Many are worried about the impending tax changes on capital gains and trust distributions. Investors are wondering if they should change their investment strategy. Looking at history, we’ve seen this happen before.
In the good old, brutal days, an empire faced a clean, honest choice: it devoured its rivals, or its rivals devoured it. Victory paid dividends you could weigh and count — booty, tribute, and slaves.
Even the planet seems to have turned against the US empire.
Australian tax rates are so high that only tax efficient investments make sense. Be it Super, negative gearing or franking credits. But they won’t last.
Modern democracies were built on a fraud — the sweet fantasy that people would be better off as the feds bossed them around and spent more and more of their money.
Imposing a 20% fed funds rate would be catastrophic. The whole financial system — in the US and much of the rest of the world — would shrivel up. Because we have 40 times as much federal debt.
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