In the age of the Internet, nearly every day there are new ways to ensure that you can stay on top of your financial information. From mobile phones to text messages to software that tracks the value of money, your portfolio can be digitized and monitored with nothing more than a click of the mouse […]
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Every cloud has a silver lining, and in the case of some natural disasters, there have been great opportunities to take advantage of financial markets after the worst damage has been done. Often when the old has been swept away and new modern construction takes its place an area can be revitalized and get a whole new lease on life.
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International law affects a multitude of countries, in a variety of ways. When deciding on where to invest and what to invest in, it is important to see which international laws and treaties are upheld by the country where the investments will be made. Here are a few specific things that should be kept in mind.
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Boats carry life vests and life preservers and have lifeboats. Construction workers wear hard hats, skateboarders wear knee and elbow pads, professional football players and motocross racers wear helmets, and welders wear goggles. Why?  Because they understand the value of protection. In the same way, businesses need to understand the value of protection and that is why insurance is crucial, especially in business.
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In addition to saving yourself time and worries by mostly ignoring public information, learning to discern the difference between good and bad information can lead to better decision making, in your everyday life, and in your investments. As a case in point, during the conference here, someone in the audience asked a question about quantitative easing. Doug Casey took hold of the microphone and replied along the lines of, “People need to stop using constructs such as ‘quantitative easing.’ Those are just terms that politicians have come up with to obfuscate the truth. The proper term for quantitative easing is currency debasement, plain and simple.”
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Can you trust the information? One of the major problems with the internet… you never know the real source of the information or how reliable it is.
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1913 is a year that will live in infamy. On March 1st, 1913, the 16th Amendment took effect providing for a 1% Federal Income tax and on December 23rd President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law. Perhaps an effort to keep tabs on the Federal Reserve is what inspired the Department of Labor to begin tracking inflation that same year. Incidentally, that same year the department of Commerce and the department of labor split into two separate departments. Now 100 years later the average Federal Income Tax rate in 2011 was 11.8%. The top 5 percent of earners paid approximately 58.7 percent of federal individual income taxes while paying an average effective tax rate of 20.46%. The bottom 50% paid an effective Federal Income Tax rate of 1.85%.
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The establishment is telling you that gold is done for, finished, kaput. It was all just a bubble in fear of the massive bailout. It’s had a good run for the last 12 years but now it is time to move on to “real investments” you know, those made out of paper like stocks and derivatives. In
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Generally markets slowly climb “a wall of worry” gaining a bit of ground and losing a bit until the final “blow-off top” where the market goes parabolic and the few remaining investors are fighting to get in on a “sure thing” but at this point the insiders are in the process of unloading their shares to
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Major oil companies like Shell have have been jumping at the chance to acquire ground in this former French protectorate that had been neglected for decades. For the first time, major spending has been committed to test Tunisian basins which could be just as prolific as those in neighboring oil rich environments such as Libya. Tunisia is
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