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 […]
Who Really Owns Your Shares
by Jeff Berwick Do you own stocks in a brokerage account? You may be surprised to find out that you don’t. Your brokerage owns them. It is one of the dirtiest little secrets in the brokerage business. And 99.9% of people have no idea it is even being done to them. It’s called “street name […]
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 […]
Paypal Can Kiss My A$$
First of all I want to apologize to my regular readers. In over 3 years I have not missed one single Thursday newsletter…until last week. The past few months have gotten increasingly busy here at Global Wealth Protection. We have seen a lot of new clients as well as an increase in traffic on our […]
Economic Doomsday? Or Opportunity of a Lifetime?
After two weeks, I am finally home from my eastern European road trip. It was a whirlwind trip with visits in Lithuania, Ukraine, Serbia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland. The trip was mostly pleasure, but there were a couple of meetings along the way. In future articles I will discuss some of the opportunities that arose […]
Wake Up and Smell the Gunpowder
On the evening of December 31st, 2011 the Obamessiah signed the 2012 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act). For those of you following the political news, you will remember that the president vowed to veto this bill because of sub-sections 1021 and 1022. These 2 sub-sections deal with the detention of terrorism suspects. The NDAA grants […]
Global Escape Hatch
I want to begin this newsletter by wishing all of my friends, family and readers around the world a happy holidays. There are a myriad of winter traditions celebrated around the world on a variety of days ranging from Saint Nicholas Day on December 6th, Hanukkah from December 20-28th, Catholic or Protestant Christmas on December […]
What is Asset Protection?
This week I felt it would be important to address the topic, “What is Asset Protection?” While you clearly have some idea what is involved in asset protection planning, I frequently get this question or some derivation thereof. The quick and simple answer is that asset protection is a means of protecting your assets from […]
Pecan Pie, Gold, and Tryptophan Comas
Time for a Golden Turkey – Asset Protection Planning First of all, I want to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American readers. I hope you all have a very enjoyable holiday filled with friends, family and tryptophan induced comas. I will keep this newsletter short and sweet. Quite frankly there are probably […]
What is your Escape Hatch?
Do You Have a Realistic Asset Protection Plan? Two weeks ago to the day I received a call from a friend of mine in the US. Dave runs a motorcycle performance shop in North Carolina and called me to chat about business. In the conversation he mentioned that he would be in Milan, Italy the […]