Gary A. Scott

Investing in Leeds (in the North Country of England ) makes sense to me even though property prices in England seem sky high. Leeds is England ’s largest financial center outside London . Further expansion for Leeds over the next ten years as a leading financial services center is predicted [...]

You may want to know about a place that provides extra profit potential in Ecuador… the Galapagos. There are two reasons why few places are as special for investing as this pristine group of islands.  The first reason is the incredible brand image of the Galapagos. The second is the enormous demand [...]

The latest review of the five multi currency portfolios we have tracked since November 1, 2006 (nine and a half months) reflects the drawback in the market. How interesting. These of course are the times that separate the men from the boys, the girls from the women and the successful investors from the poor. Making money is easy [...]

Investing in history makes sense. Merri and I were reminded of this fact on our recent trip to Leeds in the Northeast of England. During our visit there, the British Shakespeare Company was performing Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” at Kirkstall Abbey Cloisters for the Leeds Open Air Shakespeare Festival. Our son, Jake, [...]

The sun always shines somewhere and Merri and I proved this while in England . The poor island had been having record rains. We were worried that Francesca’s wedding reception scheduled for a small Gloucestershire village would be ruined. Here is a BBC photo showing what the surrounding area of [...]

A delicious global investment lesson was consumed at Bettys Yorkshire . Investing outside the US dollar? “Is this necessarily going to work?” A reader asked this question when he wrote: “ Gary , a newsletter I subscribe to and a website I read are both presenting many financial graphs about global [...]

Pound inflation showed its ugly head when Merri and I recently spent a week in England for our daughter’s wedding. During the trip, we stayed in Surrey, Yorkshire and Gloucestershire. This is a beautiful country, wonderful people and a case study on how wonderful (and how bad inflation can make) [...]

Economics and change can be seen in almost every walk of life. Merri and I just experienced a lot more about economics and change while in England where we celebrated the marriage of our daughter, Francesca.  Here is the happy couple after their ceremony which we held at Richmond Park [...]

The multi currency history of the five multi currency portfolios we have been tracking in our Multi Currency Educational Service is below. Portfolios 2007 Dec 29 Mar 27 June 28 July 20 July 27 Aug 10 Swiss Samba 8.10% 16.15% 44.80% 45.84% 44.47% 38.00% Emerging Market 15.11% 12.81% 54.31% 67.67% 74.67% 61.27% Dollar Short 12.91% 20.12% 33.81% 40.31% 37.90% 29.48% Dollar Neutral 7.94% 16.58% 37.64% 38.07% 37.14% 29.13% Green 34.77% 86.86% 178.28% 214.15% 197.01% 189.13% The current sag in all five multi currency portfolios reflects what the press [...]

Investing in caves could show us a new trend in home buying patterns.  This was my thinking when a recent message looked at a recent cave purchase. See http://www.garyascott.com/2007/07/17/1746.html Our son Jake had written; “Dad, a BBC article of July 4th entitled ‘Cave home auctioned for £100,000’ shows how expensive things are [...]