Terry Coxon

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• WAIT: Don't File Those Taxes Just Yet!

  Published 09 April 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Those of you in the US know that it's the least wonderful time of the year: tax time. Hopefully you haven't filed your tax return…

• Listening to the Canary

  Published 11 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  During World War II, the British Royal Air Force (RAF) undertook a plan of misdirection to allow a squadron of bombers to approach an exceptionally…

• Is There a Best Way to Return to a Gold Standard?

  Published 18 December 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Many of us see hair-curling rates of price inflation not too far down the road. Today inflation is hardly noticeable. But what's coming will be…

• Navigating the US's Politicized Economy

  Published 12 October 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Absent the state's involvement in the workings of the marketplace, an investor's central task would be to evaluate companies for their ability to efficiently produce…

• How Far to the Wall?

  Published 18 April 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Decades of manipulation by the Federal Reserve (through its creation of paper money) and by Congress (through its taxing and spending) have pushed the US…

• Doing the Roth Arithmetic

  Published 10 April 2012 | viewed 0 times

  It's clear to me, even though it may not be clear to you, that unless there is something very unusual about your situation, if you…

• Putting a Gleam in Your IRA

  Published 01 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  You likely have seen invitations to open a "Gold IRA" or something with a similar name. Perhaps you should, but before you do, think about…

• An Investment Whose Time Has Passed

  Published 03 November 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Money market funds began as a bright and useful idea, became a habit, and recently have become a bad habit. Money market funds were invented…

• Economically Sleepwalking

  Published 18 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The rebound from the recent recession is the slowest economic comeback in living memory - so slow that some doubt whether it is happening at…

• 3 Ways to Shelter Your Cash from Inflation

  Published 08 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The high rate of inflation most of us believe is waiting not too far down the road will be an earthquake for investment markets. The…

• The Five-Million-Dollar Reason for Going Offshore

  Published 31 March 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Just when you thought there was nothing more the U.S. government could do to motivate you to ship your financial life offshore, they came up…

• Later Is Now: Profiting from Rising Interest Rates

  Published 11 February 2011 | viewed 0 times

  In the fall of 2008, the Federal Reserve responded to the Lehman bankruptcy by igniting a rapid expansion in the U.S. money supply. It did…

• Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lender

  Published 09 February 2011 | viewed 0 times

  It was Otto von Bismarck who explained that "politics is the art of the possible." We can thank him for that much, but he didn't…

• The Long Swim - How the Fed Could Become Insolvent

  Published 04 January 2011 | viewed 0 times

  You've seen the proof in real time. Once-dominant industrial companies, e.g., General Motors, can run out of money. The biggest banks, e.g., Bank of America,…

• When to Sell Gold

  Published 11 November 2010 | viewed 0 times

  By now you have plenty of reason to congratulate yourself for having boarded the gold bandwagon. The early tickets are the cheap ones, and you've…

• Expatriate Your Wallet

  Published 11 August 2010 | viewed 0 times

  If everything you own is held in your own name in your own country, then you are not merely exposed, you are vulnerable absolutely, to…

• The Year of the Roth

  Published 30 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Until 2010 arrived, you couldn't have a Roth IRA if your income exceeded certain limits. That restriction is gone. Now anyone with a traditional IRA…

• When Will Inflation Really Hit Us?

  Published 23 October 2009 | viewed 4,574 times

  Most of us are gathered at the station, watching for the Inflation Express to come rumbling in. But we've been waiting for a while now.…

• The Road to Zimbabwe

  Published 29 September 2009 | viewed 5,656 times

  Sprinkled among all the official talk about efforts to end the current recession, you'll hear assurances, notably from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, that when…

• Nothing

  Published 10 April 2009 | viewed 4,942 times

  We don't yet know how many trillions will be swallowed up by the government's rapidly breeding herd of stimulus-bailout-help!help! measures. But additional bold steps are…