2016: What to Watch Out For
December 28, 2015 By: Bobby Casey, GWP Managing Director Looking back at nearly 100 articles in 2015, we’ve done our level best to keep you guys informed. There are a good number of glitzy distractions, and it can be difficult to stay focused much less find the real news that matters. But when I look […]
6 Signs 2016 Will Be Much Worse Than 2015
December 23, 2015 By: Claudio Grass, www.globalgold.ch Over the course of 2015 we witnessed several events that had, and will have, negative repercussions on our individual freedom. Orwellian totalitarianism is increasingly creeping into our everyday lives. How much more intrusive will the violations of our liberties get and for how long will the establishment get […]
China Officially Added to IMF Basket
December 7, 2015 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP A new chapter to the global economy story has officially started, with the IMF declaring China’s renminbi a reserve currency: “On Oct. 1, 2016, the yuan will officially be added to the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket of currencies, which previously included only the dollar, […]
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 […]
