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 […]
What Inflation Really Is
The media spin on inflation is trying to pacify those most adversely affected by it claiming it is fine or at worst a problem for the wealthy. November 15, 2021 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP Have you seen some of the headlines coming out of the mainstream media? I’m floored by some of these […]
Why the Worker Shortages?
People want to blame everything from the pandemic to horrible wages and bosses for the worker shortages. Who is right? The intellectually lazy are always desperate for that one silver bullet explanation for everything. They want it to be like some cartoon mystery reveal or a board game where it’s one person, with this one […]
Regulations Targeting the Middle Class: Part 1
Government regulations are aiming to help the middle class, but are actually hitting them instead with their agenda. October 18, 2021 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP The two major agendas in the US are: Eat the Rich, and Green New Deal. And they are coming hard for those things. The big distraction is the […]
Inflation or Stagflation
The economies around the world are in an economic conundrum seeing varying levels of inflation and unemployment giving rise to the theory that stagflation is imminent. October 11,2021 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP Ever hear someone say: “We’re all in the same boat”? While that sounds unifying, it’s wrong. We aren’t in the same […]
