International Man: By now, most people have heard about the World Economic Forum's (WEF) "Great Reset" agenda led by Klaus Schwab.

The WEF sees the COVID pandemic as an opportunity to reshape the economic and social structures of the world.

With the unpleasantness of 2020 and 2021 behind us, what do you think will be the next phase of their global agenda?

Doug Casey: For many years, conspiratorially oriented people have looked askance at the Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg, Bohemian Grove, Concordia, WEF, and similar groups where the rich and powerful people gather to wheel and deal.

Despite my visceral dislike of these people, I actually accepted an invite to Concordia out of curiosity and wrote an article about it. I won't be going back because it's simultaneously boring and disturbing to be in the company of self-important bureaucrats, opportunists, and slimy rent-seekers.

These people predictably make a huge deal about COVID. The pandemic impresses me as about 90% hysteria from a medical point of view. You don't want to get it, obviously, but unless you're old and sick, it appears to be just the flu, especially now that it's burning out, the way viruses do. The average age of decedents is about 80—a fact which is never reported. We've certainly never seen carts going through the streets crying, "Bring out your dead. Bring out your dead." But I personally know people who think it's stalking them like an assassin. The hysteria has mutated into mass psychosis.