{"id":9721,"date":"2016-09-24T14:38:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T18:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=9721"},"modified":"2016-09-24T14:38:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T18:38:48","slug":"america-is-a-big-fatca-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=9721","title":{"rendered":"America is a Big FATCA Liar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>By Ted Baumann<br \/>\nMarch 4, 2015 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/thesovereigninvestor.com\/asset-protection\/america-big-fatca-liar\/\">thesovereigninvestor.com<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?tag=fatca\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/fatca.jpg\" alt=\"FATCA\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>When I was a kid I once got the better of a bully in a schoolyard scuffle that he had started. With workmen on the school roof cheering me on, I chased the guy halfway across the playground before he turned around and raised his hands in surrender. Needless to say, with the whole class watching, he was terribly embarrassed.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThat weekend the bully showed up at my dock \u2014 we kids all travelled by boat on Maryland\u2019s Eastern Shore \u2014 wanting a rematch. I pointed out to him that there was nobody else to see the outcome. He thought for a moment, then asked me just to tell our friends that he had won. We didn\u2019t actually need to fight again. I agreed. After all, he was a lot bigger than me and I was unlikely to repeat my schoolyard triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Back at school, I reneged on my promise, telling everyone the bully had chickened out. Enraged, he jumped me on the playground and held me down until I admitted that he had \u201cwon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And that, folks, is where I learned the importance of honoring your deals, unsavory as they may be \u2026 double-crossing someone has a way of bouncing back on you.<\/p>\n<p>And I think Uncle Sam is about to learn the same lesson\u2026<br \/>\n<i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/thesovereigninvestor.com\/asset-protection\/america-big-fatca-liar\/\">Full Article : thesovereigninvestor.com<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ted Baumann March 4, 2015 &#8211; thesovereigninvestor.com When I was a kid I once got the better of a bully in a schoolyard scuffle that he had started. With workmen on the school roof cheering me on, I chased the guy halfway across the playground before he turned around and raised his hands in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=9721\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">America is a Big FATCA Liar<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1,5,30,7,142,39],"tags":[1216,144,60,1015,49],"class_list":["post-9721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-general-tt","category-international","category-pnm","category-politics","category-unc","category-usa","tag-fatca","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-keith-rowley","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9722,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721\/revisions\/9722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}