Comments on: The Growing Tax Threats to Your Investment Portfolio

By: Linda E.

Linda E. — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:10:13 +0000

There is as big a difference between short selling and naked short selling as there is between borrowing a hundred dollars and counterfeiting a hundred dollar federal reserve note. Also, I would be willing to pay a transaction fee if it would stop or slow the outrageous amount of rapid, computer-generated stock trading that is making a mockery of investing.

By: Akinniyi Ebenezer Rotimi

Akinniyi Ebenezer Rotimi — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:49:25 +0000

Hi investment u,
I most confess to u that i usually enjoy your messages. In order not to waste much time, i will tell u that a good businessman most be ready to take reasonable and measurable risk when investing. In buiness, you must take risk due to to diversity in the economies in the world as it is not the same in must countries. Being in Nigeria doing business is not easy. The economy is very harsh but people with great guts still make it. I’m into fish farming now. Can u believe that when we started this business it was very difficult to recover even half of the investment, but today being the third year in the business i would say the business is now growing as we are now realizing some profits.
No business can operate in vacuum like i do say. You must go places and expand before u can succeed. From my experience, i believe mossst businesses today is a challenge and it involves risk. It is now left to u as an investor to now where your shoe pinches u and make amendments. Thanks.
Akinniyi E.R.
a.k.a Ebony.

By: Bill Woodbridge

Bill Woodbridge — Mon, 31 May 2010 03:46:41 +0000

With all due respect Dr. Skousen it might be helpful to delineate between genuine investment and speculation and the rigged casino game pulled by certain Wall St. firms like Government Sachs. The beginning of this article appears to provide carte blanche cover for everything that goes on on Wall St. Kudos to Brian Paulson’s comment.

By: Robert Gillies

Robert Gillies — Sun, 30 May 2010 22:01:58 +0000

You can move to Panama like I have done. And marry a Panamanian girl like I have done, Then you open a brokerage account in her name. The only problem is that half the women in Panama have bipolar so be careful. Also they might do more damage to your pocketbook than Uncle Sam. Actually I don’t have enough of money to benefit from Panama being a tax haven but it is a nice tropical place to retire. Sure beats Florida.

By: Lee Walker

Lee Walker — Wed, 26 May 2010 13:40:30 +0000

If left unchecked government is inherently socialistic, commanding more power and wealth from its citizens (subjects?). Increasing taxes increases the price of the taxed product or service, and by economic law the output/consumption is reduced. The economic engine that provides the tax can be so throttled that the tax rate may be increased but the net result is a decrease in total tax return! Trying to get around the variance by a flat fee tax can actually kill the economic engine completely and bring zero tax return. Politician have little or no understanding of economics. The Fair Tax Act has been available for years that answers the dilema, but has been denied even a hearing on the floor.

By: ruth harbour

ruth harbour — Tue, 25 May 2010 07:18:32 +0000

I sure would like to know how to go about investing in Hong Kong.

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By: Venkatesh Rao

Venkatesh Rao — Tue, 25 May 2010 06:12:03 +0000

This as a desperate effort to defend the indefensible. After the global meltdown, do defend the free market system in raltion to stock trading looks pathetic.

By: E Bell

E Bell — Mon, 24 May 2010 20:21:01 +0000

I’m all for the tax on stock trades. It won’t hurt individual investors since they/we don’t do a lot of trading. But it’s the traders, hedge funds, bankers who trade hugh volumes of funds for fast profits and who have no interest in the consequence of their trades on market movement who will have to give up part of their profits.
They have caused a lot of damage so let them pay for it. We need tough market regulation but that won’t happen.

By: Gerard N. Altieri

Gerard N. Altieri — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:56:51 +0000

I don’t understand what you mean by “awaiting mderation”