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 […]
Government: Over Promises, Under Delivers
October 12, 2015 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP Ever hear, “Ignorance of the law is not an excuse to violate it,” or some derivative of that? While societal laws are often an arbitrary moving target, the laws of economics are about as clear as the laws of physics. They can only be bent for […]
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 […]
In Defense of An @sshole
September 26, 2015 By: Gordon Haave, (I understand that Shkreli has announced that he will reduce the price but has not said what the new price will be. This matters not. This analysis stands whether the price is $100 or $750 per pill.) The vilification of Martin Shkreli, who the Internet has dubbed “The World’s […]
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 […]
Outdated Notions Will Lead to Collapse
September 22, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher Tides are shifting, priorities are reconfiguring, values are changing, and the elites in power are woefully behind the times. Bobby published an article a while back “Go Paperless as a Digital Nomad” discussing how the landscape has changed since the days of his father. Suits, ties, cubicles, and […]
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 […]
China’s Ripple Effect
August 17, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher About a year and a half ago, I wrote a blog entitled “China’s Recent Monetary Moves”. I wrote a couple afterward, touting – if not praising – the clever tactics in which they were engaging. I don’t think the current state of things cancels out everything I’ve written, […]
Puerto Rico Defaults
August 10, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher “Puerto Rico, My heart’s devotion, Let it sink back in the ocean. Always the hurricanes blowing, Always the population growing, And the money owing.” ~West Side Story Not much has changed since this 1961 classic was released. It’s been decades in the making, but the “money owing” caught […]
