Newt Utopia

Dominica is a beautiful island nation between Guadeloupe and Martinique with about 65,000 residents. Its major attraction is also its major obstacle to development. That is the rugged terrain of the island. It has surface volcanic activity evident at Boiling

Risk, Reward, Stasis and Losers; Corporate Responsibility; and the US Securities Industry.

Legal Infrastructure and its impact upon an economy; Offshore Banks having staff problems; and Chinese Bonds.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the bond market and you knew all the rules and regulations and the history behind defaulted sovereign debt, up comes something to show you were wrong. A client brought in for me a number of Chinese bonds that were issued in 20 pound denominations in 1913. The bonds have writing in the front that these can be paid in pounds, marks, rubles or francs. The bonds are written in English, German, French, Russian on, on their face, is written "The Chinese Government 5% Reorganization Gold Loan of 1913". Approximately 25 million pounds (Sterling) were issued.

I have worked with more gamers and more fellows who want to be gamers than I can remember. They are all certain they have all of the answers on how it can be done "legally" vis à vis offshore structures

The IRS hunts for lost taxes.

In 2001, Robert Hoyt was a 21-year-old mechanical engineer with a bachelors degree in metallurgy from an Ivy League school. Robert had always dreamed of working on aircraft, specifically aircraft with military applications. He had applied to Boeing and was immediately accepted. He was promoted over the next 18 months from increasingly more important projects. However, the latest promotion required him to apply for a security clearance. For the purpose of this story, the level of the clearance is unimportant, what is important was the US Government subsequently denied the clearance and then asked why he had failed to disclose his prior employment and a nine-year-old felony conviction for multiple counts of money laundering.

Donald Alan Mueller was a salesman by heart and by vocation. He operated, for many years, as a real-estate business in Ohio.  He worked with customers and had good days and bad days. But even on his good days he could be described, at best, as "difficult".  Sometime in the 1990s Mueller became involved with a group of strict constitutionalists similar to groups that went on to media fame and fortune such as the 'Freemen of Montana'. Specifically, Mueller was a member of the Americans for a Constitutional Republic, an organization that doesn't recognize the authority of the police, state or courts.

The Cayman Islands; and Alfred Zent.

Niue (Last rock from the Sun); Nauru; Marshall Islands; Solomon Islands; Cook Islands; Vanuatu; Shift In Fortunes; FATF/OECD - How they are Viewed; and The Future.

Bahamian financial woes The economy stinks and it's getting worse. The once thriving downtown area along Bay Street has empty buildings and those with merchandise have 50% off sales and "going out of business" sales. The huge gap left by

Globalization, Universal Jurisdiction and the Importance of Being Earnestly Different(Three shingles and a point) Globalization (first shingle) is the network of interdependence, at global distances, of nations and states. It is not a new concept. The first attempt at globalization

A new LLC in Dominica The financial denizens of Dominica have proposed a new LLC act that certainly looks like it will attract some attention. If what this author sees in the preliminary information is true it will compete effectively

I have been going to Cayman since the early 1980s and I have never seen so much change occur in a small place in such a short time. I still remember the raid on the Bank of Credit & Commerce International when, in the wee hours of the morning, I got to watch the first part of the raid from the parking lot of Burger King across the way from their building, which began with an Armored Personnel Carrier full of soldiers arriving at BCCI's offices. The suits came the next morning.

 Investment Opportunities in Cuba; and Crossing the Fatfoecd Swamp (a poorly disguised parable).

Internet Gaming.

Historical bonds have been used in numerous international frauds over the years and have cost suckers many hundreds of millions of dollars. So how do these old worthless bundles of pretty paper get used as "authentic" documents to part the

China I have business associates who travel regularly to China. I also work with Chinese businessmen who conduct a lot of business in the US. From both perspectives, the recent air crash incident involving the United States was most cumbersome,

A fascinating study, titled "Investment in High Yield Programs and Childhood Fables", has just been released. Underwritten by Prime Bank and written by psychologist Les Moody and international banker Nikolei Putin, it demonstrates a strong correlation between a tot's reliance upon fables for life guidance and his or her likelihood to invest in high yield programs upon reaching adulthood.

New areas for offshore centers to attract foreign capital.

Who are Elmyr de Hory, Henricuvan Meegeren, Alleco Docina, Eric Hebbron, Vrain Lucas and Kwon Choong-shik?

Dominica, Costa Rica, St. Kitts, Isla Margarita, Belize, and Fulfillment Issues.

Make it a two way street please ... MLATs, Treaties, Memorandums of Understanding, Conventions Against Illicit Traffic, EU Council Directives, Basle Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision... One way streets the lot of them, nothing more than wide boulevards leading

Warnings about Investment Banking Systems, of St. Vincent & the Grenadines, and Caledonian Development Corporation, of the British Virgin Islands, and a look at conman Alfred Zent and his use of corundum.

Liechtenstein benefits for short timers Police in the capital of Vaduz recently reported a prisoner housing problem as a result of several recent arrests made during a money laundering investigation. In police headquarters there are 16 cells that can only