Crisis & Aftermath
November 16, 2015 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP The 5th largest economy in the world and 2nd largest economy in Europe, how France handles the recent events will be critical to EU health. It’s true, life doesn’t come with a “user manual”. We are all pretty much winging it. Some of us may have […]
US Debt Ceiling: A Blank Check for Congress
November 9, 2015 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP Imagine US spending represented as archery. The budget is the target, and coming in under budget is the bulls-eye. The safest place on that field would be the target. Have you ever had someone in your family or your circle of friends who always had some […]
Cashless & Debased
November 2, 2015 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP We’ve touched on the issue of negative interest rates a few times on this site: “The People’s QE” and “The USD is Going from Worthless to Imaginary”. It is going from a scary prospect to a dismal reality. It basically amounts to a monetary ultimatum: either […]
Out With the Old AND With the New
October 26, 2015 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP Through most of school, many of us were taught American history portrayed through a slightly over-romanticized lens. Born out of the bloody battle fields of the New World, was the Great Experiment: a noble new country won on the backs of the common man under the […]
What’s a Money Market Mutual Fund and Why Get One?
October 22, 2015 By: Gordon Haave, Managing Director Agora Trust He thought it was the perfect crime. In fact, he didn’t think there would even be any victims. Curtis De Young, the founder and CEO of American Pension Services in Riverton, Utah thought he could use a staggering $24 million of customer cash to make […]
A State of Control
October 19, 2015 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP There are quite a few articles on our site that discuss the burdens placed on individuals, businesses, and full industries by the government. Back when we discussed Edward Snowden’s revelations and the various US spy programs, it became all too clear that these programs were not […]
Government: Over Promises, Under Delivers
October 12, 2015 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP Ever hear, “Ignorance of the law is not an excuse to violate it,” or some derivative of that? While societal laws are often an arbitrary moving target, the laws of economics are about as clear as the laws of physics. They can only be bent for […]
The “People’s QE”
October 5, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher While everyone is squawking over gun control, monetary policies are coming to a head… on a global scale. Indeed while the global markets lost $10 Trillion in value over the last three months, we have basic idiots eagerly welcoming all things Pumpkin Spice back to the store shelves […]
Will Your Savings Survive the Next Banking Crisis?
September 30, 2016 By: Gordon Haave, Managing Director Agora Trust Ltd. It was the financial crime of the decade. A connected politician stole hundreds of millions of dollars to cover his own trading losses, and, as expected, he was never charged with a crime. This was the story of Jon Corzine and MF Global. In […]
Passport Controls
September 28, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher I find myself often engaging in conversations having to do with moving and relocating. I’ve done it my whole life. My family was moving on average every two years my entire childhood, not because my dad was military or anything. He was just restless, I suppose. My sisters […]
