How to Boil a Frog, by Politicus Bumpkiss
How to boil a frog, by Politicus Bumpkiss: Allow many tax breaks to expire quietly like; Alternative minimum tax (AMT) — A series of temporary legislative “patches” over the last several years has prevented a dramatic increase in the number of individuals subject to the AMT–essentially a parallel federal income tax system with its own […]
Using Geo-Arbitrage to Stop the Acceleration of Destruction
After last week’s asset protection newsletter, “The United Corporate Statism of America”, the resulting backlash from readers was to be expected. It seems some people, regardless of the clear patterns in government today, remain sheeple and think the president deserves a certain level of respect exclusively linked to his position of power. It just seems […]
The Noose Tightens
On Wednesday the US Treasury Department reached broad agreements with five European nations on a proposal to prevent US taxpayers from dodging taxes through oreign owned and controlled accounts. Those countries are France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. Folks, the western world is tightening the noose around your necks. The window of opportunity is […]
Are You One of the Wage Slave Sheeple?
Every week I talk to people who are interested in making the move abroad for various reasons. Some are bored and tired of the corporate rat race; some are looking for love in all the right places. Others are disgusted with the state of economic affairs in the US and just looking for a new […]
I’m Mad as Hell…
…and I’m not going to take it anymore. This is the sentiment expressed around the US through the recent ‘Occupy Wall Street (OWS)’ movement that seems to be flaring tempers on both sides of the argument. Living in Eastern Europe, I am somewhat sheltered from this, but with Facebook and all of the news outlets […]
I’m Buying Call Options on Entrepreneurship
Asset Protection – Entrepreneurship Over the past week I have been working with one of my asset protection clients developing a strategy for him to minimize his risk. He is a commercial real estate entrepreneur with a fairly large 8 figure net worth. Every time I work with successful entrepreneurs like him I can feel […]
Putting a Band-aid on a Bullet Hole
If you can fog a mirror you are certainly aware of the Obamessiah’s grand plan to save jobs in America. If you are so inclined you can read the full 199 page proposal here. For those of you not inclined to read the musings of Barry O and his legal minions, let me summarize his […]
EscapeWealth Launch
This week I am going to keep this exceptionally short and sweet. I have been busy working on a new, but related business venture. We have partnered with EscapeArtist to now run their asset protection portal – EscapeWealth. I am very excited about this project as it allows us to partner with the world’s leading […]
I’m Not Chicken Little
Last night I was working a bit on the computer on a couple of new projects. I found years ago that running multiple monitors dramatically increases my productivity. I keep various tasks on the monitors eliminating the need to switch back and forth. It really is a time saver. On one of the monitors I […]
Offshore Asset Protection Pt 2
In last week’s newsletter titled “Are We Slaves to the State”, I discussed the morality of taxation and a very short window of opportunity to save yourself an enormous amount of money on estate taxes. At the same time you can allow your heirs to opt out of the US tax trap with your estate. […]
