Future of Finance, I'm joined by Rick Rule, who began his career in the securities business in 1974

and has been principally involved in the natural resource security investments ever since.

He's an astute analyst and highly successful resource sector investor who's financed numerous

exploration and mining companies over his 45-year career.

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Well, Rick, I've been really looking forward to our talk. And I wanted to start off by asking

about investing internationally. You know, some people only feel comfortable investing, you know,

in the domestic jurisdictions, but there are these other commodities, other opportunities that

are abroad. So I was just wanted to get

your perspective on which countries or regions you might think are overlooked or perhaps just have a lot of

long-term potential. Well, I think to start with an overview, which is to say that the world is a very

big place. And to the extent that you confine yourself to the United States,

you are confining yourself to a market that's only 23% of the world's savings and investment assets.

It's a market that's familiar to us, but on the one hand, not going outside the United States,

deprives yourself of more than 75% of the

world's economic activity, it also exposes you to risk. My friend Doug Casey in a slightly

off-color remark, but once said that your assets, your passport, and your ass ought to be in

three different domiciles. And I think that there's some intelligence to that.

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