Here at Capital & Crisis we have one investment philosophy: Looking for value--excellence at the right price--is the only reliable way to build wealth year after year with the least risk. It doesn't change as fads come and go.

Capital & Crisis helps you to find businesses with that value with our critical and unbiased research…and we tell you how to profit from these companies.

Please be aware that we are constantly improving the Web site to make it more user friendly for you. We've made a commitment to bring you the best and the most honest investment advice available anywhere, and we stick by that promise.

Capital & Crisis is a team of analysts and advisors including Christopher Mayer, among others, who are some of the most well known contrarian value investors in the world. The letter focuses on buying good businesses and owning them over the long haul. If you believe, as the Capital & Crisis team does, you ought to stick to the numbers and buy value, then the Capital & Crisis is for you.

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Finding Value For The Long Run

If you want to invest in great companies, sit back and watch 'em run…you've come to the right place. Capital & Crisis is all about finding those great opportunities at great prices.

Believe us - there's money to be made by going against the crowd. So we've created a system, and assembled a team that is second-to-none for exploiting the over-reaction of investors to news affecting stocks and the market in general.

Christopher W. Mayer

Christopher Mayer's contrarian essays have appeared on a number of Web sites and publications, including, The Mises Institute, the Freeman, The Daily Reckoning, GoldEagle.com, LewRockwell.com, FiendBear.com, PrudentBear.com, Grant's Investor and Individual Investor Magazine. His views on financial matters have also been widely quoted, including in the highly regarded Grant's Interest Rate Observer.

Chris began his career in banking, specifically, corporate lending, after earning an MBA with a concentration in finance, He later started writing Capital & Crisis, a monthly newsletter that gave Chris' unique brand of financial commentary a more regular and expanded format.

With an unusual fondness for old books, old investors and old ideas, Chris fits perfectly into the Capital & Crisis mold. He claims a personal library of over 400 books, numerous periodicals, papers and pamphlets, which he brings to bear on understanding the financial world of today.

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