Weekly Weigh In: TSA Lines, Wealth Tax, NK, Irani Tax, UAE/Qatar and Soap Opera Mentality The World’s Worst Inconvenience is Inconvenient I have just seen another video of the lines in New York being far, far worse for TSA. Some report waiting over 5 hours just to get through security. Communists are Incapable of Learning […]
Temporarily Available For Non-Subscribers Company: Performance Shipping Inc is a Greece-based global provider of shipping transportation services. It owns containerships and focuses on providing sourcing opportunities for vessel purchases and sales, new building acquisitions, chartering and financing arrangements. The Company’s vessels are employed primarily on charters with liner companies carrying containerized cargo along worldwide shipping […]
It’s been remarked by famous investor, author and philosopher Doug Casey that “Russia is nothing more than a gas station attached to a gun store in front of a wheat field” & while I somewhat agree once you take a trip outside of Moscow or St. Petersburg, I think Russia is truly the only capable […]
New Hope Group is an Australian coal producer with associated coal port, oil and gas, and agricultural operations Company Details; Operations Founded in 1952With over 900 employees New Hope currently has two open cut coal mines, one in the Darling Downs and one in the Hunter Valley: New Acland, north of Oakey in Queensland, and Bengalla, west […]
The Smartest Real Estate Purchase, Ever in History Back all the way to 1867, 156 years ago, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. In this, Tsar Alexander II ceded the territory of Alaska to the United States for $7.2 million dollars. In […]
What’chu Ghana do about it? I’ve gotten off a call recently with a Namibian lawyer whereby we were talking about the company structures and tax details. We were talking about how lots of legal proceedings are out-of-date, simply unknown or resort to case law in court. Unfortunately, my plans were deemed not feasible and the […]
Smooth Sailing but Unable to Dock the Stock Most of the world does not produce anything themselves and rely on imports; this is especially true when it comes to resources. Russia accounts for a meaningful percentage of the world’s commodity production as Europeans have found out the hard way over the last couple of years. […]
Unfortunate Timing with Everything; But Brighter Times Ahead? I am bullish on energy sectors for this whole decade. While the whole world bitches about windmills, solar, electric, carbon and fossil fuels, the bitter truth is that energy security for a country = political security. If you have to grow it, manufacture it, or move it–it […]
Crisis + Offshore Oil= Opportunity? As of October 27th, 2022 Lebanon and Israel have come to a deal (brokered by the United States) to divide up ownership of maritime boundary areas of the Mediterranean; an unlikely event given the hostilities between each other. The settling of these boundaries allow for the transparency to set-up for […]
When God made Hell, he did not find it bad enough, so he made Mesopotamia—and added flies. Arab Proverb Mesopotamia = Land Between Rivers. You’ll know it as Iraq. It’s always been a place of unpredictability, causing shivers of fear to those who live there. It’s amazing blessing from oil has also conjured up a cursing of unimaginable catastrophes. I […]
