Cheney. Joining us on booktv is doug casey. Who are you . I guess im best known as an author, but ive made my living as a speculator in the marketplace. Thats probably a fair answer. What books have you written . I wrote a book in 1976 called international man. It was a guide book to the world last frontier. A personal freedom of financial opportunity. It became the largest selling book in the history of row a couple of years later. I went there during the war, i do what i always do in these places opened up the telephone book and there were two publishers at the time, i called them up and got along with one and became a television and media personality for awhile. Your book in 1979 . That was crisis investing. It was subtitled project and opportunity in the coming Great Depression things got nasty, as you may recall in 81, 82 with 50 and 60 Interest Rates and gold going to over 8 00 and so forth. It didnt turn to a depression, fortunately. This time thirty years after the fact, the ec
70,000 People Killed in the mexican drug wars which he has covered extensively. This talk was held at the Meadows Museum in Southern Methodist university. Its about an hour. [applause] very good, thank you very much for that opening, and welcome to all of you. We are looking forward to spending the next hour with you here. I thought id start by expanding just a little bit on the introductions of our two distinguished panelists here, and then well move the conversation through some areas of specific topic, and then well open it up to questions so i think you are given a blue card as you came into the room. As you think of questions, please write them down, pass them to the end, and some folks will come by and bring them here, and well reserve the last portion of the meeting for questions. Let me startly telling you just a little bit more about alfredo. Theres several thicks you know about him, particularly, if you read the book, that he was born in mexico where his umbilical card is sti