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From a markets perspective, rarely is the eternal pessimist ie the investor currently thinking the world is going to hell in a hand basket correct. On the other hand, things never seem to turn out quite as well as the permanently optimistic would ha...

Summary of an important new announcement for US persons: US citizens living and working offshore, dual and triple nationality citizens with the United States but residing in another country, LPRs (long-term permanent residents, aka green card holders...

The stock market slump of 2011 was meant to have been caused by European economic uncertainty and the possibility of the Eurozone’s violent implosion. The euro crisis still seems far from being resolved. However, the markets at least outside of the ...

Unfortunately, things do not look a whole lot brighter for investors yearning for bigger bond coupons in today’s yield-starved world of fixed income investing. This past week, in fact, the US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met for its regular ...

Timing the market is notoriously difficult. While it's possible to accurately ‘see the future' more often than not that future comes to pass much sooner, or later, than expected. For investors, 2012 will be all about timing. The Maya thought 2012 wou...

Most of us have made promises to do something better. My home office is still cluttered after I promised as one of my 2011 New Year's resolutions to keep it tidy. It was clean for a while. Now it's a hot mess again. But this is the year, right? This ...

For most investors 2011 will be a year they may wish to forget. After a very promising start where stocks and commodities steadily gained in price, global risk markets were whipsawed over the summer months and into the fall as the deteriorating econo...

Gold will go through $2000 an ounce Gold is down in the dumps right now. This is partly due to the general Christmas wind-down in levels of general trading, as well as concerns about EFT which may or may not hold Gold. Nothing goes up in a straight ...

The question that I hear asked the most about the current financial crisis that we are living through is: “Why has a mortgage crisis and real estate crash in the US affected the entire global economy?” The answer to that question is that the vast cha...