Gary A. Scott

Fresh Ecuador Roses. We are often told “take time to smell the roses”. Here are 50 fresh Ecuador roses recently delivered to my North Carolina home. But how much will fresh roses cost? How much does it cost for a dozen fresh roses to smell? Here are the best deals I found at three [...]

Train Stocks have been healthy due to the oil crunch. Readers from around the world have sent information that enhances ideas from our last message, Investing in Trains.  See http://www.garyascott.com/2008/06/28/2164.html if you missed this. Here is one fun idea about investing in railroads and trains. “Gary,  On the subject of trains, I thought I’d point out that although [...]

Gary Scott’s Course Schedule for the balance of 2008 in Ecuador and North Carolina is below. We hope to see you at our hotel in Cotacachi Ecuador. or here at our North Carolina farm or on this beach in San Clemente, Ecuador. Our next course will be held here at our North Carolina farm this August 15-17. Susan Stanton [...]

Investing in trains takes an interesting twist because investing in change is like driving a car. The faster it goes, the less you want to be focusing on what’s behind. Yet the time space continuum is curved.  Sometimes looking far enough ahead, pictures what was behind…because the past becomes the future and this may be [...]

Multi Currency Water Trends I love investing in water. This is one reason we bought our farm. We have dozens of springs. One of them called the Indian’s Trough is even a historical site. Here it is: Multi currency water investments in shares also offers great opportunity. Recent messages at this site have looked at [...]

A long term multi currency research project by asset allocation expert, Ibbotson Associates, looked at various returns over 95 years of differing assets classes under varied conditions. The asset classes we bonds, T-bills. Equities, Housing and Silver. Over the entire 95 years the return was: Equities: 11.9% per annum Housing: 6.7% per annum Bonds: 4.8% per annum T-Bills: 4.6% per [...]

Ecuador property offers special opportunity but like any property market has its unique  features that anyone interested in getting good property deals has to know. A reader attempting to buy some Ecuador property just sent this note: “Gary, FYI.  The people at the Hacienda San Francisco tell me the asking price is $650K, not the $200K you [...]

Multi currency investing becomes increasingly important as US  debt and spending cause the US dollar to fall. As greenback weakness grows, so too does the need to diversify into other  currencies.   Yet the greater this need, the more the US government will  attempt  to regulate investors who diversify abroad. This makes multi currency investing harder because more [...]

This recent note from a reader about International investing started me thinking about the profits we can make by adding fun into our investing and business process. This note was sent after I wrote that real estate, shares, and commodities like timber and water are great asset classes for fighting inflation. The reader replied: “Gary  Another great [...]

International investing and business have proven themselves over the past 40 years to be profitable. This series is looking at how important it is for the international investing and business process to provide fulfillment and fun! The last two parts of this series reviewed that the Western medical model has many flaws, and they are [...]