the odor of of viacom are watching this saying who is this kennedy? he literally wanted me fired back a second and then backed that i kept my job for three more years is a miracle beyond my understanding. >> host: what you think of their role of american society? is a positive? >> guest: by and large i think our era was very positive and that is one reason i wrote the book because every generation has there venera ease culture happens to have their time in the sun mine was in the '90s and it is such a great contrast with the way media is now. that is one of the reasons so many people come up to me they miss seeing music on tv that there was a purity

about it and the artistry that we took for granted the women were portrayed differently and i wanted to explore those things in a book that is fun that you could take to the beach and that is reading to throw this in the bag and then always to remain pristine. to experience that moment again to remember the time and now get it with some insane detail. >> host: what are you doing now? >> guest: i am a correspondent '04 the john stossel show on fox business and i also have pieces with reason tv also hosted a morning show are 98.seven in las angeles a alternative

music show i interview bands and i get to see young up-and-coming bands how they fight to get attention to break through in a very crowded landscape that is totally possible but i talked to a lot of a lot of the establish ibm's like no doubt, lincoln park, sound garden to see from their point of view how it has changed in how they have to struggle to break through even though they have a catalog of hits over 20 years. >> host: has your politics limited your opportunities in your chosen field? >> guest: there is a limiting factor about that but i have to be true to what i believe. we have a wonderful husband and two beautiful girls he is a retired snow border actually has a manufacturing factory in southern california he makes

snowboards it is so funny to hear my girls talk about going to the factory. he is pretty amazing they are the center of my life and i want them to know that you can be true to who you are a and speaking your own voice and still have a good life. people will always hate you you cannot move on that. >> host: you get stopped and resource today? >> guest: i do. for a variety of reasons a lot of people see me on stossel. they love john stossel and they love his message he is a pure libertarian and a great person and a wonderful mentor. also college-age students see me on the recent videos and then people who are more my aged remember me from ntb

i have the longest conversations with about the good old days and i tell them i just wrote about that. >> host: are there closet conservatives in hollywood? >> guest: definitely. i actually have full organized meetings they get together and talk about ideas sometimes they include libertarian's sometimes they are frustrated thinking they are people pleasers but we know politically they are the most consistent group around. >> host: we have been talking with kennedy, lisa kennedy montgomery, a "the kennedy chronicles" the golden age of mtv through rose-colored glasses" here is the cover. this is booktv on c-span2.

>> host: joining us is doug casey. who are you? >> guest: i am best known as an author but i make my living as a speculator in the marketplace. >> host: what books have you written? >> guest: i wrote to the international man in 1976 a guidebook to the world of the last current year of personal freedom and financial opportunity it became the largest selling books i went there during a war and opened the telephone

book to see what was going on and i called them up and became the media personality. >> host: your book of 1979? >> guest: that was crisis investing writed 1978. subtitle profits opportunities during the great depression in 81 '04 82 with interest rates and gold going over $800 but it did not turn into a depression fortunately but this time 30 years after the fact the economy is much more precarious than it was

in the late '70s. we're in for some very serious times. >> host: white you think it is precarious? >> everything the government is doing it is not the right thing but exactly the opposite and i will go further to say the problem the american economy has the baker is a and industrialist those that create currency regulations, taxes, and they're all very destructive >> host: what about the bit cloyed movement? i am all for it i don't think it will succeed but

bit coin lacks the characteristic of money it has to have a store of bellevue but there is a reason why it is not a good store of the value when aristotle put his finger of backed gave a spot of characteristics durable, a convenient and have a value on an of itself. and bit coin does not have the utility or value of itself and even with the supply of bit coin are in limited because of the little clay and sand be decoyed sandbagging is inflationary. i like the idea. but i will wait for 2.go. >> host: where did you

grow up? out due to start with economics investing? >> i have always been interested in money. i have always been a big reader. i was just drawn to free-market economics because i of the person that doesn't believe the government or people have a right to to treat you as a milk cow because if they can then maybe they could treat you as the beef cow. >> host: where did you grow up? >> guest: chicago i more or less live in argentina at the moment. i have been to 175 countries and lived in 12th. i know logger want to spend significant time in the united states because this will be a shock to most of your listeners but the

progression of america, i don't even call it american it anymore is just another country we are undistinguished we used to be special indifferent and everybody knew it now is just another loaded government running another geographical area. it is turning into a police state very rapidly with the militarization of the police they don't knock on the door anymore it is just a s.w.a.t. brayed the government is completely and totally bankrupt 1.2 trillion dollars 90 percent was purchased by the federal reserve even the tidies to not want to buy it a try to get rid of their dollars.

there is a panic for the exit. >> host: we invited you to talk about the book that has just come out, "totally incorrect" has told to lewis and james. who is he? >> guest: he writes the newsletter for us called the international speculator that follows exploration companies, apollo style section anywhere. >> host: what is a junior resources company? >> guest: looking for gold, nickel, uranium, kobol ds, you name it. 92 naturally occurring elements and we need all of them so they're looking for them. >> host: are you a wealthy man? >> guest: it is relative. yes.

i can do what i want and go where i want. that is all you need although one of the odd things i have got to tell you, as you get older in my case, i want to lasso the less you want to the wealthier you are although the more money flowing into the door at the time that i want less issues have happened when i was a kid. >> host: with "totally incorrect" you recount meeting vice president cheney. >> guest: yes. a sociopath, a psychotic criminal if i have never seen one. there was a lot of fuss. he wanted to be president and was in new orleans. and had an unpleasant conversation with him and

then invited me to a little fund-raiser. so to do the political things dick cheney knight to me you i said i will not shake hands with you i would despise you and everything the you stand for i thought taking a good shot would collapses fragile persona he said why do you say that? i could do a minute on why i said what i said. but for the rest of the 20 minutes he knew it was pointless to try and raise money he would not come over. it was a highlight the right call them the way i see them. i am lucky i was not audited did. >> host: y uc vice president cheney that way? >> guest: he is what we

call a neocon from the war for a state. directly with the structure of war with the iraqi of the afghanistan in the growth of the special operations community burning around the world killing people. he is a very bad man. but most of these people called neocons are dangerous this is one of the things that i find disturbing about these united states about the book called "totally incorrect" or politically incorrect in the old days they used the term politically incorrect a and i thought it was a joke but they really believed that you could be so this is the updated version of "totally

incorrect". >> host: doug casey if you had the chance to be president obama what would you say? >> guest: i would not have anything to say. he is select he acts like he is listening. but he is a disastrous president he is worse than the and baby bush. it is much like an aficionado of ancient history and we have reached the stage we're getting a lot like rolm -- rome after serious they said i am glad he is dead then they got caligula then they got claudius can get much worse? yes. then they had a civil war. i think we are plotzing the path of agent from.

>> host: something going on currently in the u.s. is the bradley manning trial on wikileaks. >> guest: that is shameful. even more shameful or justiciable as what is happening with edward snowden it is absolutely shocking that they had manning locked up in solitary confinement torturing him three years and there is no outrage in the u.s.. as far as edward snowden is concerned, ee shameful he has to run to hide to countries like russia or venezuela that is hardly a beacon of freedom. certainly he cannot stay in the u.s. anymore.

>> host: a continuing theme in "totally incorrect" is the relationship with that gsa. what do you think of them? >> those that go to work, you say where they get the people that joined in the nsa? where do they round these people up? the same type of people from the bottom of society lowlife middle aged people speaking to would drop whenever they we're doing previously to put on a tacky uniform to go to the neighbors 30 laundry and serve a useful purpose in the process. this little bit of power that they have got holding it over others makes your life miserable and withal

bureaucracy once created, it grows. bureaucracies like that, this is true of all of washington you have to kinds of people in the world. those that believe in those the believe enforce that are drawn to the government with the power of the state comes out of the barrel of a gun. it at some point with the people that work for the government for whatever reason they do not want to be there any more. we are also reaching that tipping point in the united

states. >> host: who are your political heroes? >> i don't believe in politics as a way to relate to other human beings is institutionalize a illegalized coercion. but people that i like personally and a decent human being happened to be involved in politics certainly ron paul is decent and i don't know anybody else at this point. he is not even congress at this point any more. >> host: why do you take a ride charities id "totally incorrect"? >> guest: i don't believe it institutionalized charities. i believe it helping people as individuals when i know them and can see the situation. if there is somebody i will

make a loan with the understanding i want the money back because i am not interested in giving them money to help them if nothing else to give it to somebody else and. >> host: responsibility but most of the charities are giant bloated bureaucracies and the people at the top for those with huge salary is so i am opposed to charities and i don't give touche charities i will consider very seriously by don't recommend to give to charities but the ngos even worse especially people running across the

world like busybodies to create chaos. they really want to help the world you should do something constructive and productive van become wealthy this is exactly what i was saying about charity. this is what i said for when a.thousand dollars, that is idiotic if you really want to help, you know, like bill gates giving away billions of dollars to zero charities to do whatever he wants to do the smartest thing would be keep that capital to keep it growing to create wealth but when you give money to a charity generally you fritter away or it dissipates it and pulling it into the wind to destroy your capital instead of giving it he should be easy that capital to create more wealth and that does benefit everybody. >> host: doug casey do you have to put a label on you

contrarian, and our guests guests, libertarian? >> it is funny. i am a libertarian and our guest -- and our guest so-called mac very hard during the summer i lived in aspen in colorado and i have for many years i don't get invited to many parties because i can always to five or 10 minutes and then talk about something important and meaningful or interesting basically it turns into the two things you're not supposed to talk about of religion and politics because i like talking about philosophy but

what is practical and applied philosophy? in economics is so jumbled up with all these conventional and constipated people with the way that they should be. >> host: you refer to your catholicism as cannibalistic? >> yes. i make the joke to grow up in a cannibalistic death cults that is the accurate description but it is not much worse than any other christian religion. at this point it is much less virulent than is long but more so than judea's some fat has gone through

their teething pains but all of these came out of the middle east desert to worship yah way or all lot and i feel bad for though holy ghost nobody ever talks about him. i think they're all the interests fakery persecutions and that does not happen -- happen with the hindus or buddhist or confucian federal have religious wars with each other. because they have the one true god but they will send you to hall. >> host: who are some of your favorite authors? >> i don't know.

most of my reading today is actually either ancient history or science. so when i look at the bookshelf next may bet or library is over represented in those two areas. that is the way it is. >> host: doug casey "totally incorrect" there is a fear barometer. what is that? >> referring to those in the marketplace but as a contrary and the original was correct and two weeks from now i will be in cyprus

because this is a little nonfat how much is it down? we don't trade lot of volume at all but how much from the peak of 2007? nobody does. 98% i think it is a good time to get on the plane to go to cyprus to take a look of there is any value imus find the next berkshire hathaway with the 98% discount. >> what you think about the investor like warren buffett? >> i think he is a genius. but of genius like the idiot savant. he is unbelievably good at what he does to allocate capital but his political ideas, has he been a net

benefit to humanity? that remains to be seen is certainly the fact he has put together $100 billion total market cap is a wonderful thing we should be grateful to allocate capital so wisely but to put it into the wind we may not be any better off also build site -- bill gates impress me but remind me as being autistic. >> host: induce a riyal's diet this point you're not giving your money to charity , it will you spend it all? [laughter] >> guest: i don't have kids. if i was going to leave my money to the and

degeneration i consider doing with the romans did to say just because somebody was your genetic progeny it doesn't mean there was anything better that you look around kids that were old enough you could see who they are for how they have developed and adopt them. so i will leave it to my wife whose very smart imprudent and thinks like i do with a little bit of lot lot, maybe we will see the similarity to reconstitute my body as the 30 year-old. you could maybe do that you are younger than i am. >> host: we're talking to

doug casey, a "totally incorrect" self published? >> guest: i am not sure. i don't think so. it was published by a laissez-faire books and publishing and arms and i don't think so but this is in an interesting distinction because back when my first books were published you had to get a publisher the bigger the better it was harper, in schuster, it was important. there was 50,000 new books published every year but now last year rethink there was 1.2 million new books published so you don't need a publisher any more.

it is almost like a fifth wheel. >> host: doug casey "totally incorrect" the name of his most recent book. this is booktv at freedom fest in mossy angeles. -- loss angeles. >> host: writed your first book? knocking on heaven's door is a path to a better way of death, who was his jeffrey butler? >> my father you were holding up a picture of him and me in a very loving position. a world war ii veteran he lost his arm in the war with amazing that's and built floor to ceiling bookcases for our living room with only one arm and was a professor of history at wesley and it can netiquette and lived a very long and

full and happy and distinguish light. >> host: what were the last couple years of his life like a? >> guest: at 79 he had a devastating stroke but did not die intel 85. added time when his death would have been a mercy and a blessing because he was given a pacemaker one-year after and frankly that his heart kept building while he descended into dimension and a near blindness and misery. and said i am living too long so those last five years were terrible. >> host: when the pacemaker was put in and at age 80, what was the family's plot? >> guest: it was the culmination of ignorance and denial though real conversation with dr. whether or not you do it or the long term

implications or what my father's choices were. the doctor just said he has a slow heartbeats we will put in the pacemaker and the results was that my mother, i talked about this later and she said i was still in denial that somehow he could recover from the stroke. i was the daughter on the far post and quite ignorant about medicine then and i figured it was there decision if i had it to do over again i think i would have been a lot more proactive and would have done more research and understood better what we were up against. >> host: if you had chosen to take out the pacemaker could you? >> it is interesting it would not have to be taken at all flatfooted be disabled with little remote

control so it would be painless killed in the cardiologists association has now cut out a statement saying it is not euthanasia or assisted suicide is moral and legal to have a disabled. and fortunate leaf -- unfortunately that statement came late in the process for us but it is where medicine is groping for answers and does not know how to discuss these questions and maybe as a culture we don't know how to do it yet. >> host: the katy butler what did your parents, what did the end of life care cost? >> guest: the very interesting question and neither had highly expensive deaths may be $80,000 with

my father with a pacemaker or that kind of stuff. my mother very close to the end of her life refused to open heart surgery then she had a heart attack and the doctors said let's do open-heart surgery. she was 84 at that point. if we had done that surgery would have cost to declare about $86,000 though maybe it was 10 or 20,000 because she was a hospice in declined most extraordinary intervention is a we got a lot of social work, the healing, reassurance that we did not get high-tech expensive you title painful interventions. >> host: to people to use of of this possible? >> guest: yes. >> host: why? >> guest: one is that we just have to allow everyone

there choice and their range as they approach their own death. the other reason is we have a terror and ignorance of death up intel 1900 people died randomly throughout the life span and they read books like the art of dying and considered it as part of a spiritual obligation to prepare themselves for their own death so they were on the acceptance and bravery in courage to face your own death and we lost that in the '50s and '60s when we became adept at life-saving. >> host: is death and industry? >> guest: what a question. medicine has become an industry. high-tech fixes matter how expensive can be very, very appropriate in the early stages of life.

but to the end of life, unfortunately we structured the medical system it is profitable for a hospital to put a device into somebody that is inappropriate or prolong their death in the eyes you that is inappropriate for that person. >> host: has medical techniques that had the unscom at what point do the heart, lungs, at what point does that cause it to life? >> guest: that is a really good question. before the 1950's you could not make a heart to keep going without the rest of the body functioning now we can keep any single organ functioning or several at once when a person has no brain or no sense of self or sold or has already fled the

body but yet we are still fixated that skin in the heart beating is life and unfortunately we don't have language to discuss the us and we have blood simple maximum longevity on an altar instead of for shipping true love and true relationships in the importance of bravery to the end of life. so people can have a meaningful death that all these people traumatized. >> host: you write doctors are often insulting with the suggestion to help shape their medical treatment just as surely as the home mortgage deserved deduction for most ownership fear of being sued or feelings of professional failure encourage specialists do hospice care only days before death.

>> guest: sad but true half of the people enter hospice are only there for the last 14 days of their life or less. for example,, and one of colleges that suggest yet another round of feudal chemotherapy will get 6% even if it is 10 or 20,000 but if you have a two-hour conversation with a family that is meaningful and did the band says they think we're at the end of the line and i want to refer you to hospice he gets virtually nothing. so why do we create pathways that reward doctors for doing the wrong thing where they know what the right thing is? it is not a knock on the doctors but why do we put them in such an impossible position?

>> host: so when you talk to doctors what is there reaction? >> guest: a whole range from your mother was right and you did the right thing to saying either i understand how medicine works or the other one is, you don't understand how afraid we are that a family will sue us for wrongful death and that we don't know our pages. people come to the emergency room. we don't know if this is katie butler's family with a clear living well and the cnr my father is 95 but i never discussed the end of his life with him and i want you to keep him alive no matter what. i think i came to understand what a difficult position they are in. there is a phrase and hospitals called the nephew from peoria this is the relative that flies live long distance not involved

in the family care now insists that everything be done to prolong the life even if the family member has a living will that says very clearly did not want extraordinary measures. i have a lot more compassion out for the difficult position we have put them in. >> host: changes in medicare reimbursement structure could help perhaps someday will offer the choice covering up at two years of back home care in exchange for the willingness not to expect medicare to pay for the last ditch $35,000 a defibrillator, etc., etc. . .