How Stable Are Your Social Security and Pension Benefits?
Pensions are a relatively new phenomenon. The first pensions date back to the 17th century, but the first modern pension scheme didn’t come into effect until 1889...
Pensions are a relatively new phenomenon. The first pensions date back to the 17th century, but the first modern pension scheme didn’t come into effect until 1889...
My client was frantic. She had to make an urgent international wire transfer. The deadline was approaching, but something didn’t smell right.
About a decade ago, the IRS started communicating with taxpayers by email. While the IRS never contacts taxpayers by email about their personal tax situation, they offer a variety of IRS e-news subscriptions.
One of the realities of modern life is that government control over its citizens has become pervasive. Nowhere is that more true than in our right to travel internationally.
Privacy advocates were aghast when President Trump signed a bill on April 3 that overturned restrictions on data sharing by internet service providers (ISPs).
I might be the only writer on the offshore beat who isn’t in love with Puerto Rico’s tax incentives. Recently, a colleague of mine whom I greatly respect published an entire issue of his newsletter about Puerto Rico.
I will be the first to admit it: I’m a lousy investor. My first forays into the investment markets came in the early 1980s, when I saved up enough money to buy some stocks.
In 1713, the City Council of Geneva ratified the world’s first bank secrecy law. The ordinance prohibited bankers from divulging any information about their clients’ transactions, except by agreement with the cantonal council.
Over the last decade, tens of thousands of visitors to the US – plus US citizens and residents returning home – have been subjected to warrantless border searches of their electronic devices.
2016 was another record-breaking year for the number of US citizens and its long-term residents expatriating, giving up their US citizenship and passport or green card.
How’s this for a nightmare scenario? And while it didn’t actually occur on Valentine’s Day – it could have. One morning, you switch on your personal computer.
Every president inherits something difficult. Some problems are simply out of the incoming president’s hands. Obama inherited a financial crisis.
Cash has never been a popular asset with the totalitarian set. It’s difficult if not impossible to trace. Cash makes it possible to do business “off the books.”
Supply and demand: it’s Economics 101. Nowhere is it more obvious right now than in the industrial metals sector. When demand for copper is high, the price goes up.
Last week, I was in Florida attending a conference for tax professionals sponsored by the Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning.
At the end of 2015, a story about Donald Trump circulated widely. According to reports, if he had parked his wealth in an index fund 30 years ago, he’d be more than twice as rich as he is now.
You’d think Wall Street would have learned its lesson… But nearly a decade after the last financial crash of 2007–2008, the hunger for risky mortgages is back.
While it wasn’t widely publicized on this side of the pond, a hacker breach last month into Britain’s Tesco Bank sent shockwaves throughout Europe, with the thieves managing to steal £2.5 million pounds (US$3.1 million).
The euro is a disaster. At least that’s the story according to Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel prize-winning economist. Looking at Europe, it’s not difficult to see what he means.
Stroke of the pen. Law of the Land. Kind of cool. Paul Begala, advisor to President Bill Clinton (1998)
One of the oldest traditions in the American republic is “government by emergency.”
Don’t trust banks to protect the money you’ve deposited? You’re hardly alone.
Donald Trump could be the worst president ever if he follows through on his promises to bust the federal budget and crack down on civil liberties.
A question I’m asked a lot by clients is, “Are markets manipulated?” My answer is always the same: “Of course they are.”
Today is Election Day in the US. As we post this piece, none of us here at Nestmann have any idea who will win the presidential election.
The world’s billionaires are hoarding cash. Why, you ask?
The short answer is market volatility.
Did you know you can buy a Mexican passport for US$15,000? A Belizean passport for $9,000? Or a passport from Moldova for $4,000?
“If we all die,” said Dr. Ben Goertzel, lead scientist of Hong Kong hedge fund management firm Aidyia, “it would keep trading.”
In the last few days, gold has been on a losing streak. Last Tuesday, gold prices fell by $42 per ounce – 3.3% – the biggest single-day drop in value in nearly three years.
I just returned from a week in Bermuda, where I was a speaker at The Sovereign Society’s Total Wealth Symposium.
Less than six months ago, the mainstream media had a field day announcing the release of the so-called “Panama Papers.”