Chapter 7
Doug Casey on the Education of a Speculator (Part Two)
June 2, 2010
Louis: So what did you do after cashing in, in the 1980s?
Doug: That’s when I started getting into the mining stocks you now cover. I liked their incredible volatility. But it took me quite a while to really understand the way the game was played. Even though the third thing I wanted to be when I was a kid was a geologist, it took me years to get geologically active, so to speak. But no regrets. It was a great time to get into the field, because there were some fantastic gold stock runs in the 1980s, right up to the Bre-X scandal in 1996.
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