Category: Economics
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The Art of War
To understand how governments manufacture consent from the people they govern, it is helpful to examine a classic text about military strategy, “The Art of War.” This work has been attributed to Sun Tzu who is thought to have lived in China about 2,500 years ago. Some authorities believe this is a collective work. If…
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The Sovereign Debt Crises
We Promise to Pay You unless We Decide not to Given a free market choice, very few people would buy so-called sovereign debt, i.e. government debt. That is one reason why central banks create money out of thin air and use it to buy the debt. But let us take a look at what’s happening,…
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The Master Game
There once was a man named DeRopp who wrote a book titled The Master Game. No need to discuss his book or his philosophy here, other than to say it had to do with the shaping of one’s life and options through a lens few of us normal people have ever looked through before. It…
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#CRASHUP by Catherine Austin Fitts
Solid investment advice contained in this compelling interview about Global Economy 3.0. She also gives out rare insight and wisdom for finding your economic security while battling the covert forces of mind control, entrainment technology, money harvesting, black budget operations and power centralization. Spellbinding, informative, startling and provocative, this is the interview you’re going to need…
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No Fool on the Hill! – Recent Trends in the Private Placement Life Insurance Industry
Recent events within the private placement life insurance industry have created renewed interest within this specialized segment in the life insurance industry. The industry has seen some consolidation over the last several years and recent events including the entrance of large investment management firms has made the product relevant once again. I would argue that…
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Market Timing and Conspiracy Theory
Love is all that counts, everything else is rhetoric or mind games. There’s a distinct connection between meaning and value, in that those things that contain the deepest meaning for each of us, are the very things that hold the most value. The best example of this is a wedding ring, for it may have…
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How to Invest Offshore Post FATCA
For years, people have invested offshore to protect their investment. This was money that the government could not tax and could not attach to you. Many considered it the safest way to store your money. Recently, however, things are changing. FATCA, Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, makes it harder for people to invest in offshore…
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Why Invest Offshore?
What if you realized that you too could have the key to opening the lock that has been holding back your very best financial future? The very key to create the building blocks for your financial destiny; a destiny controlled by you and nothing external. Whether you looking for ways to start bolting together individual…
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Hong Kong leads the way on TIEAS
It’s important to understand that Hong Kong has never had any bank secrecy laws, the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) always had a mandate to collect information from banks for the purposes of administration of taxes under the IRD tax code. Hong Kong, when collecting data to honor the terms of the tax information agreements (TIEAs)…