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American Copper Corporation is
a copper exploration company listed on the TSX-V:AJ. Backed by an
accomplished and experienced management team, American Copper looks
to capitalize on a rich and powerful copper market and maximize
shareholder value through promising and successful exploration.
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Steve Crowley's American Scene is one of the most successful,
national, financial talk-radio programs in America. It was
launched from the Disney/MGM Radio Studios at Walt Disney World in
June 1990 and attracts a larger and larger radio audience each month
coast to coast.
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Caye International Bank Limited
is a Class "A" international bank in Belize. The regulatory authority,
the Central Bank of Belize, sets the standards for bank secrecy, high
liquidity, and capital adequacy. The bank's license permits it to
carry on business with individuals and corporations who are
non-residents of Belize. Caye International Bank offers a full range
of global banking and investment services, including major currencies,
stocks, bonds, mutual funds and precious metals.
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Center For Small Government seeks to shrink
the size of Big Government. To
dramatically reduce government spending, taxes, power, debt, assets, and
liabilities. We aim to dismantle, reduce, and remove Big Government policies and
programs. At all levels of government: federal, state, and local |
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Chadwicke Inc. offers the affluent
individual-family and business owner access to a global network of trusted,
proven and experienced professionals in the financial service industry
strategically located in the major world financial centers. Chadwicke select
private money managers have over 1.5 billion under management.
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Chestnut Petroleum
is an independent oil and gas company currently developing projects in
Louisiana, Texas, and California. We acquire and develop oil and gas assets
through programs that include the purchase and re-engineering of existing wells,
and the drilling of new wells. Chestnut prides itself in its expert in-house
engineering, geology, and project management. As an owner-operator of its own
fields, Chestnut holds a direct stake in the success of every project.
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Collectors Universe, Inc.
is a leading provider of value added services to
the high-value collectibles and diamond and
colored gemstone markets. The Collectors
Universe brands are among the strongest and best
known in their respective markets. We
authenticate and grade collectible coins, sports
cards, autographs, stamps, currency, diamonds
and colored gemstones. We also compile and
publish authoritative information about United
States and world coins, collectible sports cards
and sports memorabilia, collectible stamps,
diamonds and colored gemstones.
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ECI Development - What
would you do with over 5 miles of beachfront? Have you ever
kicked yourself for not doing something that would have turned a
small investment into a sizable fortune? If you bought Pacific
real estate in Costa Rica 10 years ago, you netted over 5 times
your initial investment. Now imagine being the developer who
made 20 times or more. Timing is important, but more so, is
the way you get involved.
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Eagle Publishing is America's
leading source of books and periodicals with a conservative,
free-enterprise focus. Eagle periodicals, books, and book clubs
give readers up-to-the-minute news as well as in-depth analysis
and commentary on the events that shape our world.
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Estate
Planning Specialist, LLC assists thousands of
Americans in properly planning their estates. Founder David T.
Phillips
is a nationally
recognized consumer advocate for insurance, annuities and estate
planning.
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Euro Pacific Capital
is a full service, NASD-registered broker/dealer that
has historically been recognized for its expertise in foreign
markets and securities. Through its direct relationships with
countless foreign trading desks, the firm's clients are able to
avoid the large spreads often imposed by domestic market makers
of foreign securities, thereby substantially reducing overall
transaction costs.
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Fairway Capital and
company have been providing innovative solutions for the high
net worth senior market since 1994. Based in Newport Beach, CA
we offer our clients a wide array of essential financial
planning services from estate planning to life settlements.
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FLOW is dedicated to
liberating the entrepreneurial spirit for good and directing it
towards creating sustainable peace, prosperity, and happiness
for all in our lifetime. The
FLOW Vision is based on the principles of economic
freedom, voluntary exchange, and individual initiative, combined
with social and environmental consciousness, and embodies FLOW
Principles, which include commitments to human flourishing,
non-violence, and radical tolerance
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The Fraser Institute
is an independent non-partisan research and educational
organization, with offices across Canada and in the U.S. They
measure and study the impact of competitive markets and
government interventions on individuals and society. Their
peer-reviewed research is distributed around the world and has
contributed to increased understanding of how economic policy
affects people. |
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Forbes Magazines |
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Fund Advisors of America is a
full-service investment advisor registered with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. They provide a full-range of services and specialize in money management and tax-deferred investments.
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Global Resource Investments, Ltd.
is a full service brokerage firm that focuses on natural resource
investments worldwide. Led by Chairman Rick Rule, the company has
built a national reputation for its specialist expertise assisting
high net worth individuals, corporations and institutions take
advantage of global opportunities in the oil and gas, mining,
alternative energy, agriculture, forestry and water industries.
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Founded in 1973,
The Heritage Foundation is a research and
educational institute - a think tank - whose mission is to formulate and promote
conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited
government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong
national defense.
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Laissez
Faire Books the official bookstore of FreedomFest '08, offers the
world's best selection of books on liberty
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The National
Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan
public policy research organization, established in 1983. The NCPA's goal is to
develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control,
solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial
private sector. Topics include reforms in health care, taxes, Social Security,
welfare, criminal justice, education and environmental regulation. |
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The Oxford Club is a private,
international network of trustworthy and knowledgeable investors
and entrepreneurs, with a global, free-market approach to building
wealth for its members. The Club is founded on the belief
that 70,000 members working together are infinitely better off
than one investor working alone. For over 20 years, we've
consistently delivered to our members, all over the world, timely
and proven investment strategies that work - even when the economy
falters and the stock market stalls.
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Universidad Francisco Marroquín
is a Guatemalan private university offering undergraduate
and graduate degree programs. Their mission is to teach and
disseminate the ethical, legal and economic principles of a
society of free and responsible persons.
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Jeffrey M. Verdon Law Group, LLP,
provides sophisticated estate planning and asset protection
advice. Clients who choose us for their estate planning and
litigation sensitive assets protection needs do so because they
realize that effective estate, income and generation skipping tax
savings will not come from conventional "off-the-shelf" planning,
but instead from innovative and creative tax planning techniques.
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Allied Nevada is engaged in
the evaluation, acquisition, exploration and advancement of gold
exploration and development projects in Nevada. Our Management
works to identify opportunities to improve the value of our gold
projects through exploration drilling and/or introducing
technological innovations. The goal of this work is to move
properties into development and, ultimately into production. |
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Guinness Atkinson Funds
provides six no-load mutual funds for investors interested in
capitalizing on innovation and profound change such as:
1. The dramatic
growth underway in China and Asia 2. The increase in
demand for energy and the tightening of world oil resources
3. The shift to alternative energy and 4. The continued shift
from the old to the New Economy and global innovation.
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Since its founding
in 1977,
David Hall Rare Coins (DHRC)
has specialized exclusively in gem quality rare coins and has
consistently led the worldwide market in the sale of these
treasures. As one of the nation's largest rare coin dealers with
approximately 1,100 authorized associate dealers, DHRC has
helped build many of the major collections in existence today.
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Liberty Watch: The Magazine
Advocating spending controls, confronting crooked administrators,
and exposing corruption, Liberty Watch: The Magazine is Nevada’s
No. 1 publication for Libertarian perspectives. Edited by Mike Zigler, Liberty Watch: The
Magazine features popular columnists such as Lew Rockwell, Joe
Sobran, John Stossel, Walter Williams as well as Nevada’s own Doug
French and local author Jarret Keene.
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The
Marijuana Policy Project is
the largest marijuana policy reform organization in the United
States. MPP works to minimize the harm associated with marijuana — both the
consumption of marijuana and the laws that are intended to
prohibit such use. MPP focuses on removing criminal penalties for
marijuana use, with a particular emphasis on making
marijuana medically available to seriously ill people who
have the approval of their doctors.
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The Investment Planning & Management Group
(IPMG) in Atlanta is lead by Ron Miller and Martin
Truax, Managing Directors at Morgan Keegan & Co., They focus
on portfolio management strategies that have investment risk
profiles ranging from conservative to aggressive and with
investment goals of income and/or growth.
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Openworld is
transnational social venture formed
to help grassroots initiatives and global good causes become
self-funding. Openworld
catalyzes formation of free zones and free
institutions
– actual as well
as virtual – in new ways that build assets for civil society
initiatives. |
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At
The Sovereign Society
our mission is to help you achieve Total Wealth - the peace of
mind that comes with knowing your financial affairs are kept
private, your assets are fully (and legally) protected and that
you have unfettered access to the world’s top performing
investments. We've identified the safest and most private
nations around the globe, where our members can find the best
offshore banks, tax havens, legal structures, insurance
vehicles, investment opportunities and tax management solutions.
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U.S. Global Investors was initially formed in
1968 to manage a growth fund that evolved into our Gold Shares
Fund, the nation’s first no-load precious metals fund. Since
then, the company has grown into a widely diversified range of
investments.
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Since 2001,
Vista Gold has acquired
a number of gold projects with the expectation that higher
gold prices would significantly increase their value.
Properties Include: Paredones Amarillos and Guadalupe de los
Reyes in Mexico, Mt Todd in Australia, Yellow Pine in Idaho,
Awak Mas in Indonesia, Long Valley in California and
Amayapampa in Bolivia. These seven properties host 9.9
million ounces of measured and indicated gold resources and
3.9 million ounces of inferred gold resources
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The
Beacon Hill Institute is a world-renowned learning and research
center that develops and performs innovative economic and statistical analyses
of current and emerging public policy issues. It aims to strengthen that
function by: providing local, state, national and international research
entities with state-of-the-art tools and economic analyses, partnering with a
PhD granting department of economics, and expanding its reputation for providing
objective analysis to examine and influence public policy.
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The
Cato
Institute seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy
debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited
government, individual liberty, free markets and peace. Toward that goal, the
Institute strives to achieve greater involvement of the intelligent, concerned
lay public in questions of policy and the proper role of government.
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Celebrity Vault is the preeminent purveyor
of classic celebrity art. If you are interested in art and photography featuring
Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones or any other celebrities - or
if you would like to join our mailing list for exclusive celebrity events,
please email us at
info@thecelebrityvault.com.
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The Center for Competitive Politics is a
non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public on the actual effects
of money in politics, and the results of a more free and competitive electoral
process.
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Discovery Institute's mission is to make a positive vision of the
future practical. The Institute discovers and promotes ideas in the common sense
tradition of representative government, the free market and individual liberty.
Our mission is promoted through books, reports, legislative testimony, articles,
public conferences and debates, plus media coverage and the Institute's own
publications and Internet website. |
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Ferris Capital Management investment
philosophy is based on the following principles:
- Focus, not diversification
- Find competitive advantages
- Find high quality assets at a large discount to net asset value
- The exercise of patience provides a competitive advantage over other market
participants
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The
Foundation for Economic Education
(FEE), one of the oldest free-market
organizations in the United States, was founded in 1946 by
Leonard E. Read to study and advance the freedom philosophy.
FEE's mission is to offer the most consistent case for the
"first principles" of freedom: the sanctity of private
property, individual liberty, the rule of law, the free
market, and the moral superiority of individual choice and
responsibility over coercion. |
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The mission of
The Future of Freedom Foundation
is to advance freedom by providing an uncompromising moral
and economic case for individual liberty, free markets,
private property, and limited government. |
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Goldwater Institute is
Arizona’s premier policy research organization. In keeping
with the principles advanced by Senator Barry Goldwater, the
Goldwater Institute is dedicated to protecting and expanding
economic freedom,
constitutional liberty
and educational opportunity.
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Through strategic
litigation, training, communication and outreach, the
Institute for Justice advances a rule of law
under which individuals can control their destinies as free
and responsible members of society. |
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Liberty is a journal of
culture and politics written from a classical liberal point
of view. The magazine is available by subscription and at
better newsstands and bookstores.
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National Center for Constitutional
Studies
was
created in 1971 to repopularize the Constitution of the
United States in the tradition of America's Founding
Fathers. Through our seminars, books, videos, study courses,
and other educational materials based on the original
writings of the founders, we have been able to teach
hundreds of thousands of people throughout the Nation. We
are supported by modern-day patriots who are committed to
helping us share the Founding Fathers' message. Our goal
this year is to encourage every American to read the
Constitution before Election Day in November.
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The
National Right to Work Legal Defense
Foundation, established in 1968, is a
nonprofit, charitable organization providing free legal aid
to employees whose human or civil rights have been violated
by abuses of compulsory unionism. |
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Superfund
companies are among the global leaders in providing
managed futures funds, offering the potential to
profit from the award-winning Superfund strategy.
Managed futures funds trade on strictly
regulated futures exchanges. Since the launch of the
flagship Superfund fund in 1996, Superfund clients
have continued to profit from the award-winning
Superfund trading strategy with more than 12 years
of proven performance.
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The
mission of the
Tax Foundation is
to educate taxpayers about sound tax policy and the size
of the tax burden borne by Americans at all levels of
government. From its founding in 1937, the Tax
Foundation has been grounded in the belief that the
dissemination of basic information about government
finance is the foundation of sound policy in a free
society.
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Value View Financial Corp
was founded to help individuals achieve their financial
goals. We seek to provide attractive returns through
individualized investment planning. We have
established a sound reputation with our clients by providing
a personalized focus and skilled investment management. |
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Wiley
is a
leading global business publisher, with longstanding success
and credibility with our customers and our publishing
partners. Our programs cover every topic on the business
shelf, from the introductory level to the highest
professional need, from long-selling standard works to
popular bestsellers. We are proud to be the publisher of
EconoPower by Mark Skousen and Crash Proof by
Peter Schiff. To learn more, please visit
www.wileyfinance.com. |
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Zephyr Electric is
committed to the development of technologies that can
harness the power of the wind.is currently developing a
series of wind farms and wind ranches across the United
States |
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