The Tom Woods Show, episode 770.

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Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. Doug Casey is finally with us.

Doug Casey is the famed international investor.

He is the founder and chairman of Casey Research. He's the author of, well, countless articles over the years about the economy, about investing. He's written many books. His book Crisis Investing is the greatest selling investment book of all time, and he's out with another book of which he is the co-author, Speculator, a brand new novel. Doug, welcome back to the show.

Tom, it is a pleasure to talk to you. It's great to talk to you because of this particular, this new project

you have. You've co-authored a novel, which is a new thing for you. I'm reasonably sure. It's

called Speculator. And it is getting rave reviews. I was just part of the reason that we've

postponed this discussion was that I was on a cruise a week or so ago,

and I had at least two people on that cruise who were reading speculator and raving about it.

So I thought, all right, well, doggone it, we are definitely going to have a conversation about this.

All right. Let's just get this right out of the way.

What makes a guy like Doug Casey who writes all kinds of investment stuff,

newsletters, books turn to fiction? Well, nobody wants to be a one-trick pony. And that's why I

thought I'd do fiction. And you've got to recall, and I'm sure you do that, although Anne Rand did

some fantastic non nonfiction books,

she became famous for her fiction books, and she sold many, many times more fiction books

than she did nonfiction. And also, in my case, I've got to say, there are many things that you can say in fiction

that you really cannot or perhaps even dare not say in nonfiction.

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