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One of the most frustrating things to watch is to see the systematic oppression of a Big Brother environment break the spirit of another citizen. From constant surveillance to pernicious taxation, the system really knows how to quell the spirits of its citizens.
Posted: 2009-08-04
Category: Wealth Building
Big Brother has his hands firmly in your pocket. Doubt it for a minute? Consider your tax bill from this past year. It likely amounted to at least a third of your total income for the year.
Posted: 2009-08-04
Category: Wealth Building
Many people have a picture in their heads about the third world that has absolutely no basis in reality. They've been conditioned to think that the only acceptable existence is the overdeveloped and over-regulated one that they know in their big-brother loving home countries. However, it is time to look at some of the realities of roughing it over in the third world.
Posted: 2009-08-04
Category: Arts & Entertainment
Watching the stock markets of the world roll up and down can be a fun game. When the downward roll wipes out your nest egg and personal assets it becomes a lot less amusing. The hollow promises of your investment advisor that the market will recover do no seem to be coming true as the market continues to slide.
Posted: 2009-08-04
Category: Wealth Building
There are many people out there in the world who want you to live according to their rules. Most people never realize the extent to which the moral codes and legal strictures of their governments are reigning them in and holding them back.
Posted: 2009-08-04
Category: Wealth Building
Watching the markets day after day, paying exorbitant taxes year after year, and wondering if any of it is worth it? You know its not, and you're not alone. Millions of people all over the world are realizing that they can take a faster path to wealth creation by moving abroad and leaving the whole mess behind.
Posted: 2009-07-20
Category: Wealth Building
Preserving wealth in tough times can certainly be a challenge. This is especially true for those of us that live in so-called "developed" nations. We're subjected to constant government scrutiny of our spending patterns, saving patterns, and financial choices.
Posted: 2009-07-20
Category: Wealth Building
When it comes to assets, it can be a challenge to really see what is a good asset and what is not. As economic uncertainty continues to dominate the airwaves, everyone wants to know what is going to hold value over time and within a variety of paradigms.
Posted: 2009-07-20
Category: Wealth Building
Gold bullion has been going on a quiet popularity rise lately with an entirely new fan base. Naturally, those who have long been suspicious of government backed currencies and worried about the markets have been in gold for a long time. Yet it wasn't much on the minds of the lumpen investor until recently.
Posted: 2009-07-20
Category: Wealth Building
USA Today has pegged the amount of unfunded promises by the US government at nearly $100 trillion dollars. That covers local, state, and federal promises. How can anyone with actual money avoid wealth seizure by the government the day some of those promises have to be paid for?
Posted: 2009-07-20
Category: Wealth Building
Depressingly enough, it takes Americans more than 6 months of working each year to hit their "Tax Independence Day". This is the day where they have worked long enough to pay their government tab and can finally start working for themselves.
Posted: 2009-07-13
Category: Wealth Building
Living in a lawsuit crazy country with aggressive divorce courts, it is almost inevitable that at some point in your life you are going to be mixed up in a lawsuit.
Posted: 2009-07-13
Category: Wealth Building
If the knowledge that your bank and your government collude with the credit agencies to watch your every financial move drives you crazy, you've come to the right place.
Posted: 2009-07-13
Category: Wealth Building
At some point, you just knew that Big Brother was going to start getting greedy and start trying to get his hands on international savings accounts.
Posted: 2009-07-13
Category: Personal Finance
When it comes time to leave your current home for an offshore destination, sometimes the hardest part of the process can be deciding where to go.
Posted: 2009-07-13
Category: Wealth Building