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Aaron FATCA and CRS regime are commonly referred to as AEOI Automatic Exchange of Information. GATCA, or global account tax compliance act introduces the global AEOI. The OECD has developed a standard for global information exchange which has been widely endorsed: On 21 July 2014 the OECD issued the Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Information … Read more
Q: Do all market price gaps get filled? A: That is the tendency, yes. Q: Then that information can be useful in predicting future price action? Is this something you use to call the low in the gold market? If so, how do you use it? A: Price gaps indicate an imbalance of buy and … Read more
Q: Are you turned off by the zero sum and negative nature of market speculation? Especially short selling? A: No. It is only a zero sum game for the speculators involved. For the market economy, it is a win win. The price signals sent by the changes caused by the nature of market speculation are … Read more
Three Most Affordable Overseas Retirement Havens in 2016 — InternationalLiving.com Cost of living can be a major concern for people on fixed pension, annuity, and other retirement income sources. In International Living’s 2016 Global Retirement Index, three countries stand out from the top 23 retirement locations in the world as having the best cost of … Read more
Q: Can I get a five-to-one advantage over 98% of market players using the Fixed System? A: Yes. That’s the minimum. It’s possible to get more as your skill improves. Q: Why do you say the advantage is at minimum five to one? What’s your basis for saying that? A: I once took a week-long … Read more
Q: When a proposal for short selling is presented, a frequent objection is that profit potential is limited in that the shares can only go down to zero but losses are potentially infinite since there is no limit, in theory, to how high the stock price can go. How do you answer such an objection? … Read more
On the subject of tax, Americans attending a recent one-day conference in London aimed at US expats seemed most concerned about how the US is likely to tax their non-US pensions, according to an expert on such tax matters, who spoke at the event. “Some of them have got certain kinds of older, defined-benefit pensions that … Read more
Below is the latest KBRA comment on the travails affecting the largest global banks. Global capital levels are at the highest levels ever, but investor confidence in the big banks is at an all time low. Over a century ago, J.P. Morgan told a congressional hearing that commercial credit is not based upon money or … Read more
Q: Are we now in the last leg down for gold? You indicated in your blog post on February 12, 2016, that we were in the last rally but had one more down leg to go. Are we in that down leg now? A: Most likely yes. It certainly feels like it. We will know … Read more