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By Bryan Dooley Similar to Sylvester Stallone’s character in the 1993 movie “Cliffhanger” who dangled nervously from a precipitous rock face in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, such is the predicament now facing the already teetering US economy, which i...

I've always believed that to whom much is given, much is required. So I was intrigued by a situation a reader raised in a recent online discussion. It made me think about how little we are trained in how to help individuals we believe are in need. T...

Forget media masochism and allow yourself to see positives in the euro crisis. Equities are cheap and now's the time to buy. Sometimes I think I would be better off if I never picked up a newspaper or logged into a news site ever again. Keeping up w...

The finance industry's elite are being culled off rapidly, just as the nobles were during the French Revolution. Companies are increasingly attempting to avoid the slaughter house via migration, meanwhile no sane international financial aristocrat wi...

In today’s world of excessive market volatility amid a seemingly endless credit crisis, investors are seeking two things: yield and safety. But with capital markets constantly in flux, no investments are completely safe and the ones that appear safe...

The Internal Revenue Service has effectively offered certain US citizens and resident aliens who have failed to file their US Federal individual income tax returns and Form TD F 90-22.1 Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) in prior ye...

The ‘United States of Europe’ is now merely a few treaties away. The summer is a boring time in the market, even when there are crises everywhere. World markets have already experienced a ‘summer slump’ and in Europe and the US there has been a nice ...

A four trillion bond issue will reshape troubled Europe’s future. The ongoing nature of the euro crisis means Germany is in as much trouble as France and Italy, despite its reputation as the stable, economic ‘powerhaus’ of Europe. This is a point bro...

Core problems of the developed world’s economies are resolving so slowly it may be 2020 before the world’s giant bear market finally recedes. Spanish contagion has been on the cards since 2008, yet political action has forestalled the inevitable for...