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I'm 99.99999 % sure this is BS, just want someone who knows something to confirm... (Original Post) steve2470 May 2014 OP
Snopes here steve2470 May 2014 #1
results on snopes riverbendviewgal May 2014 #5
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2014 #9
Most damage would be the progressive effect of the end of the petro dollar recyclying program dipsydoodle May 2014 #2
Porter Stansberry is so concerned about this - that he will help you out. Just send him $149. djean111 May 2014 #3
the law is an IGA called FATCA riverbendviewgal May 2014 #4
sounds like an ad to me 2pooped2pop May 2014 #6
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2014 #10
I smell a skunk IADEMO2004 May 2014 #7
You must have really shitty advise and offers to sell Curmudgeoness May 2014 #8

steve2470

(37,468 posts)
1. Snopes here
Thu May 8, 2014, 06:25 AM
May 2014
http://www.snopes.com/politics/conspiracy/hr2847.asp

Origins: This item about the passage of H.R. 2847 causing the U.S. dollar to collapse as of 1 July 2014 is another example financial scarelore put out in conjunction with an investment come-on, in this case an ominous sales pitch put out by the folks at Stansberry & Associates Investment Research LLC.

This latest panic piece is offered in a Stansberry & Associates presentation featuring a number of scary-sounding statements about how we in the U.S. are soon to experience a "near-complete shutdown of the American economy," will see "the savings of millions wiped out," will be living under the imposition of martial law by the federal government, and will be struggling in the aftermath of a number of other apocalyptic financial scenarios.

And according to Stansberry & Associates, this remarkable, radical collapse of the United States monetary system and "our normal way of life" is going into effect in a mere matter of months (just like a similar recent conspiracy scare about the federal government's plan to eliminate 16 states from the U.S. in the very near future).

But wait ... all one needs in order to avoid suffering from this devastating national calamity, one that will collapse our entire monetary system and spell doom for the American way of life, is a little information. Information that can be yours if you'll just shell out $149 for a one-year subscription to Stansberry's Investment Advisory newsletter.


Yep, BS, just as I thought.

Response to steve2470 (Reply #1)

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
2. Most damage would be the progressive effect of the end of the petro dollar recyclying program
Thu May 8, 2014, 06:29 AM
May 2014

and that wouldn't be overnight.

Easy subject to search.

riverbendviewgal

(4,320 posts)
4. the law is an IGA called FATCA
Thu May 8, 2014, 06:50 AM
May 2014

Very possible. Many Americans are getting Citizen Loss of Nationality papers. any American working abroad will find it hard to have a bank account and may even lose their jobs. These are duals and accidental americans.

Prepare for sure. Divesify.

 

2pooped2pop

(5,420 posts)
6. sounds like an ad to me
Thu May 8, 2014, 07:14 AM
May 2014

though I am pretty sure if the republicans take the house and senate, we can all kiss our asses goodbye.

This seems to be mostly worried about not having such easy access to foreign tax shelters.


H.R. 2847, also known as the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act (or HIRE), was a Congressional bill passed into law in March 2010 that sought to provide payroll tax breaks and incentives for businesses to hire unemployed workers. A section of that bill, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (known as FATCA), sought to eliminate the non-compliance of U.S. taxpayers who hold foreign accounts by requiring those taxpayers (including those living outside the U.S.) to report certain foreign accounts and offshore assets to the government, and by requiring foreign financial institutions to report information about the ownership of overseas assets held by U.S. taxpayers to the government:
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/conspiracy/hr2847.asp#ddgPMJ7rJ6h752JP.99

Response to 2pooped2pop (Reply #6)

IADEMO2004

(5,882 posts)
7. I smell a skunk
Thu May 8, 2014, 07:31 AM
May 2014
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2013/04/02/financial-publisher-who-defrauded-public-investors-is-back-with-another-ominous-video


Stansberry has reason to be careful. In 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission sued him for allegedly fraudulent practices toward his clients. As a result, Stansberry was "ordered to pay $1.5 million in restitution and civil penalties for disseminating false stock information and defrauding public investors through a financial newsletter," according to The Baltimore Sun.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
8. You must have really shitty advise and offers to sell
Thu May 8, 2014, 07:18 PM
May 2014

if you go to those depths to sell something.

But sorry, I don't know about the fact or fiction in this....except that anything this dire is putting up red flags.

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