Comments on: Lessons from the intelligence business http://www.sovereignman.com/finance/lessons-from-the-intelligence-business/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:11:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Peter Mac - Q Wealth http://www.sovereignman.com/finance/lessons-from-the-intelligence-business/comment-page-1/#comment-4224 Peter Mac - Q Wealth Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:38:06 +0000 http://www.sovereignman.com/?p=1285#comment-4224 Wow! Slightly off topic comment, but that truly shocked me that you were focusing on Soviet tactics 10 years after the wall fell. And that's why the US wasn't prepared for 9/11. Sure it's important to study history and look at Soviet tactics, Nazi tactics, Roman tactics and whatever... but one would think US intelligence could have managed to be a little more forward looking. Whilst I'm not a fan of intelligence agencies while they focus resources to spying on people like us who don't like governments but don't harm anybody - quite the contrary, we are productive - I do believe that if the USA could properly connect to the rest of the world, have int operatives doing the kind of relationship building you are talking about, it could make the world a safer place for all of us. Typical example of stupidity that comes to mind: US intelligence doesn't like to hire people with dual citizenship because of perceived lack of loyalty and patriotism... yet that is EXACTLY the kind of person they need to do the job properly, people with the cultural understanding and sensitivity that is necessary. Wow! Slightly off topic comment, but that truly shocked me that you were focusing on Soviet tactics 10 years after the wall fell. And that’s why the US wasn’t prepared for 9/11. Sure it’s important to study history and look at Soviet tactics, Nazi tactics, Roman tactics and whatever… but one would think US intelligence could have managed to be a little more forward looking. Whilst I’m not a fan of intelligence agencies while they focus resources to spying on people like us who don’t like governments but don’t harm anybody – quite the contrary, we are productive – I do believe that if the USA could properly connect to the rest of the world, have int operatives doing the kind of relationship building you are talking about, it could make the world a safer place for all of us. Typical example of stupidity that comes to mind: US intelligence doesn’t like to hire people with dual citizenship because of perceived lack of loyalty and patriotism… yet that is EXACTLY the kind of person they need to do the job properly, people with the cultural understanding and sensitivity that is necessary.

]]> By: LookingToLeave http://www.sovereignman.com/finance/lessons-from-the-intelligence-business/comment-page-1/#comment-4216 LookingToLeave Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:13:41 +0000 http://www.sovereignman.com/?p=1285#comment-4216 Simon, Taking this information into account, do you have any suggestions for someone who plans on possibly using physical gold as a way to move their wealth out of the U.S.? I'll be leaving sometime between April and August, and was thinking of starting to buy physical gold on a regular basis, to kind of dollar-cost-average my purchases. However, I'd like to avoid the risk of ending up losing 10-25% of my money doing that- which sounds like a very possible result in the scenario you describe. Since I'm somewhat leery of using options or futures (who knows if/when the government will step in and 'fix' that market, plus, that is far from my area of expertise), it sounds like I may be best off just waiting until a week or two before leaving, convert my dollars to gold, then convert some of that back into local currency once I land in my destination country. Any other ideas? Thanks Simon,

Taking this information into account, do you have any suggestions for someone who plans on possibly using physical gold as a way to move their wealth out of the U.S.? I’ll be leaving sometime between April and August, and was thinking of starting to buy physical gold on a regular basis, to kind of dollar-cost-average my purchases. However, I’d like to avoid the risk of ending up losing 10-25% of my money doing that- which sounds like a very possible result in the scenario you describe.

Since I’m somewhat leery of using options or futures (who knows if/when the government will step in and ‘fix’ that market, plus, that is far from my area of expertise), it sounds like I may be best off just waiting until a week or two before leaving, convert my dollars to gold, then convert some of that back into local currency once I land in my destination country. Any other ideas?

Thanks

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