the ones that didn’t disappear entirely!!).
So in conclusion, brilliantly written, but beware their risky stock recommendations!

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Frustrated subscriber
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Frustrated subscriber
February 14, 2011 12:58 am

I’m traveling overseas and of course left many of me credit cards home. I had forgotten that cc’s age, and are replaced, and eventually the auto-debit fails, which happened here.-

I gave my sister my new number–but the rep at Casey, before she read it with the new “last numbers” stopped her saying “that card is invalid.” That’s just dumb.

I have written repeatedly simply asking for a phone number that i can send an inexpensive international text and I receive no reply.

C’mon Casey–set up a https secure website to renew, or at a minimum set up a Paypal account–don’t just ignore your customers to death (by the way, I’ve been a customer since 1979 when it was Crisis Investing.

What I don’t like is that for megabucks you get “special buy recommendations” and I cannot help but wonder if Casey Report is the “next fool (theory)” down the line.

I also don’t like that the newsletter keeps pounding you with other newsletters. Crisis Investing was all in one, now you need to buy, Big Gold, International Speculating; The oil/gas one, the “big oil gas,” the “special situtations” and on and on–enough.

I don’t like being locked out of my account due to lazy or incompetent customer service. I’ve given only one star on all categories because I can’t read my subscription, and customer service is either too incompetent, or too lazy to remedy that (and I don’t want to call at $2.50/minute and potentially rack up a big phone bill, just to give them what I have already tried to give them.

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Tim W
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Tim W
June 10, 2011 11:10 am

I subscribed to Casey’s newsletter in 1982-83 when it was Crisis Investing. He was warning of imminent hyperinflation and financial collapse in the 80s. He was bearish on bonds when you could have bought 30 year non callable Treasury Bonds yielding around 11%. He was bullish gold and silver which were in a bear market for 20 years. Ironically, he was bullish on stocks, but for the wrong reasons.

The newsletter was interesting reading, informative and well written even though his overall picture of the economy was off base.

His investment recommendations were very poor. Casey touted 3 Australian gold mining stocks – Kalbara Mining, Jingellic Minerals, & Acorn. He wrote an extensive report that seemed to be very well researched and very convincing that he had really found something great. He even proclaimed Acorn as his Stock of the Year for 1983 and projecting that the stock would go from around $2 to $20. I think it got to $3 or $4 before it crashed. It was later revealed that there was really no substance to these three stocks and they all went to zero. It was all a scam. So much for Casey’s “in depth” research. I’m sure he sold near the top.

Over the years I’ve received some free copies of the current newsletter from Casey to get me to subscribe again. In one of those he was pushing a company called Dragon Pharmaceuticals. It never panned out either. It was finally taken private at 82 cents which was lower than the price you would have bought at if you followed Casey’s advice.

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Dave
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Dave
November 9, 2015 7:01 pm
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We should talk. I learned the Doug Casey 3 Australian gold stocks was a fraud from the start. All about millions of stock options purchased prior to the marketing blitz by Casey and other top gold bug news letter writers and penny stock firms. Amazing scam done offshore over their newsletter clients that became the bag holders!!!

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Newbie with questions
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Newbie with questions
January 24, 2019 5:16 am
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Really, is there any wonder why our economy is the way it is? It’s very sad actually!

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dfiel
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dfiel
August 14, 2015 10:32 pm

I just subscribed as part of a $4.95 teaser. They have pared down the portfolio greatly in recent months, so there are only a few open positions: gold, silver, emerging markets, farming, and shipping. The average position is down by about 15%. I calculated the returns on their closed positions over the year: -4.5% (-75% annualized). There were only four gains over 10%, three of which were options on Euros and gold. The other was a lucky pick of a European ag company.

Overall, I don’t see much prescience or good money management, so I think I will be cancelling the trial.

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wildejamey
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wildejamey
November 17, 2016 11:24 am

In the long term we’re all dead.

Joe
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Joe
December 25, 2016 10:46 am

Honest man

tanglesome
tanglesome
June 8, 2017 3:07 pm

I subscribed to The Casey Report (along with BIG GOLD and their energy newsletter, forget the name now) from 2008-2015. I was initially attracted to it because I’ve liked Doug Casey since hearing him at Freedom Fest in Vegas in like 2003/04, and the writing/analysis was quite good and not overly sales-y until 2014 when (from what I recall) Galland and Olivier and others left, while Casey seemed to let Stansberry and other Agora-type people take the reins and he himself became less involved (or at least that’s what I hope) because the newsletters really suffered in quality and became just very stereotypical hype-trash.

I guess I’m glad that happened because it made me look at how very few of Casey’s recommendations in the end were “double-baggers” (except SLW), good returns of 50%+ (RGLD) or even moderately good returns of 15-20% (HI, KRAFT, BRFS), while the rest (around a dozen) had ill-timed sell recommendations giving me -20% to -60% losses. Not sure if those were pump-and-dump on their part or not, but it was enough for me to cut ’em loose, do my own research, and rely on Stock Gumshoe more as a devil’s advocate.

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rockinchair
rockinchair
November 27, 2017 2:28 pm

I subscribed to this newsletter more for general information than stock picks. I can’t say I’ve been overly impressed with those picks – this newsletter seems to be the avenue to entice you to buy the more expensive newletters . I didn’t go thru that door, and will likely discontinue this one. The economic warnings Casey gives are worth knowing about, but one doesn’t need to keep reading about it.

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Charlotte
Charlotte
December 1, 2017 11:11 am

I wish I had found the GUMSHOE before I wasted money on this. The hype is big to start, the each email you get is trying to sell you the info you thought you had already bought. Casey appears to have his comments occassionaly, but it is usually done by a staffer. It is now tied (not sure at what le el) to the stansberry (I think that is correct spelling, it is the big one with MANY newsletters) so they have your email and flood daily. I took 2 of the original stocks suggested by Casey and they both lost big-time. Don’t wast your money on this one.

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StockMidas
December 1, 2017 11:26 am
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I have come to realize more so everyday – disregard mainstream analysts, Wall Street recommendations, and even MorningStar ratings, due to the inherent conflict of interest between the firms and their particular clientèle. Here is the point:
YOU, are NOT Wall Street’s client.
YOU are the CONSUMER of the products sold FOR Wall Street’s clients.
Major brokerage firms are big business – REALLY big business. As in $1.5 Trillion a year in revenue big. They are incentivized, paid, probably bribed at times to punt stocks against their better judgement of the author at the expense of the poor sod reading their perceived guru-ish predictions. I will refrain from naming some of them, but Ni.. Ho… being right up there …
Fortunately Stock Gumshoe puts paid to some of these outrageous unethical publications …..

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