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		<title>America&#8217;s Big Unspoken Problem</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indeed there are plenty of problems facing the United States of America today. Of course, there have always been problems and probably always will. It&#8217;s the nature of things. There are lots of things one can do about problems. You could panic. You could consult with friends. You could write down a plan. You might [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-401" title="Unspoken problems" src="http://themainerace.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Employee-290x300.jpg" alt="Employee 290x300 Americas Big Unspoken Problem" width="235" height="243" />Indeed there are plenty of problems facing the United States of America today. Of course, there have always been problems and probably always will. It&#8217;s the nature of things. There are lots of things one can do about problems. You could panic. You could consult with friends. You could write down a plan. You might have to take immediate action. Every problem is different. The one action that most agree  is a bad idea is ignoring a problem. Even worse is to adapt behaviors that help the problem along.</p>
<p>The Federal Reserve is the one of the biggest problems facing America today and it is being ignored and in fact being made worse in many ways.  Front runner Presidential candidates never mention those words and when someone does there is an uneasy feeling in the air, especially in debates. Of course, the only people who will dare say those words in a debate have been marginalized and in my humble opinion it seems like no coincidence.</p>
<p>People might ask, what does a federal government bank have to do with our nation&#8217;s problems? For starters it is federal in name only. The Federal Reserve Bank is not part of our government. It is privately owned. It is an international bank with private owners. Well, you would think with a name like that it would be part of the government.  Why would a name be chosen to disguise what they are? Precisely for the reason you would suspect. They didn&#8217;t want people to know what they are all about.</p>
<p>Unfortunately people aren&#8217;t generally concerned with how things work. They don&#8217;t want to see the big picture or gain knowledge about the world in which they will live. It&#8217;s this nature of many people that helped the Federal Reserve Bank do their thing.</p>
<p>To illustrate the point,  here&#8217;s a simple overview and how the problem might manifest itself in a real life example.</p>
<p>Throughout history the world has had banks, bankers and money lenders. People sometimes need money in the form of loans for various reasons. The general practice is that if you borrowed $1,000 you would have to pay it back over a specified time at a certain rate of interest which is agreed upon by both parties. Okay, nothing dangerous about that. Now imagine that a government needs money. The government has a war to fight and a clever banker agrees to lend a sum of money to that government. Of course, to lend such a large repayment of the loan must be guaranteed. So in return the government promises to guarantee the loan repayment in the form of taxes levied on its people. Not very smart or fair.</p>
<p>This type of banking relationship has been developed by international bankers for centuries. These banks become the nation&#8217;s central bank. More or less, this means that a government may owe large sums of money to this central bank and the taxes must be taken from the people to pay it back. Not only that the central private bank controls how much money goes into circulation, thus dictating the worth of the currency. So, in essence, the more dollars that get printed unwisely the less the money is worth.</p>
<p>To clarify this point let&#8217;s briefly use a current example. The federal government has just approved spending 1.4 billion dollars to give to Mexico. The money will be used to help secure Mexico&#8217;s southern border from illegal immigrants crossing into Mexico (you read that right). The 1.4 billion dollars will be borrowed from a private internationally owned bank called the Federal Reserve Bank. The money will be printed out of thin air. As soon as the money goes out into the world the interest meter starts running, so to speak. Now keep in mind that the 1.4 billion and the interest for the money borrowed and spent are owed to a private international bank whereby the loan is guaranteed by the payment of your taxes.</p>
<p>So the government has decided to spend money we don&#8217;t have on fixing the illegal immigration problem of another country. The printing of the money weakens our dollar. Further, the dollar is basically worthless because we are printing it out of thin air and it is backed by no real value like gold or silver (another problem caused by The Fed). To top it all off, you get to pay back the loan on this absurd government spending by taking a large chunk of money out of your paycheck, which is now worth less because we weakened the dollar borrowing and printing the money. Let&#8217;s not forget, the government will take money you earned from your paycheck before you will be able. We have to pay the government first in the form of higher taxes because of a weakened dollar to pay for spending this money to correct a problem in Mexico? Oh, please be aware that the taxes collected by the Federal Reserve Bank&#8217;s virtual collection agency, the IRS, goes to pay down just the interest on the money the government has borrowed from this privately held business &#8211;  owned by a relative few international bankers. Many of these bankers are from a long line of baking families which hold sway over most of the major countries on this planet. It&#8217;s kind of a scary thought don&#8217;t you think?  There is a lot of informal political power behind the purse strings of central banks of many nations.</p>
<p>If that&#8217;s not enough, I will just point out quickly an uncanny coincidence.   It states in the constitution that taxing income is unconstitutional. However, the 16th amendment was passed rather shadily, and according to some, illegally. It went through in a very shady manner three weeks before the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was passed in a very shady manner, as well. Remember the deal with the international central banks. They will happily be your nation&#8217;s central bank as long as the loans are guaranteed by taxes. The timing and circumstances seem strange.</p>
<p>The Federal Reserve Bank is America&#8217;s big problem. Handing over of this power to a small group of international banker&#8217;s compromises our economic well being. It gives enormous control to a small group of people whose first interest is profit and power.  These individuals are international in nature, not American, so their interests are not consistent with America or any other independent country. It could be said that they are the root of globalism. Nationalism gets in the way of their business interests.  Some even seem to think these international banking empires represent the push for international / global law and taxes (i.e. carbon tax).  You see, the problem goes much deeper. But don&#8217;t take my word for it.</p>
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		<title>World Bank</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ World Bank is an indispensable part of the World Bank Group. The World Bank is comprised of two agencies of the World Bank Group namely the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development or IBRD and the International Development Association or IDA.
The World Bank came into existence in the year 1945. But the concept was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-389" title="World Bank Image" src="http://themainerace.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/bridge3-300x225.jpg" alt="bridge3 300x225 World Bank" width="260" height="196" /> World Bank is an indispensable part of the World Bank Group. The World Bank is comprised of two agencies of the World Bank Group namely the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development or IBRD and the International Development Association or IDA.</p>
<p>The World Bank came into existence in the year 1945. But the concept was developed in a year before at United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference.</p>
<p>185 Countries of the world hold World Bank membership. These member countries are the shareholders of World Bank who play a vital role in World Bank&#8217;s Policy Decisions. The five most prominent members who hold substantial shares of World Bank are France, Germany, Japan, U.K and U.S.A. Among these five the largest shareholder is the United States. So, U.S.A holds the power to nominate the President of World Bank. Other 184 members cast their votes. But as the Voting Power of the member countries are determined by their wealth and their share in World Bank, the election process of the World Bank President is used to be quite unfair.</p>
<p>World Bank was established with the noble cause of helping the poor people all over the world. From the first day, the World Bank activities concentrated upon  Reduction of Global Poverty as Elimination of Global Poverty was the main aim of the Organization. To achieve its objective the World Bank decided on providing Low Interest Loans and even No Interest Loans to the poor economies which were in urgent need of it. Following this plan of action the World Bank sanctioned a huge loan of $250 million to France within two years of its establishment. This loan money was used for post war reconstruction of France.</p>
<p>To bring sustained economic development in the underdeveloped and developing economies of the world, World Bank determined four major steps to be followed. The plan of action of the World Bank included Infrastructure Creation, Capacity Building, Development of Efficient Financial Systems and Eradication of Corruption.</p>
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		<title>Banking Supervision Issues</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The global development of financial organizations has lead to existence of multinational financial institutions, raising the question about the form of regulation and supervision for them. Such cross-border arrangements of financial activities might have some, although not quite clear, implications on the domestic structure of regulation through several channels. For example, small countries dominated by [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-384" title="Banking Supervision Issues Image" src="http://themainerace.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/blue-300x300.jpg" alt="blue 300x300 Banking Supervision Issues" width="251" height="251" />The global development of financial organizations has lead to existence of multinational financial institutions, raising the question about the form of regulation and supervision for them. Such cross-border arrangements of financial activities might have some, although not quite clear, implications on the domestic structure of regulation through several channels. For example, small countries dominated by the foreign banks may relax supervisory activity and thus “import regulation” from stable economies. (Goodhart 2001)<br />
Global financial interconnections certainly involve the need of international cooperation of regulatory activities coping problems like for example provision of financial support to troubled international bank. As Ferguson (2000) argues, longer experience of and closer inter-linkages to international cooperation of central banks make them more suitable for accomplishing supervisory activities as well. However, as Goodhart (2001) suggests, such collaboration is not expected to be damaged by sending two representatives from separated monetary authority and supervisory agency instead of one representative from the united body to international meetings.<br />
The multinationalization of the financial sector might influence the ability of the central bank to conduct monetary policy, which in its turn might affect supervisory arrangement decision. The monetary policy ability largely depends on the exchange rate regime choice. As Goodhart (2001) argues, the floating exchange rate regime still allows the central bank to control short-term interest rate and growth rate of monetary aggregates regardless the global scale of country’s financial sector, while under the fixed exchange rate regime the ability of the central bank to influence monetary instruments under the existence of international financial entities becomes fairly weak. He further elaborates that in the case of the irrevocably fixed exchange rate, the central bank completely loses any ability of controlling macroeconomic monetary policy leaving it without function unless supervision. Moreover, the capacity of the central bank to accomplish functions like the LOLR or deposit insurance is limited (partially due to the increase of sizes of banks in the light of the multinationalization of the financial sector, or as a result of, for example, subsidiarity to the ECB) consequently leaving the central bank largely dependent on fiscal authorities, namely the Ministry of Finance (MOF) to make money available for such financial interventions. Such circumstances make the LOLR function more fiscal rather than monetary matter. Thus, Goodhart (2001) concludes that the role of the central bank to pursuit financial stability depends more on its relationships with the fiscal authorities under the international financial system than otherwise it would be.<br />
Furthermore, under the multinationalization of the financial sector, supervisory authority in one country is concerned with the financial stability in another country which gives rise to concerns about supervisory standards abroad. But since such concerns are bilateral, it has been easily met by agreements on minimal principles or codes in these activities, which as Goodhart (2001) suggests has proliferated at an almost exponential rate during recent years. But codes will have an effect on the behavior of financial institutions only under the existence of credible and fair punishment schemes, for which “naming and shaming” or even exclusion from a financial market could easily serve.<br />
The multinationalization of financial institutions largely strengthened inter-linkage between the health of financial systems of different countries increasing the possibility of contagion effect of financial crisis of one country on the other. This and supervisory concerns abroad, which was mentioned above, have generated the need of international monitoring of supervision and regulation elsewhere. But such need still does not have unambiguous implication for the domestic regulatory organization; there have been proposals of solutions to this problem regardless the domestic structure. Namely, as Goodhart (2001) suggests, international monitoring might be successfully accomplished by international financial agencies like IMF, BIS, IBRD or self-regulation of regulators.<br />
One more important concern is international competition of regulation and supervision created by the ability of multinational financial entities to accordingly change geographical locations. As Greenspan (1994) claims, the single micro-level regulator might have its own separated objective and lose macroeconomic implications of its own actions. (in Goodhart 2001) Such incentive structure would lead them to over-regulation preventing efficiency-generating international competition and innovation. In contrast to this theoretical argument, the empirical study of Di Noia and Di Giorgio (2000) shows that countries with central banks with combined monetary and supervisory functions tend to be associated with more regulated and less developed financial system. They find that for countries where supervision is accomplished solely by the central bank, banks have higher profits at the same time having higher operating costs, which they explain by reduced competition as a result of stricter regulation of “monopolist” supervisor – the central bank. (The list of countries with correspondent regulatory structure is given in the appendix) But they do not test for the possibility that reduced competition and combined regulatory functions might be the result of the same source creating spurious regression, which makes given causality debatable and thus empirical evidence on the complete advantage of any model questionable. Furthermore, as Goodhart (2001) indicates, reduction of international competition of regulatory schemes nonetheless takes place by ongoing harmonization of supervisory and regulatory rules between countries.<br />
International concerns raised by the multinationalization of financial entities can be met with multilateral agreements among countries regardless of the domestic regulatory structure, making this argument for separation of supervisory function from the central bank less important.</p>
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		<title>International Business and Finance Infrastructure</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Infrastructure development is crucial in every country that wants to escalate forward in their economic status. However, there are those that cannot afford because of the lack of resources. The World Bank, established in 1994, is such a vital spring in international business and finance that has been assisting countries all over the world.
It is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-382" title="International Business and Finance Infrastructure Image" src="http://themainerace.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/beach7-300x225.jpg" alt="beach7 300x225 International Business and Finance Infrastructure" width="258" height="193" />Infrastructure development is crucial in every country that wants to escalate forward in their economic status. However, there are those that cannot afford because of the lack of resources. The World Bank, established in 1994, is such a vital spring in international business and finance that has been assisting countries all over the world.<br />
It is not a bank, as the name suggests, but it is a global organization that is made up of two special progressive institutions. This international business and finance source consists of 184 nations together with the International Bank for Reconstruction &amp; Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IAD).<br />
Each has a specific responsibility supportive of its mission to alleviate poverty and lifestyle improvements. The International Bank for Reconstruction &amp; Development (IBRD) concentrates on middle income and creditworthy poor regions while the International Development Association (IDA) is on the poorest regions in the globe. Both offers low- interest loans and interest- free credit that also provides education, health, communications and other beneficial purposes.<br />
This international business and finance group also has its own affiliates like the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). IFC grants advisory services, loans, structured finance, equity and management products that build the private sector in developing countries. MIGA promotes global immediate investment into developing nations to assist economic growth, improve lives and reduce poverty. ICSID imparts facilities for the pacification and mediation of feuds between member countries and investors.<br />
Some of the members of World Bank are Afghanistan, Albania, Barbuda, Belize, Chile, China, Denmark, Dominica, Ecuador, Egypt, Guinea, Germany, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia,. Korea, Kuwait, Jordan, Jamaica, Kenya, Kazakhstan, Libya, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Pakistan, Panama, Poland, Philippines, Romania, Rwanda, Samoa, Senegal, Thailand, Tanzania, Uganda, Ukraine, Venezuela, Vanuatu, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, it has a total of 184; 165 for International Development Association; 178 for International Finance Corporation; 167 for Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency and 143 for International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes.<br />
Since it is an international business and finance cooperative, the shareholders are represented by a Board of Governors. They gather every once a year at the Annual Meetings to make policies as well as discuss about the International Monetary Fund. Since their convention only happens very seldom, they delegate specific responsibilities to about 24 executive directors who work on- site at the headquarters located in Washington D.C. The biggest depositors are United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan and United States who are the ones who appoint. At present, the president of World Bank is Paul Wolfowitz who holds a five- year and renewable term. He is accountable for the overall management of the organization and chairs meetings that are called for.</p>
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		<title>ClickBank Affiliate Marketing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before going into the main content let us know what exactly Click bank is. Founded in 1998, ClickBank is the online retail outlet for publishers of Downloadable digital product and for their active affiliates and millions of online shoppers.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-378" title="Click Bank Affiliate" src="http://themainerace.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/money1-300x269.jpg" alt="money1 300x269 ClickBank Affiliate Marketing" width="240" height="216" />Before going into the main content let us know what exactly Click bank is. Founded in 1998, ClickBank is the online retail outlet for publishers of Downloadable digital product and for their active affiliates and millions of online shoppers.</p>
<p>Do you too aspire to become a Click Bank achiever and hope to fly high through your Hoplink ?</p>
<p>Then read the Click Bank site thread bear. There are much to see and learn in the Click Bank site if you want to plan for starting your affiliate marketing career with a quick success.</p>
<p>You shall identify yourself everywhere inside Click Bank. Because, it is too lucrative as an affiliate marketing website for affiliates and Publishers , too easy to act upon, too clear in terms and instructions for new affiliates &amp; publishers, and too prompt in making payments to ignore the appeal and appetite! But without a read into the matters, it always remains a unmet dream.</p>
<p>Sustaining for long 10 years with rapid growth despite growing competition from other affiliates is not a small achievement. There must be some secret.</p>
<p>This article intend to focus on the important features of Click Bank that are generally overlooked by most of the affiliates and publishers.</p>
<p>Part A:</p>
<p>Afilliates&#8217; function is to promote the e-Books, software products,subscription products etc. available in the C/Bank Market Place. Affiliates don&#8217;t require to pay any fees or price for the products. After FREE registration with C/Bank they get their ready promotion links called Hoplinks from C/bank site itself which feature each individual product the affiliate intends to promote. The moment the product is sold the affiliate&#8217;s account inflates with commission amount which goes upto 75% of the product price.</p>
<p>What not to ignore</p>
<p>1.FAQ Library :<br />
One of the salient features of Click bank is the huge FAQ library comprising 4 categories and 13 subcategories there under totaling 214 questions along with elaborate answers to all of them (with appropriate links to appropriate contents within the site for easy navigation ) leaves very little unclear to any aspirant affiliate or publisher or shopper. FAQ for affiliates, Publishers, Customers are categorized separately. Before starting affiliate business one must go through the Affiliate FAQ &amp; General Account help which contains all the issues and questions related to Account FAQ , Accounting FAQ, Market Place FAQ, Recurring Billing FAQ and Stats FAQ. Additionally, I suggest that an affiliate should also know the issues pertaining to Publishers too. So, an affiliate aspirant also should go through publishers FAQ too.</p>
<p>2.Hoplink :</p>
<p>Hoplink is a link that a customer follows to reach at the publishers&#8217; site and make the purchase. You get one hoplink for each product you promote. It contains the ID of the publisher of the product and your (affiliate&#8217;s) ID called &#8216;nickname&#8217;. This ensures the affiliate of getting the commission against that purchase credited to his or her account .Also the automatic mechanism tells the product publisher which affiliate sold the product, however he don&#8217;t get access to any personal information of the affiliate. The commission transfer is an automatic mechanism powered by a state of the art technological tool. A hoplink looks like: http://AFFILIATE.PUBLISHER.hop.clickbank.net<br />
Setting up the hoplink is very easy and you can test its functionality readily from you own computer without any additional software. For exact information read Hoplink FAQ No.23 .Note that the hoplink ends in &#8220;.net&#8221; and not .By default a hoplink is targeted to the top level of current browser page. But you can make the hoplink open in a new window or as pop-under or pop-up too.</p>
<p>You can add a tracking code to your hoplink which tracks your affiliate campaign and manifests the results of each successful campaign in all relevant documents.( Affiliate FAQ No.6)</p>
<p>3.60 days tracking :<br />
After you make a referral, you will earn a commission if the customer purchases any product from that within 60 days. This means , if a customer does not make an a purchase from your hoplink immediately but waits you shall be credited with the commission if he make the purchase within 60 days.</p>
<p>4.Direct Deposit:</p>
<p>US bank accounts and certain International Bank Accounts are directly deposited without any extra charge from Click Bank. However for US bank accounts to become eligible for direct deposit , the a/c must have received minimum 3 paper paychecks from Click bank within previous 12 weeks period. For international a/c this period is 90 days ( almost equal).</p>
<p>5. Payment Threshhold :</p>
<p>Default payment threshold is $100 . But from your account page you can change the threshold any amount from $10 to $ 10000. $2.5 processing charge is deducted from each payment.</p>
<p>6.Recurring Billing:</p>
<p>Recurring billing is a uniqueness of Click bank. (Read the Recurring Billing FAQ under General Account help in FAQ library.)It&#8217;s a fully automated mechanism through you can promote (sale) subscription products and single products billing in installments. All accounts are automatically enabled for recurring billing products requiring no special set up efforts.</p>
<p>Subscriptions allow you to sell and promote products and services, for example software licenses and membership sites, where customers receive ongoing value. ClickBank recurring billing subscriptions allow you to customize your regularly scheduled customer payments with following features :<br />
· The ability to have a lower initial price<br />
· The ability to offer a trial period<br />
· The ability to select from new rebilling frequency options<br />
The minimum initial price is $4.95 and minimum rebill price $7.95. For recurring billing subscriptions ClickBank offers bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual recurring billing.</p>
<p>Recurring billing products are easy to locate in the Click Bank Market Place .Just look for products that contain a value in the &#8220;future$&#8221; statistic.The affiliate earns for each and every rebilling whenver the customer make the payment . ( This is a broad lay out of Click bank Recurring Billing. Detail focus will be presented in future article)</p>
<p>7. Stats FAQ :</p>
<p>This is a section in the Click bank website which gives you detail of your transaction as an Affiliate. You can view your actions and their results from any angle you desire to see. This section is very important to track growth of your business as a whole as well as in all desired break up which in turn let you plan your future strategy.</p>
<p>However, at the end of this part of this article I will suggest that you should read the Account FAQ, Accounting FAQ, Recurring Billing FAQ and Stats FAQ more deeply than all other.</p>
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		<title>Offshore Banking &amp; Asset Protection Center</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are a law firm which means you have attorney client privilege – We specialize in Offshore Asset Protection. All of your affairs handled with us are covered by attorney client privilege which means that we could not reveal anything about you or your affairs without your specific permission or unless we were ordered to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-375" title="Offshore Banking &amp; Asset Protection Center Image" src="http://themainerace.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/airport-limo-300x192.jpg" alt="airport limo 300x192 Offshore Banking & Asset Protection Center" width="260" height="166" />We are a law firm which means you have attorney client privilege – We specialize in Offshore Asset Protection. All of your affairs handled with us are covered by attorney client privilege which means that we could not reveal anything about you or your affairs without your specific permission or unless we were ordered to do so by a Panama Court (not a common occurrence). You can benefit from the legal protection and security of dealing with a licensed Panama Law Firm. If you buy an offshore corporation, offshore trust, offshore foundation or an offshore bank account from a non- law firm they could freely reveal your confidential information which they collect from you like name address, passport, name of corporation, bank account information etc. without any statutory penalties, in other words you do not have the benefit of attorney client privilege. Some of these corporate resale agents say they have some sort of financial privacy protections but it is flimsy and cursory at best.</p>
<p>Start here to learn more about why you should use a law firm for Offshore Asset Protection</p>
<p>Why use Panama – Panama is currently the new Switzerland and is also the number one retirement haven in the world. Panama does not tax offshore derived income, capital gains, etc. All tax violations in Panama are civil offenses, none are criminal and Panama has no tax treaties with any country. Panama actually requires all corporations to be formed by a lawyer to protect the privacy of their 400,000 corporations on file thus ensuring renewals each year. Panama cares about privacy, bank secrecy and asset protection. We only deal in Panama which is considered to be the most private jurisdiction in the world today, with the best bank secrecy laws, best corporate and foundation anonymity and strongest attorney client privilege in addition to having world class banks. Panama has no hurricanes, no earthquakes, no active volcanoes and no tsunamis which is why the Panama Canal was built here. So you do not have to worry about being unable to contact your bank by internet or telephone because a storm just passed over their island. Since we are in Panama we can and will represent any of clients who need legal representation in Panama with affordable rates ($150.00 hour). And yes we do get in our car and go down to the Panama banks representing our clients to open their bank accounts and to resolve any issues or problems that may come up down the road when our clients need our assistance. We are your corporate resident agent and would receive any official notices on behalf of your Panama Corporation or Panama foundation and of course we would understand the notices and could advise you not just say &#8220;hey, you got a document you need to read&#8221;. We are reachable by phone and email seven days a week and of course all communications with us are privileged communications. Always feel free to ask us questions by phone or email.</p>
<p>Panama Banking – Panama boasts of having 150 international banks which is a living testimony to their strong bank secrecy laws please keeping in mind Panama is a country of 2.9 million people and these banks are in Panama City which is only about 9 square miles. All the banks we deal with have online banking including the ability to send international wire transfers. You do not need to come to Panama to open a bank account but you do need to supply reference letters and passport copies. You can even get up to 7% interest on 5 year deposits. The national currency in Panama is the US dollar but some euro accounts are available.</p>
<p>Panama Anonymous Bearer Share Corporation – Such anonymous corporations are called by this term in Spanish &#8211; sociedad anonima. These corporations have no registry or database into which are entered the owners of the corporation. Ownership is through the printed stock certificate called bearer shares. There is no tax on offshore derived income other than the $300 annual tax included in our prices. Transfers of ownership do not have to be reported. With a Panama bearer share corporation wires moving through the wire system are not associated with any natural persons for more privacy. Panama corporations can be formed in 2-3 days. Panama bearer share corporations can own real estate anywhere in the world under Panama law.</p>
<p>Panama Private Interest Foundations – A Panama foundation has a number of advantages. It is like a combination of a corporation trust and will. Foundations have no real owner. The Panama foundation is anonymous. The foundation instructions are kept secret. Foundation assets including bank accounts are generally non-freezable. Foundations can own corporations and real estate.</p>
<p>Panama stock Brokerage – You and or your corporation or foundation can have a Panama Stock brokerage account and play the worlds markets from home. Panama secrecy laws apply.</p>
<p>Panama Passports, Visas and Residency – Panama offer an instant Passport program, a number of exciting and affordable visa programs.</p>
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		<title>The Virtue That Saves is Patience</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It takes some character to exhibit such levels of moral excellence, but did you know that by doing so, you could save money at the same time?  Read on to find out how you can economize by emanating the virtue of patience.
Have the patience to walk instead of drive.  It saves you gas, parking and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-339" title="The Virtue That Saves is Patience Image" src="http://themainerace.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/save-money-293x300.jpg" alt="save money 293x300 The Virtue That Saves is Patience" width="293" height="300" />It takes some character to exhibit such levels of moral excellence, but did you know that by doing so, you could save money at the same time?  Read on to find out how you can economize by emanating the virtue of patience.</p>
<p>Have the patience to walk instead of drive.  It saves you gas, parking and the stresses of driving.  Walking improves your health and well being while saving gas money.</p>
<p>Be patient: compare before you buy.  From personal clothing to health club memberships, from plumbing services to insurance plans, from car accessories to a new home; compare the offers of 3 to 5 suppliers or service providers before finally settling with one.  Let them know that you are taking the time to search the market and they may just be able to offer you the best savings.  Truly, the patient consumer is a winner!</p>
<p>Use coupons as much as possible.  Be patient in cutting them out and going through them before making any purchase.  Pack them together with your grocery bag or in the car so you can use the discount voucher at every opportunity.  One can save $20 &#8211; $50, just by using the coupons.</p>
<p>Track your expenses.  Have the patience to keep your receipts and record all your expenses, no matter how small or frequently they occur.  By doing so, you are made aware of where every single penny goes.  Furthermore, you will know when you have spent too much on clothing, when in fact you still need to settle your credit card balance, or pay the mortgage.  You will have a better hold of your financial health, by patiently tracking your finances.</p>
<p>Hold-off and sleep on it!  If you are about to purchase a $100 item, hold off the purchase until you’ve given it much thought, say sleeping on it for 1-2 nights.  If after such time, you decide that you absolutely need and can afford the purchase, then go ahead.  Nevertheless, you’ll be surprised at how much you can save by just sleeping and thinking things over.</p>
<p>Devote money in long-term investment.  Understand that when you take up long-term investment, you do not need the money for now, and it is not considered as part of your daily finances.  However, such money when set-aside will reap great rewards in the future.</p>
<p>Exude moral excellence by patiently saving for years to come, starting today!</p>
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		<title>Proper Things for Trade Shows</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Preparation is actually still incomplete I guess; there several proper things are still needed for the trade show this company is participating next month. But what are they? What are the forgotten things? It has been a while since our participation in any trade shows two years ago. We were inactive ever since so that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-342" title="Proper Things for Trade Shows Image" src="http://themainerace.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Proper-Things-for-Trade-Shows.jpg" alt="Proper Things for Trade Shows Proper Things for Trade Shows" width="250" height="250" />Preparation is actually still incomplete I guess; there several proper things are still needed for the trade show this company is participating next month. But what are they? What are the forgotten things? It has been a while since our participation in any trade shows two years ago. We were inactive ever since so that we have to make a perfect plan and a good preparation for it.</p>
<p>Samples are actually complete, and the things that will be displayed on our booth are still pretty sufficient. What we have to prepare now is the booth performance itself. I remember how our booth looked like two years ago; we had some <a href="http://www.camelbackdisplays.com/Page_11x.htm" target="_blank">trade show flooring</a> perfectly installed and there were several visitors to our booth admiring it. One of the visitors did not even seem to pay attention much on our products! She steeped on the floor and moved here and there when she finally stopped her feet on our reddish <a href="http://www.camelbackdisplays.com/Page_11x.htm" target="_blank">trade show carpet</a>. Oh My! But I finally understood &#8212; it means that our booth is quite attractive and eye-catching.</p>
<p>This time I have managed to get almost the same things as the last year booth performance but of course we must have something to distract visitors’ attention from the booth background. They are supposed to see our product! Therefore, on most of the decoration background we put our company logo, from the wide wall of the booth until the mats. With the <a href="http://www.camelbackdisplays.com/logo-mats.htm" target="_blank">logo mats</a> written our company names we hope that our visitors will always be reminded where they actually are coming in. That is the best things we are proposing to do.</p>
<p>Another idea of our participation in this year trade show is to use a canopy for our outdoor products. This will take more places and of course more expense to use; however, the idea is not bad at all. Visitors will have a choice whether to get inside our booth for indoor products or visit our <a href="http://www.camelbackdisplays.com/Graphic-Tents.htm" target="_blank">logo canopy</a> for our other outdoor designs. The canopy is certainly printed with the logo of our company hence visitors will never miss our complete products of the year. Anyone takes care in the indoor product booth should always refer our canopy outside to visitors who want to see our outdoor products and the same thing should be done by my people who stay in the canopy to inform our booth to visitor who prefer indoor designs.</p>
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		<title>A Frugal Lifestyle</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word “frugality” has left a more negative connotation for most people than simply being a saver, a cheapskate or tightwad. There is a thin line difference to saving and too much frugality to the point of being awkward and ridiculous. This is where the negative connotation comes from.
But if you are guided with the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-336" title="A Frugal Lifestyle Image" src="http://themainerace.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/women-buy-credit-card-224x300.jpg" alt="women buy credit card 224x300 A Frugal Lifestyle" width="224" height="300" />The word “frugality” has left a more negative connotation for most people than simply being a saver, a cheapskate or tightwad. There is a thin line difference to saving and too much frugality to the point of being awkward and ridiculous. This is where the negative connotation comes from.</p>
<p>But if you are guided with the right principles and reasons in deciding to live a frugal life, you would never go wrong.</p>
<p>If you have decided to live frugally, no need to be worried of insults. Keep your head up high.  And keep your focus through these tips.</p>
<p>1.    Eating Out &#8211; Having gimmicks with friends on a Friday night is fine if you do it once in a while. But this can be expensive if you add them up at the end of the month.</p>
<p>2.    Clothing &#8211; Naturally, if you are the kind of person who adores signature and designer clothes, do not expect that there will be something left of your take home pay. Instead of being trendy, wear clothes that can easily be matched with your other clothes.</p>
<p>3.    Own Home &#8211; If you are planning to move out and find a place to settle, do not be overwhelmed by the excitement, instead be practical. As a start, buy a smaller house or try other ways like rent-to-own, do-it-yourself arrangements, and owner financing.</p>
<p>4.    Buying Your Own Car &#8211; Shy away from sports cars or SUVs. Just stick to your purpose of buying a car which is to transport you anywhere you need to go. Check out also program cars like a new car warranty. Maybe this is not just the best time to replace your car with a new one.</p>
<p>5.    Shopping for Groceries &#8211; As much as possible do not go with items that are branded. Choose non-brands and try looking for items on the highest or lowest shelves for best prices. Grab the opportunity and shop during sales or use coupons.</p>
<p>6.    Family Out &#8211; There are inexpensive ways to bond with your family and be entertained like going to libraries, local parks, malling, picnics, visit friends and local church.</p>
<p>7.    Buying School Supplies &#8211; Stock school supplies at home and do not buy anything fancy.</p>
<p>8.    Be contented with what you have and try to live within what you earn.</p>
<p>9.    Plan your Child’s College Education &#8211; Teach them the ways to be independent and self-supporting by encouraging them to apply for scholarships and “on campus jobs”.</p>
<p>10.    Be Aware of your Financial Limitations</p>
<p>11.    Anticipate your Failures by Planning &#8211; Have always a budget plan so you would avoid impulsive buying.</p>
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		<title>The Bill of Rights History</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We as Americans have a tremendous regard and respect for the framers of our Constitution because it was they that laid the foundation stones for the greatest country on earth.  But on top of the many amazing aspects of the Constitution, one stands out as an act of wisdom and foresight that made sure the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-332" title="The Bill of Rights History Image" src="http://themainerace.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/images53-300x225.jpg" alt="images53 300x225 The Bill of Rights History" width="300" height="225" />We as Americans have a tremendous regard and respect for the framers of our Constitution because it was they that laid the foundation stones for the greatest country on earth.  But on top of the many amazing aspects of the Constitution, one stands out as an act of wisdom and foresight that made sure the Constitution would remain a living document for centuries.  That was the provision of the Constitution that allowed for the addition of amendments.</p>
<p>It was not long after the Constitution was ratified that the first ten amendments were indeed organized and became law.  That those ten amendments have become as central to the American system of government as the Constitution itself (vistaroof.com).  They have come to be known as the Bill of Rights.</p>
<p>The Bill of Rights are so deeply engrained in the American consciousness that they are often referenced in conversations about issues, how Americans work and live together and our relationship with the government.  The true genius of the Bill of Rights was the work it did to severely limit the ability of the government of the United States to ever interfere with the fundamental rights of its citizens.  This is a stunning achievement at a governmental level when you think in terms of legal systems of governments throughout history and around the world.</p>
<p>These ten amendments assure that the rights of citizens in this country are forever protected from any move by any administration to take those rights and give them to the government itself.  As such, the government is forever banned from getting too strong and it relegates the government to a servant role in society which so often is not the case in governmental politics elsewhere in the world.</p>
<p>The ten amendments to the Constitution cover the core rights of Americans including…</p>
<p>1.    Freedom of Religion, free speech, freedom of the press and the fundamental right of assembly without fear of harassment from the government.  Also the right to petition the government to seek relief for grievances caused by the government.<br />
2.    The right to bear arms.<br />
3.    Protection from the forced habitation of troops in civilian homes in a time of conflict.<br />
4.    Protection from unreasonable search and seizure as part of a criminal investigation.<br />
5.    The right to due process when being accused of a crime.<br />
6.    The right to a jury trial, to be allowed to cross examine your accusers and other rights of accused to assure Americans cannot be “railroaded” by the legal system.<br />
7.    The right to civil trail by jury<br />
8.    Protection against cruel and unusual punishment and the right to bail.<br />
9.    Protection of rights not specifically spelled out in these ten amendments<br />
10.    Protection of states rights.</p>
<p>Of these rights, the ones listed in the first amendment are most often quoted and most cherished by Americans.  The original authorship of the Bill of Rights is credited to James Madison.  These basic rules of order for how the government will respect its own citizenry set in place and entitlement of rights by American citizens that has fundamentally shaped this country and how Americans come to expect its government to behave.</p>
<p>It endowed the citizenry of the land with an expectation that the rights of the citizens of the country at a very basic level are more important than the rights of the government and that the government “works for us” which is a phenomenal change to the way societies have been organized throughout history.  As such, The Bill of Rights is one of the many reasons that America can be regarded as the most unique country in the world and the country that many citizens of other nations wish their own counties would emulate.</p>
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