Chinese Capital Controls A Warning for US
November 23, 2015 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP With the bombings and their aftermath in France, it’s difficult to find other headlines. Perhaps some people find it insensitive to seek other news in the wake of such a tragedy? I don’t know. For me, I try to find those other stories because events are […]
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 […]
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 […]
War is the Health of the State
September 23, 2015 By: Claudio Grass In an essay titled “The State”, Randolph Bourne, an American writer, made a distinction between a country and a state that I find crucial. He described one’s country as “an inescapable group into which we are born”. In his view, a country is “a concept of peace, tolerance, of […]
Why Central Banks Are Pressing Investors To Hold Gold
September 11, 2015 By: Claudio Grass This is an article from Global Gold’s Outlook Report (subscribe on www.globalgold.ch) It has been nearly three years since we published our first Outlook Report in December 2012. Since the beginning of our publication, we have focused on different aspects of the gold market and have analyzed what moves […]
Tightening Fists Around Sand
September 7, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher There are a few things happening right now, and the balance is delicate to say the least. First, you have China’s ailing manufacturing market and volatile yuan. This, naturally affects her neighbors as well. Second, you have Iranian sanctions set to be lifted by spring of 2016. Third, […]
Insolvency: Is Portugal Next?
July 20, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher So by now you probably know that Greece is on sale. It is quite literally the world’s largest estate sale. They are selling off their land, their ancient artifacts, and anything else that can fetch a price to pay off their debt. This is what people and businesses […]
