How To Get Started
"To succeed is to anticipate the future with a strategy." -- Armand Hammer
You might think it strange to begin this section with a quote from a well known leftist businessman who, it has been revealed during recent years following his death, was a lifelong Soviet agent against the west, however I think this is appropriate. Undoubtedly, Armand Hammer was an enemy of freedom, liberty and all of the capitalist and moral traditions many of us in the United States and Europe hold dear. Yet he survived in business and espionage with these suspicions until the end of his disgusting life. There is no question, given his activities, that in order to stay ahead of the authorities he planned for his future and the many variables which could have landed him in prison or the death penalty with a constantly updated strategy and plan of action to counter the many threats against him.
As high net worth investors today in the early years of the 21st Century, we too must plan for the unknown and likely future assaults on our wealth and freedoms. Just as Armand Hammer lived and worked inside an alien quasi-capitalist United States, productive, freedom-loving people also live in an environment of envy, government controls and restrictions. We must watch our every word, business situation and entrepreneurial actions in the context of the multiple regulatory agency rules, potential litigants, and snooping bureaucrats all out to curtail our personal, economic and financial freedoms at the same time as they attempt to take our wealth.
How do we get started in protecting our assets, preserving our wealth and returning liberty, free-markets and limited constitutional government to the United States and other nations?
"Never keep all your wealth in the country where you live. Keep part of your assets hidden. Only then will you know that you own something somewhere that the government isn’t going to get its hands on." -- Harry Browne
6 – Determine What Freedom and Liberty Oriented Institutes & Foundations Deserve Your Tax Deductible Contributions. Remember all asset protection and financial strategies are only a delaying action at best unless we can educate the citizenry about the benefits of limited government, capitalism and the sanctity of private property. Check out our links and recommendations to the many 501 ©3 organizations worthy of your contributions. Make sure you contact and contribute to organizations that share your views and vision of the future. Click here for my suggested 501(c)3 educational foundations and institutes.
7 - My Preferred Pro-Liberty Foundations and Institutes
Conservative
Young America's Foundation
The Heritage FoundationLibertarian
Future of Freedom Foundation
LewRockwell.com
Anti-War.com
Free-Market
Ludwig von Mises Institute
Foundation for Economic Education
Cato InstituteOther
8 – Help Others Learn Lean How To Defend Their Wealth and Help Restore Liberty – Please send information on the book to your freedom oriented friends and associates as well as the URL to our online version. You can send our Book Description & Promotion out to your friends by e-mail by simply clicking the following link: Check Out the New Book: Protecting Our Legacy
Delay Can Be Fatal
"For all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been!”
-- John Greenleaf WhittierProcrastination is a basic trait and attitude of all human beings. Some of us are more inclined to put things off until the last possible moment than others. As for me, I am totally eaten up with this trait hence the reason I’m working still working on this book manuscript only two weeks before it must be completed.
There are many aspects of life and financial affairs, which can indeed be postponed, and on occasion by putting stuff off we don’t find enjoyable or necessary, sometimes we never have to deal with the activity at all. I find this is the case all the time with my wife, as if I don’t pick up my clothes or straighten out my office, eventually out of necessity for her, she will deal with those things which I neither notice nor concern me in the slightest.
This kind of delay does not work regarding any aspect of wealth or asset protection. Almost none of the many threats to your wealth or liberty for that matter can be solved or protected after the fact. For example, after a lawsuit is filed, there is little you can legally do to protect your assets due to the rules of fraudulent conveyance. There is no way to protect your assets after an investment market collapse and in fact most quick-fix solutions this late in the game often make the situation even worse. The same with protecting or defending your wealth from the government actions or closed markets if terrorists attack the American financial infrastructure and markets. If there is no liquidity with closed markets and frozen bank accounts, there will simply be no way out for investors caught in a closure of the American investment markets for the duration. Finally, you also can’t defend against the consequences of an improper or bad offshore account structure, once the structure is deemed inappropriate or illegal. You must fix these kind of accidents waiting to happen before it is too late.
The time to take action to protect your assets from lawsuit, seizure, closed markets or improper offshore accounts is today before you are left without options and the freedom to take action. Delay can be fatal is certainly 100% applicable to asset protection planning.
If you are a reader who waits and does nothing, don’t waste the time and cost of a phone call to me, when an unwarranted lawsuit hits, a divorce takes place, the markets are closed due to a financial crisis or terrorist WMD attack. For then it will indeed be too late for you, for your wealth and for you to exercise your former personal, political or financial freedoms. So, in summary, take some action today, not tomorrow, next week, or next month to protect your wealth as there are many groups and individuals out there who can only exist and survive by stealing your wealth. If you are a high net worth investor or have substantial savings and investments, then consider yourself and your wealth a target of opportunity. Don’t wait until you are caught in the crosshairs of a wealth attack but defend yourself now while you still have the opportunity for when they pull the trigger, and you hear the rifle shot, it is already too late!
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