Subject of a Tyrannical State, or Citizen of a Democratic Republic?

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by Paul Carleton Seymour, Director of Client Services The passport as a travel license instead of travel document, and state granted privileges vs. inalienable basic rights My main man, Bobby Casey, has asked me to write about why citizens of the United States of America might want to seriously consider becoming the citizens of more [...]

Government Reporting Requirements for Coin and Bullion Dealers

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by H. Burdette Streeter II, CFP, CEP, CPhD, MCEP (ret) There is much confusion and disinformation about the extent to which coin dealers are required to obtain customer information to keep on file and use in submitting reports to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or other government agencies. In some cases the confusion may be [...]

Is Your "Money" in a Bubble?

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by Scott Causey, GWP Resource Correspondent Tens of trillions of multiple currency units slosh around the financial universe everyday. Japan’s sovereign debt is measured in a metric called a quadrillion. So is the derivatives market. Going back over 100 years, central bankers around the globe have been the masters of the Universe. Stand close enough to the [...]

Go Against the Flow, Stupid

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by Scott Causey, GWP Resource Correspondent Two things will always be true about capital controls: they will always fail in the end and they will always protect the guilty. The Swiss have printed unprecedented amounts of francs to peg their currency against the euro. In the end, that decision will have a cost that is [...]

The Fat Lady Is Singing…..Without Her Twinkie

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by Scott Causey, GWP Resource Correspondent Just how bad does American business have to get before people finally start to get it? Hostess, the maker of the Twinkie, has filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in the fattest nation on Earth. Does anybody else see just a tad of irony in that? This was the second [...]

The South Has Risen … Again

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by Scott Causey, GWP Resource Correspondent The citizens of the state of Texas have had enough. Thousands of people have signed a petition attempting to help the state of Texas secede from the Union. The Texas petition reads as follows: “The US continues to suffer economic difficulties stemming from the federal government’s neglect to reform [...]

Is It Time to Shrug?

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by Steve Hilgart, Director of Conference Operations and Marketing Warning: Several sarcastic parenthetical comments ahead… continue at your own risk. The presidential elections are like a train wreck. You don’t want to see it, but you can’t look away! Everywhere I look I see fear and uncertainty. It’s been foretold that a democracy only lasts [...]

The Shot Heard Round The World

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by Scott Causey, GWP Resource Correspondent Call one “Black Swan” event in markets with correct timing and accuracy, and you’ll forever be a legend in the minds of many. These seminal moments have historically not come along that often. In recent years, however, they’ve become more and more frequent; the market crash of 1987, the bursting of [...]

Let’s Get Out of Here!

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by Steve Hilgart, Director of Conference Operations and Marketing When I first heard Bobby tell me that I should get a second passport, I thought, “What a silly idea! I don’t need a second passport! I’m a United States citizen – the greatest country in the world! Why the hell would I need a second passport?” But [...]