This is an interesting article from our friends at The Dollar Vigilante. FATCA is presenting a growing problem for not only U.S. Citizens but also those persons spending time in the U.S.   A must read for this week. http://dollarvigilante.com/blog/2014/8/21/snowbirds-flying-into-fatca-trap.html

Pierre Lassonde is one of the ‘superstars’ of the resource sector. He co-founded Franco-Nevada, the largest royalty and streaming company in the mining sector.

Florian Siegfried, head of precious metals and mining investments with Switzerland-based AgaNola Ltd., knows where the music is playing in the mining M&A space. In this interview with The Gold Report …

Björn Paffrath, Switzerland-based fund adviser and newsletter writer, is so convinced that we’ve seen the bottom in the mining sector that he’s launching a new gold and silver fund in Europe.

As much as we’d all like significantly higher silver and gold prices, Chris Thompson of Raymond James doesn’t expect them.

A court ruling involving Microsoft’s offshore data storage offers an instructive lesson on the long reach of the US government — and what you can do to mitigate this political risk.

Investors are all too familiar with the KABOOM in precious metals prices in the fall of 2011 and the echo that’s still reverberating. Three years later Jeb Handwerger, founder of GoldStockTrades.com, believes it could be the broad market’s turn — and soon.

Forbes Editor-in-Chief and longtime friend Steve Forbes leads off this week’s Outside the Box with a sweeping historical summary — and damning indictment — of the “cheap money” policies of the US executive branch and Federal Reserve.

“If I scare you this morning, and as a result you take action, then I will have accomplished my goal.” That’s what I told the audience at the Sprott Natural Resource Symposium in Vancouver two weeks ago.