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Thread asks: Is gold or silver the better investment? I would say Neither, TIPs are better, especially if held in a tax defered account, so not yet collected income avoids current year taxation. Precious metals offer only possible appreciation and historically over almost any period of a...

I already exposed how ill informed Tom B is 6 posts back, but could not then document my source. Here is more of the same, from another with source, which is given: “… Brazil has also proven that it has a strong consumer base of its own ready and able to fuel economic growth, even as...

A few days ago I read (in an article from Motley Fools, I think, but only copied it without recording the link) the following to answer your question (Selected part of a long article): {Brazil’s} “highly professional central bank, which, independent of political pressures, kept real...

In support of my just made claims (prior post) about SouthAmerica's wrong POV on the new Brazilian 2% IOF tax vs. mine: Following from thread: "Here is why the world’s smart money is being invested in Brazil." of the "Economics" forum...

I too think the dollar will lose most of its current purchasing power before China collects much of the oil, etc.. China has promised 10billion dollars as a loan to be repaid by 200,000 barrels of oil / day for 20 years, as I recall. This is but a small part of China's wise efforts to both...

I think you have it exactly backwards. Much of the FDI into Brazil is "dollar carry trade" due to the very low cost of borrowing in USA and very high real rate of return in Brazil. In past when the IOF (at 1.5%, now 2%) existed, it applied to both the entry and exit of funds, so that is a 4%...

Advise others, for a fee, how to get rich off dollar decline. :cool:

One right out of three tries is failing in my score book. True I am sort of pink in skin color at least. Since when has total elimination of all corporate taxation (and their associated tax lawyer expenses) been high on the "commie agenda" ? :D If "fag" has it usual reference, and it is...

"Ain't necessarily so." For example I am a retired US citizen, but I no longer live in USA. I would not even be cheating when I pay no taxes on my US investment earnings under a pure consumption tax. :D The OP's tax plan taxes every US citizen by the same simple formula, regardless of...

The AMT not be very popular is a help in getting tax reform along the radical reform lines the OP suggests as it and 99% of all the current tax code has been eliminated in the suggested tax code, which treats everyone exactly the same. As far as the argument between the "tax and spend"...

An earlier version of the "definitions, information and examples" sheet mentioned in the OP, can be found at: http://www.sciforums.com/showpost.php?p=1792841&postcount=1 but I will only revise and post it here if some interest or suggestions replies are made. I wish to correct two omissions...

As one who occasionally trades dollars for ever fewer Reais, I cannot get very enthusiastic about an additional 200 billion dollars coming to Brazil, driving the value of the Real even higher. Brazil already suffers from the "Dutch Disease." (I.e. "De-industrialization" of high labor cost...

US Federal Tax Law is too complex and inefficient because it is “central planning” (social engineering) in disguise. :mad: Below is a suggested alternative, which fits on an index card, but there is one sheet of paper required for the definitions of various terms, like “income” and...

I am not SA. I have some disagreements with him and have posted them. For example he thinks it wise for Brazil to have built it reserves up from about 50 billion to 200 billion*, but I do not as they issued local bonds in Real (now paying about 12% to "sterilize" the Real that they paid out to...

Inflation is less than 4.5% and well controlled for a decade now. The Real is world leader in appreciation against the dollar in last year (up 18+%) - In part by "carry trade" but mainly by commodities. Brazil is net exporter of oil, world leader in several agricultural exports, including...

Not only "life" It is physics and economics also that is blocking hydrogen. IMHO, most of the noise about hydrogen is oil company diversion. They know it will not be able to displace oil and fear tropical alcohol which can. Already has in Brazil - more than half of the cars burn only alcohol...

You should be as it is at least 95% true. Certainly, it is now very dangerous to illegally cut down a forest in Brazil – not only huge fines but jail time if not politically well conected. – A few years ago a simple man cut some bark for a tree to make a tea for his sick wife and got time in...

That is technically true, but the article begins under an photo of a small forest patch, which is surrounded by soy bean fields. Then continues on the first page to state: “There's a frontier feel to the southern Amazon right now. {An understandable, but missleading, way to refer to part...

The part of your post above I made bold is False. Thanks for the link, but please read my four comments following extracts from that TIME article (in blue below) and my {brief inserts} in TIME’s text below: A summary of my POV is: TIME either distorted or did not understand the...

I will if I can, but live in Brazil. Please indicate if it is speaking of the US corn based alcohol when stating that is "unstainable" or including sugar cane alcohol grow in or near the troppics. I agree that a petroleum based economy is "unstainable" (Peak oil it real- only when is...