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The Deep State

By: Doug Casey | Fri, Oct 9, 2015
Introduction by Nick Giambruno
Master speculator and economic expert Doug Casey believes a global financial crisis is just around the corner, which
will result in what he has termed the "Greater Depression"...
This essay originally appeared in The Casey Report. In it, Doug details a hidden but powerful force known as the
"deep state" that's ruining the country.
Whether you agree with his views or not, I'm sure this will be one of the most educational - and most entertaining pieces you read this year...
Until next time,
Nick Giambruno

The Deep State - by Doug Casey

I'd like to address some aspects of the Greater Depression in this essay.
I'm here to tell you that the inevitable became reality in 2008. We've had an interlude over the last few years financed
by trillions of new currency units.
However, the economic clock on the wall is reading the same time as it was in 2007, and the Black Horsemen of your
worst financial nightmares are about to again crash through the doors and end the party. And this time, they won't be
riding children's ponies, but armored Percherons.
To refresh your memory, let me recount what a depression is.
The best general definition is: A period of time when most people's standard of living drops significantly. By that
definition, the Greater Depression started in 2008, although historians may someday say it began in 1971, when real
wages started falling.
It's also a period of time when distortions and misallocations of capital are liquidated, and when the business cycle,
which is caused exclusively by currency debasement, also known as inflation, climaxes. That results in high
unemployment, business failures, uncompleted construction, bond defaults, stock market crashes, and the like.
Fortunately, for those who benefit from the status quo, and members of something called the Deep State, the trillions
of new currency units delayed the liquidation. But they also ensured it will now happen on a much grander scale.
The Deep State is an extremely powerful network that controls nearly everything around you. You won't read about it
in the news because it controls the news. Politicians won't talk about it publicly. That would be like a mobster
discussing murder and robbery on the 6 o'clock news. You could say the Deep State is hidden, but it's only hidden in
plain sight.
The Deep State is the source of every negative thing that's happening right now. To survive the coming rough times,

it's essential for you to know what it's all about.

The State
Now, what causes economic problems? With the exception of natural events like fires, floods, and earthquakes,
they're all caused directly and indirectly by the State, through its wars, taxes, regulations, and inflation.
Yes, yes, I know this is an oversimplification, that human nature is really at fault, and the institution of the State is only
a mass dramatization of the psychological aberrations and demons that lie within us all. But we don't have time to go
all the way down the rabbit hole, so let's just talk about the proximate rather than the ultimate causes of the Greater
Depression. And here, I want to talk about the nature of the State, in general, and then something called the Deep
State, in particular.
A key takeaway, and I emphasize that because I expect it to otherwise bounce off the programmed psyches of most
people, is that the very idea of the State itself is poisonous, evil, and intrinsically destructive. But, like so many bad
ideas, people have come to assume it's part of the cosmic firmament, when it's really just a monstrous scam. It's a
fraud, like your belief that you have a right to free speech because of the First Amendment, or a right to be armed
because of the Second Amendment. No, you don't. The U.S. Constitution is just an arbitrary piece of paper...entirely
apart from the fact the whole thing is now just a dead letter. You have a right to free speech and to be armed because
they're necessary parts of being a free person, not because of what a political document says.
Even though the essence of the State is coercion, people have been taught to love and respect it. Most people think
of the State in the quaint light of a grade school civics book. They think it has something to do with "We the People"
electing a Jimmy Stewart character to represent them. That ideal has always been a pernicious fiction, because it
idealizes, sanitizes, and legitimizes an intrinsically evil and destructive institution, which is based on force. As Mao
once said, political power comes out of the barrel of a gun. But things have gone far beyond that. We're now in the
Deep State.
The concept of the Deep State originated in Turkey, which is appropriate, since it's the heir to the totally corrupt
Byzantine and Ottoman empires. And in the best Byzantine manner, the Deep State has insinuated itself throughout
the fabric of what once was America. Its tendrils reach from Washington down to every part of civil society. Like a
metastasized cancer, it can no longer be easily eradicated.
I used to joke that there was nothing wrong with Washington that 10 megatons on the capital couldn't cure. But I don't
say that anymore. Partially because it's too dangerous, but mainly because it's now untrue. What's now needed is 10
megatons on the capital, and four more bursts in a quadrant 10 miles out.
In many ways, Washington models itself after another city with a Deep State, ancient Rome. Here's how a Victorian
freethinker, Winwood Reade, accurately described it:

Rome lived upon its principal till ruin stared it in the face. Industry is the only true source of wealth, and
there was no industry in Rome. By day the Ostia road was crowded with carts and muleteers, carrying
to the great city the silks and spices of the East, the marble of Asia Minor, the timber of the Atlas, the
grain of Africa and Egypt; and the carts brought out nothing but loads of dung. That was their return
cargo.

The Deep State controls the political and economic essence of the U.S. This is much more than observing that there's
no real difference between the left and right wings of the Demopublican Party. It's well known by anyone with any
sense (that is, by everybody except the average voter) that although the Republicans say they believe in economic

freedom (but don't), they definitely don't believe in social freedom. And the Democrats say they believe in social
freedom (but don't), but they definitely don't believe in economic freedom.

Who Is Part of the Deep State?

The American Deep State is a real, but informal, structure that has arisen to not just profit from, but control, the State.
The Deep State has a life of its own, like the government itself. It's composed of top-echelon employees of a dozen
Praetorian agencies, like the FBI, CIA, and NSA...top generals, admirals, and other military operatives...long-term
congressmen and senators...and directors of important regulatory agencies.
But Deep State is much broader than just the government. It includes the heads of major corporations, all of whom
are heavily involved in selling to the State and enabling it. That absolutely includes Silicon Valley, although those guys
at least have a sense of humor, evidenced by their "Don't Be Evil" motto. It also includes all the top people in the Fed,
and the heads of all the major banks, brokers, and insurers. Add the presidents and many professors at top
universities, which act as Deep State recruiting centers...all the top media figures, of course...and many regulars at
things like Bohemian Grove and the Council on Foreign Relations. They epitomize the status quo, held together by
power, money, and propaganda.
Altogether, I'll guess these people number a thousand or so. You might analogize the structure of the Deep State with
a huge pack of dogs. The people I've just described are the top dogs.
But there are hundreds of thousands more who aren't at the nexus, but who directly depend on them, have
considerable clout, and support the Deep State because it supports them. This includes many of the wealthy,
especially those who got that way thanks to their State connections...the 1.5 million people who have top secret
clearances (that's a shocking, but accurate, number)... plus top players in organized crime, especially the illegal drug
business, little of which would exist without the State. Plus mid-level types in the police and military, corporations, and
non-governmental organizations.
These are what you might call the running dogs.
Beyond that are the scores and scores of millions who depend on things remaining the way they are. Like the 50%plus of Americans who are net recipients of benefits from the State...the 60 million on Social Security...the 66 million
on Medicaid...the 50 million on food stamps...the many millions on hundreds of other programs... the 23 million
government employees and most of their families. In fact, let's include the many millions of average Joes and Janes
who are just getting by.
You might call this level of people, the vast majority of the population, whipped dogs. They both love and fear their
master, they'll do as they're told, and they'll roll over on their backs and wet themselves if confronted by a top dog or
running dog who feels they're out of line. These three types of dogs make up the vast majority of the U.S. population. I
trust you aren't among them. I consider myself a Lone Wolf in this context and hope you are, too. Unfortunately,
however, dogs are enemies of wolves, and tend to hunt them down.
The Deep State is destructive, but it's great for the people in it. And, like any living organism, its prime directive is:
Survive! It survives by indoctrinating the fiction that it's both good and necessary. However, it's a parasite that
promotes the ridiculous notion that everyone can live at the expense of society.
Is it a conspiracy, headed by a man stroking a white cat? I think not. I find it's hard enough to get a bunch of friends to
agree on what movie to see, much less a bunch of power-hungry miscreants bent on running everyone's lives. But,
on the other hand, the top dogs all know each other, went to the same schools, belong to the same clubs, socialize,
and, most important, have common interests, values, and philosophies.

The American Deep State rotates around the Washington Beltway. It imports America's wealth as tax revenue. A lot of
that wealth is consumed there by useless mouths. And then, it exports things that reinforce the Deep State, including
wars, fiat currency, and destructive policies. This is unsustainable simply because nothing of value comes out of the
city.

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The article was originally published at internationalman.com

Author: Doug Casey

Doug Casey
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Doug Casey is a highly respected author, publisher and professional investor who graduated from
Georgetown University in 1968.
Doug literally wrote the book on profiting from periods of economic turmoil: his book Crisis
Investing spent multiple weeks as #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and became the bestselling financial book of 1980 with 438,640 copies sold; surpassing big-caliber names, like Free to
Choose by Milton Friedman, The Real War by Richard Nixon, and Cosmos by Carl Sagan.
Then Doug broke the record with his next book, Strategic Investing, by receiving the largest
advance ever paid for a financial book at the time. Interestingly enough, Doug's book The International Man was the
most sold book in the history of Rhodesia.
He has been a featured guest on hundreds of radio and TV shows, including David Letterman, Merv Griffin, Charlie
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Doug, who divides his time between homes in Aspen, Colorado; Auckland, New Zealand; and Salta, Argentina, has
written newsletters and alert services for sophisticated investors for over 28 years. Doug has lived in 10 countries and
visited over 175.
In addition to having served as a trustee on the Board of Governors of Washington College and Northwoods
University, Doug has been a director and advisor to nine different financial corporations.
Doug is widely respected as one of the preeminent authorities on "rational speculation," especially in the high-

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