Author: Aaron

  • Second leg of the new bull market in gold?

    Q: Is the current up-move the start of the second leg of the new bull market in gold? A: Yes, our research indicates an inflection point is taking shape. February 28 may see gold select a direction north or south of 1256 according to Martin Armstrong and we concur based on our own calculations. Q:…

  • Powerful Gold & Silver Coiled Springs

    Important Charts You Have To See by SRSrocco Report According to the fundamentals, gold and silver are severely compressed coiled springs looking for an opportunity to release their tremendous power. Yes, it is true, the precious metals still hold a great deal of power. Which is why their prices are constantly controlled by market intervention.…

  • Developments in the Legal Cannabis Industry

    A report published by The Hemp Business Journal estimates that the Cannabidiol (CBD) market will grow to a $2.1 billion market in consumer sales by 2020 with $450 million of those sales coming from hemp-based sources. In 2015, the market for consumer sales of hemp-derived CBD products was $90 million, plus another $112 million in…

  • The World’s Best Beaches

    TripAdvisor Surfaces The World’s Best Beaches With 2017 Travelers’ Choice Awards [box type=”tick”]Brazil’s Baia do Sancho is #1 in the World; Florida’s Siesta Beach is Best in the U.S.[/box] NEEDHAM, Mass., Feb. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — TripAdvisor®, the travel planning and booking site, today announced the winners of its Travelers’ Choice® awards for Beaches. This year, Baia…

  • Infographic: Bullion Banking Mechanics

    [box]Bullion banks are some of the most influential participants in the global gold market. But who are these players and what do they actually do? And most importantly, how can these bullion banks trade thousands of times more gold each year than is actually in existence?[/box] [box type=”info”]This infographic lifts the lid on bullion banking,…

  • A Future for Offshore Financial Services?

    Globalization has been a one-way street of impositions by powerful countries; fiscal sovereignty has been violated by the strong; and tax competition remains under threat from the mighty. Indeed, if the current pattern of incursions, restrictions and false labelling of Caribbean jurisdictions as ‘tax havens’, and the Caribbean as a region of ‘high risk’, is…

  • Visualizing Gold’s Value And Rarity

    Since Ancient times, Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins explains, gold has served a very unique function in society. Gold is extremely rare, impossible to create out of “thin air”, easily identifiable, malleable, and it does not tarnish. By nature of these properties, gold has been highly valued throughout history for every tiny ounce of weight. That’s…

  • HMRC Profile of Offshore Investors

    Discussions with the 16 banks highlighted that the typical offshore investor is of either High Net Worth (HNW) or Ultra-High Net Worth (UHNW). The definition of these terms varied amongst banks in relation to the manner in which they segmented their customer base. Despite some variation in the boundary between HNW and UHNW there was…

  • Her Majesty’s Overview of the Offshore Investment Market

    Despite the term ‘offshore investment’ being widely used in policy and political discourse to describe the investment of capital outside an investor’s jurisdiction of residence, representatives of banks were keen to point out that it is a very broad term open to different interpretations. Indeed, during many of the qualitative interviews conducted with representatives of…