Archive for ‘Asset Protection’
IRS: No One Is Too Old, Too Poor Or Too Sympathetic To Avoid Prosecution
by Brian Mahany, Esq We have long said that the IRS and Justice Department are not letting up in their assault on taxpayers with unreported foreign accounts. Despite our warnings, many people with offshore wealth are still sitting on the fence. That “wait and see” approach could land them in jail. Why? Last week we [...]
The Secret Ingredient of Almost Everything
by Knut Anderson, Swiss Metal Assets “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain I am [...]
The Status of Roth IRAs in 2013
by Jeff Schneider, CPA I grew up reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It was one of those fantasy books that I would have never considered valuable to everyday life. Years later, this phrase has started to be muttered in frequent chatter among our famed Washington representatives. Yes, famed may be used a little tongue in cheek [...]
Take Our Guns, But You’ll Never Take… Our CELL PHONES!
by Steven Hilgart Maybe I’m fired up about this new law. Maybe I’m upset that I got another parking ticket the same night. I mean – come on – everyone tells me I HAVE to pay my taxes to pay for roads, but you sure as hell can’t be on them, otherwise you get fined! Miss the meter [...]
Subject of a Tyrannical State, or Citizen of a Democratic Republic?
by Paul Carleton Seymour The passport as a travel license instead of travel document, and state granted privileges vs. inalienable basic rights My main man, Bobby Casey, has asked me to write about why citizens of the United States of America might want to seriously consider becoming the citizens of more freedom-respecting countries. He did [...]
Second Passport or Kiss Your Assets Goodbye
by Micheal Davis Over the years, we have routinely expressed the importance of planting multiple flags. If you live, work, bank, invest, own a business, and hold your assets in the same country of your citizenship, you are putting all of your eggs in one basket, and once that basket heads in the wrong direction, you [...]
J.M. Keynes Just Called Obama Stupid
by Bobby Casey Even John Maynard Keynes would call Obama stupid right now. As much as I despise Keynes, even this capitalism destroyer would not raise taxes at a time when the economy is still on such shaky ground. In my humble (but accurate) opinion, the ideas developed by Keynes that have been the basis [...]
The Shrinking World of Second Passports
by Micheal Davis Take a first-class vacation on us while getting a second passport at the same time! The Dominican Republic is a beautiful, diverse and freedom-minded country in the Caribbean. It is only a short flight from the US or Canada and has numerous direct international flights from around the world, including Europe, Central [...]
News From Cryptohippie: Good, Bad & Ugly
by Paul Rosenberg This past year has been a wild one for the Internet and electronic privacy in general. Governments and marketers have gone far beyond what we would have guessed in 2012: their surveillance state is taking shape faster than expected. THE GOOD NEWS I normally like to get the bad news out of [...]
Go Against the Flow, Stupid
by Scott Causey Two things will always be true about capital controls: they will always fail in the end and they will always protect the guilty. The Swiss have printed unprecedented amounts of francs to peg their currency against the euro. In the end, that decision will have a cost that is impossible to calculate. [...]
The Freedom Cliff
by Don Watkins Everyone is currently worried about the so-called fiscal cliff—a truckload of new taxes (and an across-the-board cut in government spending) that will take place at the end of the year if Washington can’t come to an agreement. There’s no question those taxes will put a strain on many Americans—Americans who are already feeling [...]
Hit the Jackpot with Rare Strategic Metals
by Knut Anderson, Swiss Metal Assets Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it dwarfs the problem. “The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.” In the overwhelming amount of Economic Reports and Statistics that we see (or don’t see) on [...]
Why the Glass-Steagall Myth Persists
by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins What is Barack Obama’s vision for America? Here’s one telling clue: In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the President declares that the individualist credo of novelist-philosopher, Ayn Rand misses “what’s best in America”. Really? Rand, who immigrated to America from Soviet Russia when she was 21, praised this [...]
