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Author: Aaron

  • Oil Price Could Doom Obama

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    Like death and taxes, the price of oil is always with us. And like taxes, it may be President Barack Obama’s worst nightmare at election time next year. Among forecasters, there is a sharp division between those who see an inexorable rise in the price of oil and those who believe it will stabilize about…

  • Gold Makes Record Run

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    INCIDENT: On 7 December, gold hit an all-time high above US$1,425 per ounce (London morning fix), after having risen from under $300 per ounce at the beginning of the millennium and from just over $700 per ounce only a little over two years ago (all figures in current dollars). SIGNIFICANCE: While the recent spike in…

  • Why Uranium Will Make Someone Rich

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    Uranium is a very unusual sector. For one, it’s small. So small, that at one point in history top-producing nations like Canada and France tried to form a uranium cartel to control prices for the metal. The “uranium OPEC” failed. But production today is de facto controlled by a handful of companies. Consider this. The…

  • Perth Mint UNallocated metals storage

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    QUESTION: Do UNALLOCATED metal assets held under the Perth Mint Certificate Program need to be reported on the IRS TDF90-22.1? I recently purchased your book “Reporting Foreign Financial Accounts” as well as the 2010 Update and searched both of them for an answer on this point, and have also searched your online Q&A looking for…

  • Maitland Among Fastest Growing Administrators

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    LONDON, May 13, 2010 – Maitland which administers more than $70bn on behalf of 80 fund manager clients was ranked the third fastest growing hedge fund administrator globally in a recent international survey by hedgefund.net. Assets under administration grew by $21bn over the past year and have more than doubled over the past three years.…

  • The Allure of Australian Real Estate

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    How Law Changes Have Drawn in More Foreign Real Estate Investors by Nadine Davis ~ Thanks mostly to new laws regarding the foreign ownership of land in Australia, there are more offshore investors in Queensland property than ever before. The Foreign Investment Review Board changed laws concerning foreign ownership in late 2008. Before that, offshore…

  • How to Become a Sovereign Person

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    Addressed to Vern Jacobs (now deceased): I was given your e-mail address in the hopes of learning more about how to become sovereign. I would like to know the process and what steps to take in order to do this as well as information regarding any offices or people here locally who could help me…

  • IFC International Newslinks

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    Safe Swiss Passage Swiss reporter Myret Zaki, who sacrificed three months’ salary to probe the UBS financial scandal, was both prophetic and cryptic. “India will never get to know the names of those having accounts in banks across Switzerland. New Delhi has neither the will, nor the clout,” Zaki told TEHELKA. “You have to be…

  • Gold Soars off European Debt Crisis

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    Thus far this week has provided plenty of fuel for higher Gold prices as the economic climate in the European Union continues to drive savvy investors out of the traditional “fiat currencies” and in to “safer havens “especially gold as it has a history of performing better than most commodities in times of crisis. It…