Game Plan

by Kevin D. Freeman

  57.Jeff Stouffer, “Timber Investing for the Average Investor,” The Motley Fool, April 24, 2013, http://beta.fool.com/jlstouffer/2013/04/24/timber-investing-now-a-program-for-the-average-i-3/31719/.

  58.Investment U Research Team, “Investing in Timber,” Investment U, accessed September 2013, http://www.investmentu.com/research/timber-investing.html.

  59.Investopedia, s.v. “Master Limited Partnership,” accessed September 2013, http://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/mlp.asp.

  60.Ethan Sacks, “Spider-Man Comic, Amazing Fantasy #15, Sells for Record $1.1 million,” New York Daily News, March 9, 2011, http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/spider-man-comic-amazing-fantasy-15-sells-record-1-1-million-article-1.112875.

  61.“Princess, Ty Beanie Baby Bear,” TV Collector, updated November 4, 2013, http://www.tycollector.com/the-scoop/princess-bear.htm.

  62.Charles Passy, “So You Think You Want to Invest in . . .” Wall Street Journal, October 29, 2012, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443684104578064800307480808.html.

  63.Teresa Levonian Cole, “Returns on Property v. High-End Collectables,” House and Home, Financial Times, February 22, 2013, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/7883dbf4-76c9-11e2-8569-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2dOgLW8mg.

  64.Rob Griffith, “Collectibles: A Way to Invest and Have Fun at the Same Time,” Independent, May 1, 2010, http://www.independent.co.uk/money/spend-save/collectibles-a-way-to-invest-and-have-fun-at-the-same-time-1959574.html.

  65.“Avoiding ‘Prohibited Transactions’ in Your IRA,” Investopedia, September 18, 2010, http://www.investopedia.com/articles/retirement/03/073003.asp.

  66.Sara Callan, “New U.K. Law Allows Collectibles in Retirement Portfolios” (Wall Street Journal), Sun Sentinel, November 27, 2005, http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2005-11-27/business/0511250489_1_mutual-funds-bordeaux-and-burgundy-wine.

  CHAPTER ELEVEN

  1.David Chilton, The Wealthy Barber: Everyone’s Commonsense Guide to Becoming Financially Independent, 3rd ed. (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1997).

  2.Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig, and Warren E. Buffett, The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing; A Book of Practical Counsel (New York: Collins Business, 2006).

  3.William Proctor, The Templeton Touch (West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press, 2012).

  4.Charles D. Ellis, Investment Policy: How to Win the Loser’s Game (Burr Ridge, IL: Irwin Professional Publishing, 1992).

  5.Manisha Thakor and Sharon Kedar, On My Own Two Feet: A Modern Girl’s Guide to Personal Finance (Avon, MA: Adams Business, 2007).

  6.Norman Berryessa, Global Investing: The Templeton Way (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988).

  7.Erik Davidson, Investing in Separate Accounts (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002).

  8.“Robert Duggan,” Forbes, Forbes.com, accessed September 2013, http://www.forbes.com/profile/robert-duggan-1/.

  9.Davidson, Investing in Separate Accounts.

  10.Ellis, Investment Policy.

  11.Ibid.

  12.Wikipedia, s.v. “1937,” accessed September 2013.

  13.“Group of 7, Meet the Group of 33,” New York Times, December 26, 1987, http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/26/opinion/group-of-7-meet-the-group-of-33.html.

  14.“Templeton Maxims: 10 Principles for Investment Success,” Franklin Templeton Investments, http://www.dryassociates.com/images/maxims.pdf.

  15.Mark J. Perry, “The U.S. Economy Is Bad, but the 1980s Were Worse,” Encyclopedia Britannica Blog, January 21, 2009, http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2009/01/the-economy-is-bad-but-the-80s-were-worse/.

  16.James Joyner, “History of American Income Tax Rates,” Outside the Beltway, http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/history-of-american-income-tax-rates/.

  17.Daisy Luther, “Power Outage Picnic,” The Organic Pepper, http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/power-outage-picnic-02062013.

  18.Luther, “Getting Started: Prepping for a Two-Week Power Outage,” LewRockwell.com, July 2, 2013, http://archive.lewrockwell.com/luther/luther40.1.html.

  19.NSIC Institute, Oklahoma Wesleyan Institute, http://nsic.org.

  CHAPTER TWELVE

  1.Bob Veres, “The Price Clients Pay for Worst-Case Forecasts,” Advisor Perspectives, August 27, 2013, http://advisorperspectives.com/newsletters13/pdfs/The_Price_Clients_Pay_for_Worst-Case_Forecasts.pdf.

  2.Juan Zarate, Treasury’s War; The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare (New York: PublicAffairs, 2013).

  3.Kate Brannen, “Mike Mullen Focuses on Debt as Security Threat,” Politico, December 6, 2012, http://www.politico.com/story/2012/12/mike-mullen-focuses-on-debt-as-security-threat-84648.html.

  4.Zarate, Treasury’s War.

  5.Annalyn Censky, “What Is Naked Short Selling?,” CNN Money, CNN.com, May 19, 2010, http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/19/news/economy/naked_short_selling_wtf/.

  6.“Germany’s Naked Short-Selling Ban: What the Analysts Say; Germany’s Surprise Clamp-down on the ‘Naked Short-Selling’ of Bank Shares, Government Bonds and Credit Default Swaps Has Alarmed City Analysts, Who Believe It Could Make Europe’s Financial Crisis Even Worse,” Guardian, May 19, 2010, http://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/may/19/germany-naked-short-selling-ban-analysts.

  7.Matthew Dalton, “Euro Strengthens as Fears Fade,” Wall Street Journal, January 11, 2013, http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324442304578235843274207164.

  8.Jim Brunsden, “EU Gets Deal on Naked Sovereign CDS Curbs, Short-Selling Rules,” Bloomberg News, October 18, 2011, http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-18/eu-gets-deal-on-naked-sovereign-cds-curbs-short-selling-rules.html.

  9.John Chapman, “CDS: Modern Day Weapons of Mass Destruction,” Financial Times, September 11, 2011, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/1c81fdf8-d4b9-11e0-a7ac-00144feab49a.html#axzz2kImq3w9e.

  10.Adam Taggart, “Rep. Ken Ivory and Dan Griffiths: Creating a Financial Emergency Plan for States: Utah Is Pioneering a Bold New Model,” Peak Prosperity, May 19, 2013, http://www.peakprosperity.com/featuredvoices/81915/rep-ken-ivory-dan-griffiths-creating-financial-emergency-plan-states.

  11.Dan Griffiths, “Financial Ready Utah: Peace in Preparedness,” State Budget Solutions, May 6, 2013, http://www.statebudgetsolutions.org/blog/detail/financial-ready-utah-peace-in-preparedness.

  12.“Rep. Matt Krause Files Bill to Create Fiscal Risk Management Commission,” press release, Texas House of Representatives, February 27, 2013, http://www.house.state.tx.us/news/press-releases/?id=4344&session=83&district=93&bill_code=2465.

  13.Emily Ramshaw and Aman Batheja, “Tarrant Lawmaker Seeks to Create Texas Bullion Depository,” Texas Tribune, March 22, 2013, http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/03/21/4721036/tarrant-lawmaker-seeks-to-create.html.

  14.Michelle Smith, “James Richards: Texas Law Would Protect Its Gold from Government Seizure,” Moneynews.com, March 25, 2013, http://www.moneynews.com/Markets/gold-Rickards-Texas-depository/2013/03/25/id/496123.

  15.U.S. Cyber Command, U.S. Strategic Command, http://www.stratcom.mil/factsheets/Cyber_Command/.

  16.René Obermann, “Uniting for Cyberdefense,” New York Times, February 19, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/opinion/global/uniting-for-cyberdefense.html?_r=0.

  17.Scott Borg and Elad Yoran, “A New Approach to Cyber Defense,” FoxBusiness.com, April 3, 2013, http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2013/04/03/new-approach-to-cyber-defense/.

  18.Richard A. Fleetwood, “U.S. Civil Defense History,” Survival Ring, May 2009, http://www.survivalring.org/community/library/civil-defense-history/#ixzz2kOiK0M44.

  19.American Blackout, National Geographic Channel, November 13, 2013, http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/american-blackout/.

  20.“Maine Setting Standard for EMP Defense; Legislature Working to Protect against Event That Could Change Civilization,” WND, February 24, 2013, http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/maine-setting-standard-for-emp-defense/.

  21.“Franks Launches Caucus to Address EMP Threat, Introduces ‘SHIELD Act,’” press release, U.S. Congressman Trent
Franks, February 16, 2011, http://franks.house.gov/press-release/franks-launches-caucus-address-emp-threat-introduces-shield-act.

  22.“Space Weather: The Impact on Earth and Its Implications for Business,” Lloyd’s of London, 2013, http://www.lloyds.com/~/media/Lloyds/Reports/360/360%20Space%20Weather/7311_Lloyds_360_Space%20Weather_03.pdf.

  23.Frank Gaffney Jr., “Doing Something about Space Weather,” Center for Security Policy, June 17, 2013, http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2013/06/17/doing-something-about-space-weather/.

  24.“Credit and Liquidity Programs and the Balance Sheet,” Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, September 20, 2013, http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttrends.htm.

  25.David Callahan, “The Most Bogus Employment Number: Discouraged Workers,” Demos, September 6, 2013, http://www.demos.org/blog/9/6/13/most-bogus-unemployment-number-discouraged-workers.

  26.Richard Rubin, “Offshore Cash Hoard Expands by $183 Billion at Companies,” Bloomberg.com, March 8, 2013, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-08/offshore-cash-hoard-expands-by-183-billion-at-companies.html.

  27.Daniel J. Mitchell, “More Compelling Evidence That America’s Corporate Tax System Is Pointlessly Destructive,” Cato at Liberty, Cato Institute, August 14, 2013, http://www.cato.org/blog/more-compelling-evidence-americas-corporate-tax-system-pointlessly-destructive.

  28.Mitchell, “America’s Corporate Tax System Ranks a Miserable 94 out of 100 Nations in ‘Tax Attractiveness,’” International Liberty blog, July 11, 2013, http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/americas-corporate-tax-system-ranks-a-miserable-94-out-of-100-nations-in-tax-attractiveness/.

  29.“U.S. Acquirers Cut Taxes by Relocating to Europe after Mergers,” CNBC.com, August 13, 2013, http://www.cnbc.com/id/100957874.

  30.Jeff Sommer, “How to Unlock That Stashed Foreign Cash,” New York Times, March 23, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/your-money/how-companies-could-unlock-stashed-foreign-earnings.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.

  31.Julie Bort, “Cisco’s John Chambers Repeats Threat to Ship Jobs Overseas If Tax Laws Don’t Change,” Business Insider, May 16, 2013, http://www.businessinsider.com/ciscos-john-chambers-threatens-to-ship-jobs-overseas-2013-5#ixzz2eQ57Q8aB.

  32.James Pethokoukis, “CBO: Obama Stimulus May Have Cost as Much as $4.1 Million a Job,” AEI-Ideas (blog), May 30, 2012, http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/05/cbo-obama-stimulus-may-have-cost-as-much-as-4-1-million-a-job/.

  33.Ashe Schow, “President Obama’s Taxpayer-Backed Green Energy Failures,” Foundry, Heritage Foundation, October 18, 2012, http://blog.heritage.org/2012/10/18/president-obamas-taxpayer-backed-green-energy-failures/.

  34.Marc A. Thiessen, “Forget Bain—Obama’s Public-Equity Record Is the Real Scandal,” Washington Post, May 24, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/forget-bain-obamas-public-equity-record-is-the-real-scandal/2012/05/24/gJQAXnXCnU_story.html.

  35.Darius Dixon, “DOE IG: 100+ Stimulus-Related Criminal Probes,” Politico, November 2, 2011, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/111l/67444.html.

  36.Greg Pollowitz, “Why the Government Should Not Play Venture Capitalist,” National Review Online, September 1, 2011, http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/276069/why-government-should-not-play-venture-capitalist-greg-pollowitz.

  37.R. Maxwell, “Apple Seeks to Build a Solar Farm to Power Data Center in Reno, Nevada,” Phone Arena, July 2, 2013, http://www.phonearena.com/news/Apple-seeks-to-build-a-solar-farm-to-power-data-center-in-Reno-Nevada_id44805.

  38.Mark Garrison, “How Much Would Apple’s Overseas Cash Help the U.S. Economy?,” Marketplace, May 21, 2013, http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/how-much-would-apples-overseas-cash-help-us-economy.

  39.Damien Carrington, “Germany’s Renewable Energy Revolution Leaves UK in the Shade,” Guardian, May 30, 2012, http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/may/30/germany-renewable-energy-revolution.

  40.“Oil Economics,” Fuel Freedom, 2013, http://www.fuelfreedom.org/the-real-foreign-oil-problem/oil-economics/.

  41.Patti Domm, “U.S. Is on Fast-Track to Energy Independence: Study,” CNBC.com, February 11, 2013, http://www.cnbc.com/id/100450133.

  42.Morgan Korn, “U.S. to Pass Saudi Arabia in Energy Production, IEA Says: Huge Foreign Policy, Economic Implications,” Yahoo! Finance, November 12, 2012, http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/u-pass-saudi-arabia-energy-production-iea-says-170907660.html.

  43.Michael Bastasch, “White House Praises Oil Drilling While Blocking It on Federal Land,” Daily Caller, September 3, 2013, http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/03/white-house-praises-oil-drilling-while-blocking-it-on-federal-land/#ixzz2eQQhqtgd.

  44.Ibid.

  45.Stacy Curtin, “The Fracking Revolution: More Jobs and Cheaper Energy Are Worth the ‘Manageable’ Risks, Yergin Says,” Yahoo! Finance, February 3, 2012, http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/fracking-revolution-more-jobs-cheaper-energy-worth-manage-able-171414515.html.

  46.Ibid.

  47.“Obama Administration Imposes Five-Year Drilling Ban on Majority of Offshore Areas,” Committee on Natural Resources, November 8, 2011, http://naturalresources.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2679.

  48.Kevin D. Freeman, “Why Our Shale Boom Is So Important to Us and Such a Threat to Russia and OPEC,” GlobalEconomicWarfare.com, August 9, 2013, http://globaleconomicwarfare.com/2013/08/why-our-shale-boom-is-so-important-to-us-and-such-a-threat-to-russia-and-opec/.

  49.Freeman, “Fracking and Hacking; Why Energy Is the New Front in Economic Warfare,” GlobalEconomicWarfare.com, October 7, 2012, http://globaleconomicwarfare.com/2012/10/fracking-and-hacking-why-energy-is-the-new-front-in-economic-warfare/.

  50.Summer Said and Benoit Faucon, “Shale Threatens Saudi Economy, Warns Prince Alwaleed,” Wall Street Journal, July 29, 2013, http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323854904578635500251760848; and Timur Moon, “Oil Price Slips as Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Warns of West’s Fracking Boom,” International Business Times, July 29, 2013, http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/495259/20130729/prince-alwaleed-talal-oil-price-shale-gas.htm.

  51.Freeman, “Can Environmental Rules Be Secret Weapons?,” GlobalEconomicWarfare.com, August 16, 2012, http://globaleconomicwarfare.com/2012/08/can-environmental-rules-be-secret-weapons/.

  52.Robert Toews, “Former CIA Head Ties Oil, Terror,” Stanford Daily, February 25, 2010, http://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/02/25/former-cia-head-ties-oil-terror/.

  53.Dana Hull, “How ‘Teslanaires’ Made Fortunes on Tesla Motors Stock,” San Jose Mercury News, August 21, 2013, http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_23912622/how-teslanaires-made-fortunes-tesla-motors-stock.

  54.Ashlee Vance, “Revealed: Elon Musk Explains the Hyperloop, the Solar-Powered High-Speed Future of Inter-City Transportation,” Businessweek.com, August 12, 2013, http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-08-12/revealed-elon-musk-explains-the-hyperloop.

  55.Mary Ann Milbourn, “Boone Pickens Invests in O.C. Natural Gas Fueling Firm,” Orange County Register, August 21, 2013, http://www.ocregister.com/articles/energy-333968-pickens-company.html.

  56.“Overregulation: The Problem We Can’t Outproduce,” The Optimistic Conservative Blog, August 13, 2012, http://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/overregulation-the-problem-we-cant-outproduce-with-some-words-from-reagan/.

  57.“Skyrocketing Number of Regulations Burden Economy,” Smarter Government Washington, August 21, 2013, http://smartergovernmentwa.org/skyrocketing-number-of-regulations-burden-economy/.

  58.Patrick McClaughlin, “The Economics of Regulation Part 1: A New Study Shows That Regulatory Accumulation Hurts the Economy,” Mercatus Center at George Mason University, July 16, 2013, http://neighborhoodeffects.mercatus.org/2013/07/16/the-economics-of-regulation-part-1-a-new-study-shows-that-regulatory-accumulation-hurts-the-economy/; and Ronald Bailey, “Federal Regulations Have Made You 75 Percent Poorer,” Reason.com, July 21, 2103, http://reason.com/archives/2013/06/21/federal-regulations-hav
e-made-you-75-per.

  59.Bailey, “Federal Regulations Have Made You 75 Percent Poorer.”

  60.Ibid.

  61.Alyene Senger, “Obamacare Hassle: A 127-Million-Hour Paperwork Burden,” Foundry, Heritage Foundation, February 7, 2013, http://blog.heritage.org/2013/02/07/obamacare-a-127-million-hour-burden/.

  62.James L. Gattuso, “Reforming Regulation: Some Sensible Steps,” Heritage Foundation, July 25, 2012, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/07/how-to-reduce-red-tape-and-reform-government-regulation.

  63.William McBride, “What Is the Evidence on Taxes and Growth?,” Tax Foundation, December 18, 2012, http://taxfoundation.org/article/what-evidence-taxes-and-growth.

  64.“Simplify Tax Code With Blank Slate: Our View,” USA Today, July 22, 2013, http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/07/22/simplify-tax-code-blank-slate-editorials-debates/2576665/.

  65.“How FairTax Works,” FairTax.org. 2013, http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer.

  66.Nathan Lewis, “Flat Tax vs. Fair Tax vs. Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan,” Forbes, Forbes.com, October 13, 2011, http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanlewis/2011/10/13/flat-tax-vs-fair-tax-vs-herman-cains-9-9-9-plan/.

  67.Al Cardenas and John McLaughlin, “Do We Need More Immigrants?,” Human Events, August 5, 2013, http://www.humanevents.com/2013/08/05/1078-words/.

  68.Nathan Cotto, “Gov. Richard Lamm on the Immigration Plan to Destroy America,” Washington Times, September 2, 2012, http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neigh-borhood/conscience-realist/2012/sep/2/richard-lamm-plan-destroy-america/.

  69.“Does Illegal Immigration Pose a Terrorist Threat to the United States?,” ProCon.org, 2013, http://immigration.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=000786.

  70.Mark Landsbaum, “Al-Qaeda’s Illegal Immigration Threat,” FrontPage Magazine, March 3, 2005, http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=9387.

  71.Igor Volsky, “Congressman Says Bombings Reveal Danger of Immigration Bill: ‘Radical Islamists . . . Are Trained to Act Hispanic,’” ThinkProgress, April 17, 2013, http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/04/17/1879411/congressman-says-bombings-reveal-danger-of-immigration-bill-radical-islamistsare-trained-to-act-hispanic/.