Daniel Amerman

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Mining Mergers and Three Wealth Creation Tools

  Published 24 June 2008 | viewed 3,370 times

  Overview The hottest area for mergers and acquisitions has moved from financial firms to acquiring metals mines. Using the illustration of a $100 billion mega-acquisition,…

• Credit Derivatives Dangers In 2008 and Beyond (A Primer)

  Published 02 May 2008 | viewed 4,039 times

  Overview The credit derivatives market is roughly 30 times the size of the subprime mortgage market - and potentially even more at risk in the…

• The Subprime Crisis Is Just Starting

  Published 20 March 2008 | viewed 7,386 times

  Overview As the author of three books on mortgage finance and related derivative securities, and speaking as someone who first turned mortgages into rated securities…

• Deflation Meets Inflation: Real Estate In 2007 and Beyond

  Published 06 March 2008 | viewed 5,165 times

  Overview It has been widely reported that the United States housing market fell by 8.9% in 2007. As we will explore in this article -…

• Fed Interest Rate Manipulation Subsidizes Wall Street and Cheats Small Investors

  Published 29 February 2008 | viewed 3,414 times

  Overview A manipulated market is a market that is rife with arbitrage opportunities. In this article we will examine a federally sponsored market manipulation that…

• Why Inflation Will Trump Deflation (Reasons 1-2)

  Published 21 February 2008 | viewed 6,403 times

  Overview In this first article of a series, we will discuss why the answers to the inflation versus deflation debate won't be found in impersonal…

• Real Investment Tax Rate Is 256% Higher Than Stated

  Published 31 January 2008 | viewed 5,056 times

  (1972 - 2007, Illustrated) Overview Using simple to follow graphs and charts, in this article we will revisit the last 35 years, and show how…

• Inflation Index Manipulation: Theft By Statistics

  Published 18 December 2007 | viewed 5,501 times

  Overview If the United States government was an individual or corporation, and we looked at the obligations it has entered into for the decades ahead…

• $2 Million Per Household Means Doom For Dollar

  Published 01 November 2007 | viewed 5,987 times

  Overview What is the total cost of all United States retirement promises and expectations, and what are the implications for the dollar? In this article…

• Seizing Your Assets To Cover Retirement Promises: How The Government May Do It

  Published 19 September 2007 | viewed 8,963 times

  Overview The higher the rate of future inflation - the more of your current net worth belongs to the government. Many investors do not realize…

• Finding Beauty Within The Inflationary Beast

  Published 23 August 2007 | viewed 4,263 times

  In this article we will meet a ravenous Beast that goes by the name of Substantial Inflation, and find out just how difficult it is…

• Apple Pie, Economic Growth & Fatal Stock Market Flaws

  Published 24 April 2007 | viewed 5,331 times

  (The start of this article is an excerpt from Chapter Three of "Contracts With Our Children", which is the first book of The Great Retirement…

• Inflation Pickpocket: How Scott Used Inflation To Separate Peter From His Net Worth

  Published 04 April 2007 | viewed 5,163 times

  Inflation is not an even game, it is not a fair game, and we are not all in this boat together. For inflation is not…

• The Great Game, Gold Arbitrage and Three Little Pigs

  Published 13 March 2007 | viewed 6,258 times

  An astute reader from Atlanta named Ken recently wrote the following in a letter to me: "It seems that the game plan (for financial heavyweights)…

• Pirates of the Boomer Bust! (The Investor of the Future)

  Published 26 October 2006 | viewed 5,969 times

  So, let's set up the situation. Most of the Boomers have already retired, and you are still working. Taxes are at a crushing level, as…