Ron Holland has written three books, two on the Washington threat to the private retirement system, plus over 100 reports and articles and he speaks and serves as a moderator at conferences on a wide variety of financial, political and freedom-related topics. He is a strong proponent of defending American liberties at home and the importance for global investment diversification outside the dollar and U.S. financial markets. Ron Holland works in Zurich and is a co-editor of the Swiss Mountain Vision Newsletter.
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Mar 23rd, 2010 |
By Ron Holland |
Category: Featured, Personal Investing
“There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation.”
— President James Madison
As the United States travels down the long road from the first limited government republic model of our Patriot ...
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Tags: healthcare, nationalization, retirement
Posted in Featured, Personal Investing |
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Mar 4th, 2010 |
By Ron Holland |
Category: Featured, Personal Investing
“In plain English, the idea is for the government to take your retirement savings in return for a promise to pay you some monthly benefit in your retirement years.” ~ Newt Gingrich and Peter Ferrara, “Class Warfare’s Next Target: 401(k) Savings.”
Gingrich and Ferrara are correct in their recent editorial ...
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Tags: 401(k), confiscation, IRA, IRS, nationalization, ron paul
Posted in Featured, Personal Investing |
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Feb 25th, 2010 |
By Ron Holland |
Category: Featured, International, Politics
The European Union and the United States should consider the successful freedom model of Swiss confederation government rather than the failed top down examples of other nations and empires. Few would question that Switzerland is the most secure, stable, and freedom-oriented nation in the world but it is time to ...
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Tags: currency competition, Swiss model of government, Switzerland, tax competition
Posted in Featured, International, Politics |
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Feb 12th, 2010 |
By Ron Holland |
Category: Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics
Frédéric Bastiat must have been looking toward the future of the United States today when he said, “When plunder has become a way of life for a group of people living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it, and ...
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Tags: nullification, secession, the Union, washington dc
Posted in Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics |
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Feb 11th, 2010 |
By Ron Holland |
Category: Featured, Personal Investing
I begin with a quote from a politician who believed in an all-powerful central government and in using that power to achieve his vision for a nation. “He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.” ~ Otto von Bismarck, a statesman who created the modern Germany and ...
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Tags: confiscation, Guaranteed Retirement Annuity, retirement trap
Posted in Featured, Personal Investing |
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Jan 21st, 2010 |
By Ron Holland |
Category: Featured, Personal Investing
As the United States moves into a new decade of military overreach abroad and national bankruptcy at home, Washington is in a desperate search for more revenue and a solution to the future financing of the trillions in national debt obligations currently held by foreign central banks and investors. Economists, ...
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Tags: government deficit, Obama, pension, retirement
Posted in Featured, Personal Investing |
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