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Doug Casey's TakeAuthor: Matthew Smith
Best-selling author, world-renowned speculator, and libertarian philosopher Doug Casey has garnered a well-earned reputation for his controversial insights into politics, economics, and investment markets. Doug literally wrote the book on profiting from periods of economic turmoil. *Crisis Investing* spent weeks as #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and became the best-selling financial book of 1980. He has been a featured guest on hundreds of radio and TV shows, including David Letterman, Merv Griffin, Charlie Rose, Phil Donahue, Regis Philbin, Maury Povich, NBC News, and CNN; has been the topic of numerous features in periodicals such as Time, Forbes, People, and the Washington Post; and is a regular keynote speaker. Language: en Genres: Business, Investing, News, Politics Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Skynet, The city of London & More
Episode 433
Friday, 13 March, 2026
Find us at www.crisisinvesting.com Doug and Matt discuss a Palantir Maven Smart System demo that fuses multiple military data feeds into one targeting workflow, likening it to "Skynet" and warning that removing the final human approval is near. They cover Anthropic's stance on not enabling "evil" uses versus dependence on government contracts, and debate whether massive AI data center spending could become stranded as models advance quickly and projects like "Stargate" fall apart. Member questions address biometric border expansion and the end of travel privacy, lab-grown/transmuted gold and future supply from seawater, kelp, and asteroids, Cuba's likely collapse and negotiations with the U.S., AI data center local costs, offshore gold storage and impending FX controls, City of London conspiracy claims, portfolio implications of Iran-related oil disruptions, gold miners vs juniors, broker access to Canada, stop-loss risks, Uruguay/Argentina as safer regions, and tech/nanotech as hardest to analyze. 00:00 Palantir Skynet Demo 04:24 Anthropic vs Pentagon 06:25 AI Data Center Bubble 10:19 Buenos Aires Round Table 12:59 Tourism Overcrowding 16:00 Air Travel Breaking Down 19:33 Biometrics and Travel Privacy 23:30 Lab Grown Gold Explained 25:54 Cuba Next on the List 28:17 Local Costs of Data Centers 30:04 Data Center Bubble 30:38 Offshore Gold Storage 32:44 City of London Myths 36:18 Oil Stocks and War 38:21 Gold Miners Strategy 41:42 Accessing Canadian Stocks 43:10 Stop Loss Debate 46:05 Uruguay as Safe Haven 49:16 Israel Iran Motives 53:07 Hardest Stocks to Analyze 55:05 Wealth Transfer Prep 56:35 Wrap Up and Next Week
