DOUG CASEY is an accomplished author, publisher, and professional investor. His book Crisis Investing spent multiple weeks as #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and became the bestselling financial book of 1980. He has been a featured guest on hundreds of radio and TV shows and has been the topic of numerous features in publications such as Time, Forbes, People, and the Washington Post. Doug is widely respected as a preeminent authority on ""rational speculation,"" especially in the high-potential natural resource sector.