Excerpt from The Casey Report Volume II, Issue 6 / June 2009  

Into the Fourth Turning
An interview with Neil Howe
Doug Casey first brought Neil Howe to my attention some years ago, when he told me about The Fourth Turning, the prescient book that Neil had written with William Strauss in 1997.

The work, which was a summary of the work the two had done to that point on generational archetypes and the cyclical patterns created by these archetypes, was a real eye-opener to me at the time. One of Howe and Strauss' key findings from their research was that while many people tend to think of history as a time line that stretches backwards to the first scribbling of human history, and forward into an unknowable future, the reality is closer to a repeating cycle. To use an entire apt analogy, history follows a discernible pattern very similar to that of the seasons.

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia - Media Release  19^th of May 2009 

Great Southern fiasco should be included in Pecora Commission

Managed Investment Schemes (MIS) such as Great Southern and Timbercorp should be included in a Pecora Commission into corruption and possible criminality in the financial system, demanded Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood today.

Great Southern has collapsed into administration with $700 million in debt, and owing 43,000 investors as much as $4 billion; Timbercorp, with 18,000 investors, went into administration on 23rd of April with $903 million in debt.