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Casey was born and raised in the county of Australia where he lived for much of his earlier life. He grew up in the city of Perth. He is a graduate of John XXIII College and graduated in 1984.
Casey attended a number of universities in his high-education as a young man in Australia. He first attended the The University of Western Australia where he received his Bachelor of Commerce degree in Business where he graduated in 1987. He then attended Curtin University of Technology where he received his graduate M.A. degree in Journalism in 1991.
From 1993 to 1994, he attended Cornell University where he received his Master of Arts of English in Asian studies.
After his college experience and receiving his degrees, he spent most of the 1990s involved in several publications around the world where he wrote and covered news related to currencies, bonds, equities and economic policy.
He worked for AFX News and The West Australian. For both publications, he covered news throughout Australia and Jakarta.
While working for the Dow Jones, he was the special writer and editor for more than a decade. He became the Bureau Chief in Argentina. He acted as a Journalist, editorial, administrative, and also a Wall Street Journal correspondent.
Besides being a correspondent for WSJ for many years, he was also the Senior Columnist for about two years. He wrote a weekly column on global financial and economic affairs for various WSJ and Dow Jones platforms. He was also the lead and coordinating editor responsible for a published daily newsletter on economic and political developments around the world. He contributes to WSJ's Moneybeat blog and regularly hosted the morning News Hub, one of WSJ Live's daily live video shows. In this and other roles, he has also worked as a moderator of panels and public speaker and am frequently interviewed for outside local and international television and radio programs.
Che's Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image (Vintage, 2009). About the cult of Alberto Korda's famous photo of Che Guevara; one of NY Times critic Michiko Kakutani's top 10 pics in 2009. (Related project: the acclaimed documentary, Chevolution.)
The Unfair Trade: How Our Broken Global Financial System Destroys The Middle Class (Crown, 2012). On the human consequences of a dysfunctional world financial system, a travelogue through our messed-up global economy.
The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order. (St. Martin's Press, 2015) Co-authored with Paul Vigna, it explains why we really, really need to pay attention to bitcoin and blockchain technology.
The Social Organism: A Radical Understanding of Social Media to Transform Your Business and Life. (Hachette, Nov. 15, 2016). Co-author: Oliver Luckett. To deal with social media's disruption to our lives, view it as a biological system.
His most recent book is The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and The Future of Everything, which he co-wrote with Paul Vigna.
He is an advisor for The Agentic Group where he advises governments and businesses on the deployment of digital currency and blockchain technologies as a way to build the sustainable, digital economic models of the future. He is also engaged in recruiting and growing Agentic's consortium of startups and other companies that will come together in constructive, collaborative engagements to deploy that technology across multiple, interrelated applications in order to achieve those transformative goals.
He is an advisor for Procivis AG in Zurich, Switzerland. He is also an advisor for CoinDesk.
He is currently the senior advisor or "Digital Currency Initiate" for MIT Media Lab.
