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  3. For the upcoming Solari report, “Your Taxes in 2013”, I would like to ask this question please.
    It seems there’s a window of opportunity right now, before 2013 closes, where the lifetime gift tax exclusion is quite high at $5M and also real estates values are extremely low. Should a portfolio with strong real estate holdings use this window to gift property now rather than wait until the window closes, understanding that this gift must be irrevocable. I believe this question ultimately lies in whether the differential between today’s exclusion of $5M and tomorrow’s exlusion, let’s assume that to be $1M, is subject to clawback. I’m reading differing opinions on this making it difficult to decide whether to pull the trigger or not.

    Thank you.

  4. Hey, Megan. Welcome! Delighted to have you join us and post your insights!. I am leaving Palo Alto for Tennessee tomorrow am. Back in April. Hope to see you in the Spring!

    Catherine

  5. I just became a subscriber a few days ago and this is really exciting. I have forwarded the information from Lynette Louise about autism to a friend who has an autistic child…I have been starting to read the back issues of the solari report, including the one about Dr. Tiller from Stanford, a scientist who investigates the spiritual. This is fascinating. I just read Catherine’s March 2012 solari report where she alone talked…this piece is great. Thanks, CAF! IIn this ‘solo report’ I particular enjoyed the insight that I have sometimes had, but haven’t really been able to articulate it. Sometimes following the right path is a fairly lonely path. I’m alone in realizing that I need to do the right thing, not be coerced, just because it is the right thing to do. “The reward will be in heaven” is sort of how it gets described, but you know, I think being true to oneself and being able to sleep at night is pretty powerful too. I’ll write more. Am a bit shy about posting on blogs like this… but I did want to send greetings and thank you for Catherine. I so enjoyed meeting Catherine here in Northern Calif….

  6. http://revoltingdevelopments.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/film-director-john-carpenter-markets-see-real-glasses-says-80s-they-live-movie-was-fact/

    FILM DIRECTOR JOHN CARPENTER MARKETS “SEE THEM” GLASSES: SAYS ‘THEY LIVE’ MOVIE WAS FACT

    Posted on May 27, 2011 by Palantine News Network

    A company owned by acclaimed Halloween filmmaker John Carpenter has been quietly manufacturing millions of “John Carpenter’s SEE THEM GLASSES,” which the director says he will begin shipping to retail chain stores early next month.

    Below: John Carpenter, the director of the films Halloween, The Thing and Escape From New York, visited the Revolting Developments’ offices on Monday to discuss his new consumer product.

    Carpenter declined to name the stores that will be offering his merchandise but
    claims that the glasses, as seen in his 1988 film, THEY LIVE, “will allow all the regular people to see thousands of ‘anti-capitalist space ghouls’ who have disguised themselves as the new financial and political elite, and are wrecking this country.”

    The movie, THEY LIVE, Carpenter says,”told the absolute truth, but was mistaken by audiences for a work of fiction. Since then I’ve come to realize that every regular person needs to see that these thieving ghouls exist for themselves. So next month, go to stores in your area and ask for, “John Carpenter’s SEE THEM GLASSES.”

  7. Here’s one for “Ask Catherine” or she could reply online.

    I see that you are consistently recommending documentaries as a way of spinning up on a subject. I find the documentary format to be extremely unsatisfactory. It is a reasonably accessible way of finding out what a particular viewpoint is claiming, but it is of little or no use to me regarding whether those claims are supported by the complete set of evidence. This is because:
    (a) There is never any actual empirical data. Graphs are typically flashed so quickly you can’t even read the axises or the units.
    (b) They typically depend largely on “authorities” giving their opinions in short sound bites with out the evidence that supports their opinions even being enumerated and without any reasonable evidence that the speaker is an actual authority to be listened to.
    (c) The viewpoint is always completely one side, but Solomon noted: “The first to present his case seems right, till another comes forward and questions him.” Prov 18:17.
    (d) They don’t have footnotes that allow you to dig in a determine whether the evidence really exists and states what is claimed in context.
    (e) Music is used to set the emotional tone and clouds the rational evaluation of what is being presented.
    (f) The speed at which information is provided is slow at best with time wasted on the slow panning of the camera across still photos.

    Do you share any sympathy with my viewpoint and if so:
    (1) in what ways do you find documentaries valuable and
    (2) what do you depend upon to quickly sort the wheat from the chaff when examining extraordinary claims.

    Regards,

    Douglas M Dillon, 240-383-6846, http://www.worldofwallstreet.us

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