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Name My New Web Site! April 23, 2010

Posted by Jeff Nabers in : Uncategorized , 3comments

I’ve decided I need to organize my information better.

This blog (JeffNabers.com) will return to its roots and focus exclusively on Self-Directed IRA and Solo 401(k) investing. That means no more posts about economics here… I’m going to put those on a new blog:

Help me name my new blog here

Thanks for your help!

2 Reasons Why Inflation Is So Confusing March 19, 2010

Posted by Jeff Nabers in : Uncategorized , 2comments

I just made this quick video to break down 2 key points about inflation…

This video was spawned by a post by Bill Bonner over at Daily Reckoning.

Also, in the video I made a brief mention of the Amazon Kindle. I thought everyone had heard of it by now, but just in the past week, I’ve had two friends in my house pick up my Kindle and say, “What in the world is this?”

I hope the two insights about inflation & deflation are helpful to you.

Have a great weekend  :-)

Top Secret Project (and the shocking truth about Self-Directed IRA and Solo 401k investors) March 6, 2010

Posted by Jeff Nabers in : Uncategorized , 2comments

Ok, here’s the deal…

Highly sophisticated investors are…

…setting up a self-directed IRA or Solo 401k and then getting stuck in the rut of investing the same way most other self-directed IRA and Solo 401k investors are doing it. They are pursuing the same types of deals, making the same kinds of assumptions, and getting the same kinds of results.

And those results aren’t necessarily good. In fact, I am 100% convinced that the majority of self-directed investors are either losing wealth or becoming long-term illiquid (and most likely losing wealth ultimately).

That’s right. It’s the dirty little shameful truth of this niche industry. But self-directed IRA custodians don’t want to let that cat out of the bag or else they would deter the majority of their clients.

Novice investors are…

…not setting (more…)

Will Taxes Increase? January 11, 2010

Posted by Jeff Nabers in : Hyperinflation, Money, Uncategorized , 1 comment so far

taxes

I was just listening to a recording of a conference call this morning where a financial planner began his presentation with this premise:

Taxes will be increasing in the future

I haven’t listened to the rest of it because I had to pause it and write this post. I’m sure when I go back this guy will paint a whole picture based on the assumption of taxes increasing in the future.

Really?

Maximum Taxes

Well, first, let’s admit to ourselves that there is a very real, hard maximum taxation point. That’s 100%. A taxpayer cannot pay more in taxes than he has. Beyond that is impossible.

Second, let’s admit that there is effectively a maximum taxation point that is well below 100% of what a taxpayer has. Taxes going beyond this point is improbable. Let me explain…

Whether you may realize this or not, you probably pay 60%, 70% or more of every dollar that has ever been “yours” in taxes. Income taxes, property taxes, sin taxes (on booze), gas taxes, sales taxes, excise taxes, franchise taxes, death taxes, etc. Some of these taxes show up on paper that you can see, and some of these taxes are never declared to you at the point at which you pay them.

Where the Line is Drawn

So with the majority of the money that was ever yours already going to these direct taxes, how much more taxation can you take? Imagine a scenario where we go from systematically losing 70% of our money to losing 90% of our money.

Do you think hundreds of thousands (more…)