doug casey joins us from vancouver where he's there for a gore financial symposium he's founder and publisher of casey research and author of books including crisis investing opportunities and profits in the coming great depression and we're so lucky to have him thank you so much for being on the show were inspired pleasure and thank you for it's really my pleasure so i just set up a couple of reference points that i've heard you name in interviews that the late fifty's and sixty's with the one nine hundred fifty nine cadillac is symbolic nine hundred seventy one when nixon closed the gold window so on a day like today when g.d.p. numbers come out and people are evaluating where the u.s. is in terms of an economic recovery where do you see it and when do you see a pivotal moment in the u.s. economy looking at kind of these markers that you've laid out. well there are a lot of places where you can start. but. the average standard of living. after taxes after inflation in real terms of the average american worker has actually been going down flat to going down since the early one nine hundred s