Month: November 2015

  • Chinese investors surpassed Canadians in U.S. Residential Real Estate

    A hundred years ago, Amadeo Modigliani painted a portrait of his wild British mistress splayed across a red velvet throw, nude, her hips arched, her kohl-rimmed eyes shut. The artist was hardly trying to play it safe Paris officials promptly shut down the show where the work was first exhibited. By contrast, the purchase of…

  • Bull Market Expectation

    Q: Do you have an expectation of what will happen over the next few years in the gold market? A: Yes. I expect that after the low is in that we will have a three to five year bull market with prices dramatically higher than they are now. I have confidence in that expectation in…

  • Market Timing and Martin Armstrong

    Q: You seem to have a healthy respect for Martin Armstrong’s work. He’s made some spectacularly correct predictions. What is his current position on the gold market, and do you agree with him? A: We seem to get the same results for different reasons. He works with cycles and compiled a database and developed the…

  • The True Meaning Of Thanksgiving

    This time of the year, whether in good economic times or bad, is when Americans gather with their families and friends and enjoy a Thanksgiving meal together. It marks a remembrance of those early Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the uncharted ocean from Europe to make a new start in Plymouth, Massachusetts. What is less appreciated…

  • Asset Protection for American Retirement Savers

    U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR RULE WOULD ADD URGENTLY NEEDED PROTECTIONS FOR AMERICAN RETIREMENT SAVERS OVERVIEW Every year, retirement savers in the IRA market alone lose at least $17 billion in savings due to conflicted investment advice. Today’s retirement market functions quite well for the broker-dealers, insurance companies, and mutual fund complexes that reap billions of…

  • Standard Bank helps clients bank smarter offshore

    Standard Bank Group has enhanced its banking app to allow Offshore Group customers access to their offshore accounts while they are on the move. The app allows account holders to view balances and transaction history on a smartphone, and also make cross-currency payments between their Standard Bank accounts. New features released in the future will…

  • Forecasting the Low in the Gold Market

    Q: Does the recent terrorist attack in Paris and the public reaction have any bearing on your calling the low in the gold market? A: The event does not but the reaction confirms my view that we have not yet seen the low. We have had new lows in both the bullion and the gold…

  • Automatic Exchange of Information: What can YOU do about it?

    Taxpayers with offshore assets as well as financial institutions that hold them, will all face new challenges under the OECD’s updated Common Reporting Standard (CRS). The CRS, formally the Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters, seeks to establish a global methodology for the sharing amongst tax authorities of data in…

  • Congress wants to seize your passport for unpaid taxes starting January 1st

    Sometimes you just have to stand in awe at the level of corruption and incompetence in government. Case in point, the new highway bill in the Land of the Free. And, trust me, you’ll love this. The latest version of the highway bill is called the “Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy…