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 […]
A State of Control
October 19, 2015 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP There are quite a few articles on our site that discuss the burdens placed on individuals, businesses, and full industries by the government. Back when we discussed Edward Snowden’s revelations and the various US spy programs, it became all too clear that these programs were not […]
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 […]
Passport Controls
September 28, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher I find myself often engaging in conversations having to do with moving and relocating. I’ve done it my whole life. My family was moving on average every two years my entire childhood, not because my dad was military or anything. He was just restless, I suppose. My sisters […]
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 […]
Top Heavy Economy
September 14, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher A shocking statistic crossed my feed the other day: Government employees outnumber manufacturing employees by nearly 2 to 1. The first question might naturally be: Has manufacturing EVER outnumbered government employees? And the answer would be, yes. Up to 1989, in fact, manufacturing employment was higher than that […]
Is Residency in Panama Right for You?
September 10, 2015 by Bobby Casey When considering the various options for internationalizing your life, the question of “where” is always at the top of that list. However, “where” can have many variations in meaning, depending on your personal situation. For example; Where should I live? Where should I establish foreign residency? Where should I […]
Tightening Fists Around Sand
September 7, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher There are a few things happening right now, and the balance is delicate to say the least. First, you have China’s ailing manufacturing market and volatile yuan. This, naturally affects her neighbors as well. Second, you have Iranian sanctions set to be lifted by spring of 2016. Third, […]
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, […]
