Expat Expense: Brace Yourselves
September 1, 2014 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher Immigration is still quite the hot topic in the United States, but so is EMIGRATION. Bobby did a piece on this not that long ago, discussing the economic impacts of both. Ultimately, the preponderance of evidence supports two facts: 1. Immigrants (legal or otherwise) provide MORE benefits than […]
Spain Raids Social Security Fund. Is Portugal Next?
August 29,2014 By: Gordon Haave, Managing Director at Agora Trust, Ltd. In my article last week, “Cypriot-Style Bail-in: Be Ready”, I discussed last year’s confiscation of a portion of depositors’ accounts in Cyprus. It hasn’t gotten that bad yet in Spain, but Using Google Translate on the Spanish website El Economista we learn that: “The […]
The American Stigma
August 25, 2014 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher These are some sad times… some sad and divided times. People are turning on one another over everything from race and religion to socio-economic status. Governments are waging wars against not just foreign governments, but their own citizens resulting in standoffs in suburban streets! And businesses are turning […]
Cypriot-Style Bail-In: Be Ready!
August 22, 2014 By: Gordon Haave, Managing Director of Agora Trust LLC Cyprus recently completed a bank bail-in for its troubled financial system. The terms are as follows: The German government is contributing 13 billion euros to help bail out Cyprus bankers and their Russian clients. What did Cyprus kick in? As part of the […]
What Are You Waiting For?
August 18, 2014 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher The class warriors are growing in numbers and upping their decibels as the US economy continues to suffer. Regardless of what the media says, or the contrived reports from the White House indicate, individuals are feeling the burn of reality. Little short term charts shown out of context […]
The “I”mmigrants vs. The “E”migrants
August 15, 2014 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director at GWP Two days ago I returned from a cruise through the Baltic Sea. On September 1st, I boarded the ship in Amsterdam for an 8 day journey throughout the Baltics with stops in Warnemunde – Germany, Tallinn – Estonia, St Petersburg – Russia, and Helsinki – Finland (I […]
“Economic Patriotism”
August 11th, 2014 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher Taxation has transitioned from being a means of providing for basic services and needs of the country into a punitive measure to socially engineer the people and their businesses. Those who disagree are marked as being economically unpatriotic. Not that long ago, I wrote about companies that are expatriating… or […]
(Im)Migration: It’s Just Moving
August 4, 2014 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher Two issues seem to be dominating the internet this past week or so: Immigration and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While the former has more to do with immediate economic issues in the United States, the latter will send me off the deep end and couldn’t be covered in a […]
