The West and Its Allies Are Losing Ground
Like a global reality show, with winners, losers, alliances, and betrayals. The West and its allies are losing ground. April 25, 2022 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP Cooperation is an important thing in a free society. It’s what a free market economy looks like. I can’t grow blueberries, but this guy can get them, […]
Russia Pegs Ruble to Gold… Now What?
Russia making moves toward sound money by pegging the ruble to gold might turn the global trading economy on its ear. April 4, 2022 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP A lot is happening but in all the confusion of people trying to get back to some semblance of normalcy, it’s going relatively unnoticed. Joe […]
The (Self Imposed) Conundrum of the West
The West painted itself into a corner ecologically as well as economically, and it’s confounding to watch as they worsen their conundrums. March 28, 2022 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP Plenty of companies have indeed either left or suspended their businesses in Russia as part of a corporate boycott of that country. There are […]
Is the US Moving Toward UBI and Rationing?
The US faces a desperate economic situation that could lead straight to UBI and rationing as they compound their poor choices. March 21, 2022 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP The US is seeing some terrible economic times. I want to say it can’t catch a break, but that would be inaccurate. The fact is, […]
Is Distrust the New Economic Pandemic?
Public confidence in institutions has waned in the wake of the pandemic. Is distrust the new economic pandemic facing the economy? March 14, 2022 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP With Japanese parachuting spiders landing on American shores, the trucker convoy blazing to Washington DC, petty politicians equivocating on pandemic policies, inflation hitting every pocketbook, […]
Independence is NOT Isolation
People are conflating independence with isolationism, and that is a zero-sum approach to a win-win situation. Decentralization is where real freedom is found. March 7, 2022 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP I’m a huge advocate of decentralization. I tell people all the time to get multiple streams of income from gigs to investments. I […]
Navigating These Interesting Times
The global economy isn’t finished with its economic shenanigans as we transition from pandemic to war, the question is how can people navigate these interesting times? February 28, 2022 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP The world is in quite a mess right now. The global response to COVID-19 made many areas of the world […]
War on Cash Meets War on Crypto
Regulations guiding the fiscal agenda are making life impossible as the government wages war on cash and crypto. January 31, 2022 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP It really looks like you can’t win anymore, doesn’t it? I get the general inter-generational rift between Millennials and Boomers, though. I’m squarely in the forgotten generation of […]
Entering an Existential Crisis Where People Just Quit
Governments can weasel out of recessions, depressions, and even wars, but they cannot afford an existential crisis where people just quit. January 10, 2021 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP The way governments maintain an illusion of freedom is rationing out a few tokens to the hoi polloi. We get a vote, for example. Most […]
There is No Limit on What the IRS Will Tax (Even This)
The desperation is starting to show on the federal level, as they seek to tax unrealized gains as a money grab at the uber rich. The U.S.’s own Internal Revenue Service and 41 of the 50 state governments already tax their citizens to death. Up to 37% of your income could be confiscated every year […]
