World’s Largest Tax Haven
April 24, 2015 by Bobby Casey There has been a lot of drama in the news over the past few months surrounding billionaires and multimillionaires who have stashed cash offshore to avert taxes or legal issues back home. The fourth branch of the American government, also known as “mainstream media” has been on a rampage […]
Playing By The Rules
March 23, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher I cannot be the only person in the United States who has asked themselves – with regards to many government activities – “Is this really legal?!” Not that legality has anything to do with morality or what’s right and wrong, but it does have something to do with […]
Modern Indentured Servitude?
March 9, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher I remember back in grade school I was told that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and made us all equal. I also remember when I grew up and read more about American history since the Emancipation Proclamation, figuring out that the grade-school claim was only half right. Abraham […]
Walls Going Up… and Closing in
February 16, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher The tax code is like a growing zit. It’s painful and I want so desperately to pop it. There are nearly 74,000 pages in that code. And code it is, because you need attorneys, CPAs, and computer algorithms to decipher it. Ever hear the old adage, “Ignorance of […]
Free Stuff!
January 26, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher Reading some of the recaps of the State of the Union Address from President Obama, I felt like I missed a very benevolent episode of Oprah! I could just picture him pointing at members of the listening audience shouting, “YOU get a free ride through college! YOU get […]
Developing Plots Around the World
January 5, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher Happy New Year! Have you ever seen the movie Pulp Fiction? One of the notable features of that film was how it started off following various unrelated events and characters, but as the movie continued, it shows how those characters and events would culminate into one plot. This […]
Japan On Track For A Textbook Bust
December 31, 2014 By: Claudio Grass, Contributor from Global Gold Recently, we wrote a paper about the dynamics behind the boom and bust cycles, based on the view of the Austrian School (the Austrian Business Cycle Theory, or ABCT). The key takeaway was that central banks don’t help in smoothing the amplitude of the cycles, […]
2015 Prognosis
December 29, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher What a year! This is my last installment for the year 2014. The next time you see my writing, it will be 2015. Without question, the United States has lost its economic luster, but so have parts of the EU and Asia. Yet, there are countries who have […]
The Tale of Two Bailouts
December 15, 2014 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher This is the story about two bailout countries in the EU: Spain and Ireland. Their respective bailouts were not structured the same, but they were very close in timing and amounts offered. I don’t want to call this an experiment because it has no real controls. However, we […]
E-Stonia: Wired & Well Ahead of the Curve
December 1, 2014 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher I wrote about this over 5 months ago (“Portugal: A Glimpse into America’s Future”), but it looks like Estonia is getting their affairs in order quickly to offer their e-Residency to businesses around the world. In contrast to other countries like Portugal, Estonia is taking several creative and […]
