US Banking = Selling Marks
April 14, 2014 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher This past Saturday, I got a personal taste of fractional reserve banking. I recently switched car insurance companies, so my former policy prorated the monthly premium, and paid me out the balance. They issued me a check in the amount of $86.50. I went to deposit it at […]
Somalia: Not What You’d Think!
April 7, 2014 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher I’m sure by now, if you’ve so much as questioned the righteousness of the American government, foreign or domestic, you are immediately chastised and told any combination of the following: If you don’t like it, leave! No one is making you stay here! Why don’t you just go […]
Closing the Gap
March 31, 2014 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher My mom and I got into a discussion about transportation and manufacturing in the United States as opposed to other countries like China, Malaysia or Singapore. I came to an interesting realization: we can buy products that were manufactured in a way that is illegal here in the […]
Toothless Legislation Gumming at US Spy Program
March 24, 2014 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher It’s often a point of debate as to whether embargoes, sanctions or blockades are acts of war. When we listen to pundits talk about the foreign policies surrounding Iran and the US, the US sanctions are regarded as acts of diplomacy. The same is said of Israel’s sanctions […]
Cronyism Strikes Again!
March 14, 2014 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher Just this past weekend there were some Americans who were given the gift of jetlag from their respective state governments. This gift is endearingly called “daylight savings”. For those not familiar or accustomed to this bi-annual practice, it’s when you go to sleep one night… and without the […]
Russia Pushes to Ban USD: Tick tock!
March 4, 2014 By: Bobby Casey, GWP Managing Director Russian lawmaker, Mikhail Degtyarev, proposed a bill to ban the use or possession of American currency in Russia. His rationale? He predicts the imminent collapse of the dollar system due to the massive growth of US national debt. This bill would partially revive the Soviet-era ban […]
What is Going On With China!?
February 24, 2014 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher Since my last entry on December 9, 2013, “China’s Recent Monetary Moves”, China has placed a few more pieces on the Go board that indicate they have a unique strategy that eludes the west. In that installment, I pointed out that China is taking advantage of the United […]
Riots Du Jour!
February 20,2014 By: Kevin Kerr, Managing Editor and Trader for CommodityConfidential.com Can the American Implosion Be Far Off? Chaos in Caracas, the UN fiddling while Ukraine burns, political uncertainty in Italy, the list of unrest in various nations is long, and getting longer. How long will it be before we see struggling, angry Americans picking […]
Italy Steals 20% of All Incoming Bank Wires – Opportunity?
February 19, 2014 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director You may have read Kelly’s recent article, “Money Grabbin’” talking about how Italy is now imposing a 20% withholding tax on ALL incoming wires. If you haven’t read that article, click the link above and read it. This really happened. Not only did it happen this week, […]
Money Grabbin’
February 17, 2014 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher On the near anniversary of the Cypriot bank account seizures, the Eurozone is toying with the idea of dipping in once again. Both the EU and now Italy are making some plays for people’s capital and it ain’t pretty. This isn’t the behavior of a stable economy, or […]
