The Politicized Economy: A Faustian Bargain With David Galland, Casey Research

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David Walker, former United States Comptroller General from 1998 to 2008, and founder and CEO of the Comeback America Initiative. A vocal critic of profligate federal spending, David Walker has taken his message to major media outlets around the world, appearing in Fortune, Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, CNN and too many more to recount.

Doug Casey, best-selling author and chairman of Casey Research, and a senior editor of its flagship publication, The Casey Report. Over the years, Doug's reputation as something of a "guru" has been greatly enhanced by his successes in spotting life-changing investment opportunities ahead of the crowd – including gold and gold stocks in 1998 and uranium in 2000 – and by warning his readers ahead of serious trouble in the economy, correctly anticipating the bursting of the dot-com and housing bubbles, and of the crisis now gripping the world.

Dr. Lacy Hunt, executive vice-president of Hoisington Investment Management Company (HIMCO), a top-performing bond fund firm with over $5.8 billion under management. Dr. Hunt previously served as the chief US economist for the HSBC Group, one of the world's largest banks, and as senior economist for the Dallas Fed. Voted the most popular presenter at the last Casey Summit, we invited Dr. Hunt back to update his analysis of the economy (he is already hard at work on his presentation) and to engage in an on-stage exchange of views with...

G. Edward Griffin, documentary film producer and author of the best-selling book on the founding of the Federal Reserve Bank, The Creature from Jekyll Island. Mr. Griffin is a recipient of the coveted Telly Award for excellence in television production, the creator of the Reality Zone Audio Archives, and is president of American Media, a publishing and video production company in Southern California.

Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett, former senior strategic researcher and professor in the Warfare Analysis & Research Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, US Naval War College, Newport, RI, where he taught and served in a senior advisory role with military and civilian leaders in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, Central Command, Special Operations Command and Joint Forces Command. Dr. Barnett is the author of The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century. In Carlsbad he'll discuss Geopolitics: Today, Tomorrow.

Bud Conrad, chief economist of Casey Research and a senior editor of The Casey Report, will once again share his latest findings and analysis on the powerful forces now driving the global economy and investment markets.

Peter Schweizer, best-selling author of Throw Them All Out, is the William J. Casey Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has also served as a member of the Ultraterrorism Study Group at the US government's Sandia National Laboratories. His work has been featured on CBS' 60 Minutes and Newsweek.

Eric Sprott has over 35 years of experience in the investment industry and has established a reputation as one of Canada's most highly regarded asset managers. He is founder and CEO of Sprott Asset Management LP in Toronto, where he manages over US$3 billion in assets spread among two long-only mutual funds and Sprott's flagship long/short equity hedge fund strategy. For the Carlsbad Summit, we are very pleased to once again welcome Sprott, Inc. as co-hosts.

Donald Coxe has more than 39 years of institutional investment experience in Canada and the US. He is Strategy Advisor to BMO Financial Group with $500 billion under management.

From his office in Chicago, Don heads up the Global Commodity Strategy investment management team – a collaboration of Coxe Advisors and Harris Investments – to create and market commodity-oriented solutions for investors. He is advisor to the Coxe Commodity Strategy Fund and the Coxe Global Agribusiness Income Fund in Canada, and the Virtus Global Commodity Stock fund in the US.

Mr. Coxe has consistently been named as a top portfolio strategist by Brendan Wood International; in 2011, he was awarded a lifetime achievement award and he was ranked number one in the 2007, 2008, and 2009 surveys.

John Mauldin, best-selling author and Chairman of Mauldin Economics, publishers of the wildly popular Thoughts from the Frontline and Outside the Box with a combined circulation of over 1 million readers, and has just launched a new publication, Yield Shark, aimed at dividend investors. With a Rolodex that includes many of the top minds in the financial industry, John is a great resource for understanding the current mindset of the movers and shakers behind the scenes at some of the world's largest money management firms.

Karl Denninger, former CEO of MCSNet, a regional Chicago-area networking and Internet company. He has been a full-time trader since 1998, author of The Market Ticker, a daily market commentary, and operator of the Market Ticker Forums, an online trading community, both since 2007. Mr. Denninger received the 2008 Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award for Grassroots Journalism for his coverage of the 2008 market meltdown.

David Webb is a Sweden-based hedge fund manager and founder of Origin Investments, AB. You may have never heard of him, but in the hedge fund world Webb is considered something of a phenomenon – thanks to his exceptional track record of using neutral long/short equity strategies to profit even through the most challenging markets, producing a cumulative return of 258% between September 1, 1998, and November 9, 2002, the period leading up to and including the dot-com crash. Discussing his performance after markets crashed following 9/11, the Hedge Funds Review said, "The recent terrorist attacks, which created the single worst week in the history of the US equity markets, didn't take David Webb out of his game. The US equity markets might appear to be in a state of endless free-fall, leaving ordinary investors with their incredibly shrinking portfolios, but don't expect to see a frown on the face of Webb. So far this year, Webb has seen the $1bn hedge fund that he manages gain a whopping 40%. And this comes on the heels of a 56% gain last year." David will be flying in from Sweden to discuss the paradigm collapse he sees ahead, and how to invest.

Bob Hoye is the chief financial strategist of Institutional Advisors. He is widely recognized for his model-based approach to forecasting that is informed by his thorough review of the highly volatile conclusions of five previous new financial eras. In his work, he found that key financial sectors, such as the stock market or the yield curve, each recorded similar behavior patterns through each previous era of great financial booms. At the Carlsbad Summit, Bob will share his findings based on these patterns as a guide to what's next.

Rick Rule, the founder of Global Resource Investments, which is now part of the Sprott Group of Companies, is widely considered one of the world's most knowledgeable – and successful – natural-resource investors. He is a leading investor specializing in mining, energy, water, forest products and agriculture.

Louis James is Casey Research's globe-trotting chief metals & mining investment strategist and the editor of Casey International Speculator. In Carlsbad, he'll share his latest findings and best picks from recent visits to some of the most prospective resource areas around the world.

Dominick Graziano is one of the founding members of the "Jelly Donut Brotherhood" – a network of regular Casey Summit participants who work together to evaluate the specific recommendations of the faculty and create portfolio plans. As a technical analyst, Dominick has developed a number of proven strategies to spot opportunities and reduce portfolio risks that he will share with the broader group in Carlsbad.

Mark Leibovit began his, thus far, 35 year career in the financial industry as a market maker on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. His specialty is Volume Analysis and his proprietary Leibovit Volume Reversal Indicator is well known for forecasting accurate signals of trend direction and reversals in the equity, metals and futures markets. Mr. Leibovit is currently Timer Digest's #2 Gold Market Timer for 2011 and has also been named the #1 Gold Market Timer for the 5 year period ending in 2010..

Alex Daley is the chief technology investment strategist for Casey Research and the editor of our Casey Extraordinary Technology service. With the continued exponential gains in computational power transforming the world before our eyes, few investment sectors offer greater upside than technology, a topic that few people know more about than Alex Daley. In Carlsbad, Alex will share his favorite investments in technologies that are changing the world and making investors rich in the process.

There will be a number of additional faculty members, which we will be announced in the coming weeks. And - to ensure you get all of your questions answered about navigating the politicized economy, as well as expert insights into the best ways to invest in it - there will also be...

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Special Investment Panels

  • Navigating the Politicized Economy – This panel, which will feature Lacy Hunt, Don Coxe, Bob Hoye, Eric Sprott, David Webb, and Terry Coxon, is tasked with identifying the specific options the government is likely to take in order to try to kick the can down the road, and the common sense actions that every investor can take to structure a bullet-proof portfolio;
  • Alternative Investments, moderated by Alex Daley will focus on a number of bold new ways to profit outside of traditional stocks - or even commodity markets;
  • Casey's Best of the Best Panel, a panel of senior Casey Research analysts including Louis James, Marin Katusa, Alex Daley, Jeff Clark and Dan Steinhart on their best-of-the-best recommendations (this one panel alone should pay for the conference many times over), and;

Plus, as always, you'll find the unique opportunity to network with other attendees and with senior executives of some of our favorite companies in the "Map Room," at cocktail receptions, and at a gala banquet.

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Before signing off, a closing word about a couple of the less obvious but very tangible benefits of attending these Summits that may even transcend the excellent program and faculty.

One of those benefits is the opportunity to step away from your daily routine and concentrate intensely and with few distractions on matters that are of extreme importance to your future and the future of your family and friends.

As I probably don't need to tell you, the global economy is teetering on the edge of a precipice, with governments the world over scrambling to keep their houses of cards from falling over. Their potential, and probable, policy actions will have very real consequences for us all – giving rise to very serious threats to savings built up over a lifetime. As you will hear in Carlsbad, correctly anticipating their political moves can be very rewarding for the informed investor. Dedicating just a few days out of the 365 in a year to understanding the economy and investment markets doesn't just make good sense, it is essential.

The second benefit has to do with networking. Earlier, I mentioned the Jelly Donut Brotherhood. Despite the humorous name, this and a number of similar groups of attendees are invaluable as they allow the participants to share ideas and resources between themselves and with members of the faculty long after the three days of the event.

To name just one example of how this networking can provide benefits well above the norm, people often ask us how they can get into the most prospective early-stage deals. Well, a good amount of those invitations come about through personal contacts with people in the know. And you will meet a lot of people in the know at the Carlsbad Summit.

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As an added benefit, we were able to negotiate very advantageous room rates for a limited block of rooms at the beautiful Park Hyatt Aviara Resort in Carlsbad – one of our favorite Summit venues. Again, however, when they are gone, they are gone.

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