The Hidden History of the Federal Reserve

A brand new special report from FTMDaily

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Welcome to this week’s podcast! On today’s program, Jerry Robinson shares a segment from our brand new report entitled, “The Hidden History of the Federal Reserve“. What exactly is the Federal Reserve? Well, it is not “federal” and it definitely does not hold any “reserves”. In fact, it is the central banking system in the United States whose job description includes setting monetary policy in the country. Monetary policy consists mainly of setting interest rate targets and bank reserve requirements. These tools allow the Federal Reserve to indirectly control the amount of money supply in the economy, and in turn, help provide “stability in the financial system” and “full employment and stable prices” (according to the Fed’s official website).
But what you will learn in today’s podcast is that the Federal Reserve has a dark history that led to its current form today. Many people do not realize that two other central banks were in place in the United States (and subsequently ended) before the Fed came into existence in the winter of 1913. So the Fed is actually the third attempt at central banking in the United States.
Furthermore, the real reason for the American Revolutionary war lies partly in the colonists’ efforts to escape the clutches of central banking in Britain. During the mid-18th century, Britain, who was suffering from a skyrocketing national debt, sought to outlaw the colonists’ currency (the Colonial Strip) and replace it with currency printed by the Bank of England. This, according to Benjamin Franklin, caused massive unemployment in America within only a year. Coupled with the heavy taxation Britain imposed upon the colonies, this monetary oppression led to the sparks that would eventually rise between the two nations, and the colonies successfully won independence from the heavy tyrannical hand of the British central banks (or so they thought).
Download the entire free report, The Hidden History of the Federal Reserve, by clicking here.

One Boston Fund key to Boston bombing hoax - Nathan Folks

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Crisis actors, smoke bombs, fake blood and literal "smoke and mirrors" were all part of what was the false flag terrorist attack called the Boston Marathon Bombing. To anyone who saw the pictures and footage of fake blood, make- up artists and smiling “victims”. It was obvious that something was not right. For those involved in filmmaking and in the know the discrepancies were obvious. We spoke to famous Hollywood filmmaker, producer and director Nathan Folks about why he is certain the Boston Marathon Bombing was a false flag terrorist attack.

Hello, this is John Robles. I’m speaking with Mr. Nathan Folks, he is a well known US based film and TV director and producer. He is also one of the organizers of the Worldwide Wave of Action and a truth seeker. This is part 2 of a longer interview.

PART 1

Robles: Can you tell us more details about the Boston bombing? Who was behind it exactly and the scheme where they made millions of dollars, as many details as you can, I would appreciate it...

Folks: I think there needs to be an investigation into the One Boston Fund and the money that millions of people gave to that fund which was a complete fraud. And I think that people that are making money of this need to be investigated and by doing so I think the truth will come out. But I also believe that if you do a little bit of homework of who actually is running One Boston Fund that supported a lot of this, it goes right up the line to Homeland Security and the people that wrote books on this exact nature. I am not going to name names but it is all on the writing. It is all documents, it is all there, it is just no one wants to read it and admit it.

Robles: What was the connection with Sandy Hook? Because there was some connection to some crisis actors from Sandy Hook and some people that were funding the Boston fund.

Folks: Yeah, it is very evident that there is a family, a very specific family, I believe the name is Greenberg, that has been used several times in several different events: in Sandy Hook they were the crying parents of one of the deceased boys.

Well, the same woman, the same man they were both used in several different instances, in several different events that have taken place in the last several years and they use the crisis actors over and over. They pay them off once and you know... I won’t be surprised when Carlos Arredondo is another hero of another event...

Robles: And he was at Boston, he was the..

Folks: Carlos Arredondo was the man in a cowboy hat, he was the Boston hero by getting these non-bleeding two-legged-blown-off man to safety.

If they honestly believe that we all think that is real, then they have another thing coming because that is the biggest joke I have ever seen.

Robles: I remember I studied the photographs of him running through the streets and just the expressions on all of the people’s faces was enough to tell me something was wrong. I mean I remember there was all these people apparently laying on the road and I think...

Folks: Oh yeah. The production designers in the scenes, I mean the makeup artist is in the scene helping everyone and then all of a sudden she is injured, you know, there is pictures of her being injured at the end. I mean, it is just so unbelievably ridiculous that I don’t want this to happen again, I don’t want them to put the country through this again.

Robles: It wasn’t just the country it was the world? I mean, I’m sitting here in Moscow, this was a pretty big thing for us. I mean, we were reporting it all night.

Folks: Yeah, you are right, it is putting the country in chaos and it is wrong.

You know, I know a friend of mine that has kids in school and the kid in school; it traumatized her for months after Sandy Hook. You know, this is just wrong what they are doing. And for whatever reasons they are doing it, it has got to be stopped.

And it’s out and they are going to come after me and they are going to say: “Oh yes he has no remorse for people that have been killed and no remorse for the injured.”

And I want to say: “You know what? Prove it!”

I want to interview every doctor that was used in the Boston Bombing, I’d like to find out where that money really went for the One Boston Fund, I want them to prove it, you know.

If they are going to come out against me and start saying: “Oh, well he has no feelings for all these people that have been killed.”

Well, I put it back on them. The world know that this was a sham but no one wants to talk about it. But if they are going to come out and the they want to actually say: “This was real!”

Then I want them to come out and prove it other than these pictures or this media they put on the news. I want to see real proof, because that is what they make us do! Come up with real proof. Let’s see them come up with real proof.

Robles: Can you tell us about the Tsarnaev brothers, I’m sure they would like to see proof and their parents would and their father would and their mother would.

Folks: Well, in my opinion I think they were working with the FBI. I think that most of these incidences they are working with certain government companies, organizations.

I think they would like to see the proof too. I know that there were some lawsuits coming out against certain people that were blamed at first about the incident and I know why he is trying to sue, it is because his name was ruined in an event that never really happened.

So, I’d say: “You know what, join the lawsuit, prove to us and the world that this actually existed and then we will tell you how we really think.”

Robles: As a producer, as a professional with your professional acumen and with a cold professional eye you say: “Boston was a false flag attack organized by…?”

Folks: I believe it was organized by someone and I don’t know who.

You can only hope that the government is not involved. You can only hope that we are here doing the right thing, but for whatever the reason it was not real. And anyone in the film industry will back me up that it is very obvious how they edited it and cut and spliced that scene together.

Robles: The biggest evidence that it was false: what would you say that would be?

Folks: I would say that I would look at the One Boston Fund and I would find out where that money went and I would… You know they always say: “Follow the money”, well, I would follow the money.

I’d find out: each one of these people who got money from this situation; why they got money; what public relations firm based out of DC represented all these people (I think that is another “untying” of the rope if you will), and it is just all there, it is all there.

Robles: Why aren’t people screaming about this? Why isn’t there an outcry?

Folks: Because they are controlling the media and the Internet. Even if there is an outcry no one is going to hear it.

We’ve been subject to no more freedom of speech and our constitutional rights here have been eliminated, because I can tell you there are millions and millions of people, millions and millions of Americans that would not stand for this. And I think this is the first chance we have to start to build back any credibility that maybe we ever had.

I think the Bush Administration, after what they have done and the lives they’ve taken from the world, we have a lot of catching up and fixing to do.

I think love needs to be spread now and that is the only thing that really, I’m about.

Robles: I think the only way to restore any kind of credibility is to go after all those people who did all this, from the torture at Guantanamo to 9-11. I think even going back to the Kennedy Assassination which they continue to obfuscate…

Folks: These people need to be held liable for what they’ve done.

Robles: I was happy to hear Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov yesterday say that the US should be held accountable. They should take responsibility for the coup they organized in Ukraine. But that is another entire matter...

Can you tell us about the Worldwide Wave of Action, what that is about and then about your film? And if you’d like to comment on the current media (I don’t know what it is) "alternate reality" that the US has created regarding Ukraine.

Folks: First Run Entertainment is releasing and distributing a film that I’ve produced with a series of producers called: “The Prosecution of an American President” which goes back to the Bush Administration and lies that they told during that administration.

Vincent Bugliosi who: is reported as one of the top prosecutors in the world; who put Charles Manson away; who essentially wrote some of the best books of our time, is the star of this film, showing the evidence of how the Bush Administration lied to the people in order to convince everyone, including Congress, to go to war. And going to a sovereign nation that has never done anything to us and do it based on lies.

People don’t want to hear that but it is something that needs to be said and it needs to be faced and it will. It will eventually come out and people will eventually do something about it.

The time is now! The Worldwide Wave of Action is a campaign: anonymously many people have come together worldwide to promote positive change in the world and expose the truth and expose people that are run by evil companies and evil corporations and evil governments and…

You know, there is good in the world. And that good has to come out somewhere and it has to beat this evil! They have to fight! And the Worldwide Wave of Action is that campaign if the people let it happen.

Robles: Where can people find out more about it? Dates, times, whatever, and how to join?

Folks: People can join the Wave of Action, it’s www dot wave of action dot org and also my site which is www dot worldwide wave of action dot com. We will be launching a new website, right now it is just a temporary page but a new website will be coming out and we will have a lot more information how the world can help and help everyone come to the truth that we are all seeking.

Robles: Can I ask you a little bit of a personal question if you don’t mind?

Folks: Sure.

Robles: When I first talked to you, about a year ago, you sounded different, you sounded optimistic, you sounded younger, you sounded more innocent, now you sound a little “tired”. How has this affected you personally if you don’t mind me asking?

Folks: I can tell you that this last year, 2013, was pretty much an awakening for me on many levels. A lot of corporate and “other” situations that are happening, that I don’t know if they are related or not but…

When someone is sickened and put in the hospital and abused in certain ways; you are beaten down, but the only thing that it is really to me: I may be tired and I may be pretty much exhausted from working on all these things, but the fire is lit brighter and harder than it has ever been. Because now I see how much more this is important to the world and how the film “The Prosecution of an American President” (as well as the Worldwide Wave of Action) now, is more needed that it has ever been.

I was naïve a year ago. I was blinded by many things and as soon as these things came to light I saw what I needed to do, which was to step up and start making it different and doing it now because no one else seems to be doing it.

And the Worldwide Wave of Action I believe is that exactly: everyone around the world coming together to demand the truth and demand these people to be held responsible.

Robles: Ok, “we” are going to help you any way we can, we are going to get this out as much as we can. It was a great honor speaking with you. I really appreciate you. I know you are actually in real danger, so we will do our best to get this out as much as possible.

Folks: Great! Wonderful! Thank you.

Robles: I think the best thing you can do (and the best thing we can do for you) is publicize everything that you are saying and just for the listeners, one more time: you were really, seriously persecuted; you had to leave your home several times and stuff. I think you should write a book about that sometime.

Folks: Yeah, I think that after we can get everything else out,I can finally sit down and take the time to write something. I’d like to do that.

Robles: Is there anything you want to say about Boston to rap it up? The FBI agents that were killed, the Tsarnaev friend that was killed… Can you comment on those? Do you want to?

Folks: The peripheral people that were involved, we don’t know why they were killed, we don’t know if they were exposing the truth and then killed. I may not be alive tomorrow because I’m talking about it.

There are all these things that we don’t know, there are certain things we just don’t know. But one thing we do know is that there is something really, really smelly about this whole situation and it needs to exposed, it needs to be investigated, even as must as the JFK Assassination.

Robles: As a film producer… (last comment if you could about… a little off topic I’m sorry but) I’ve heard reports from people in the states, from people in Ukraine, from people in Europe, that they’ve watched television reports of tanks rolling through the streets of Kiev, etc. etc., stuff that we know is not happening. Is it possible in 2014 that they are fabricating all this news?

Folks: After Boston I could say that I’m almost positive that they are more than likely fabricating news to create a fear and design the outcome that they want.

When I say ‘they’ I mean the evil people that are pushing for wars and pushing for The Complex and pushing for everything that we are not about. And yeah, I don’t see that it would be above them to do something like that at this point! I think that they definitely have something to do with it.

Robles: It is a war not against terror but it is a war using terror, it is a war that is hyped-up “on” terror I think, and they are terrorizing the people.

Folks: It is now a war on freedom of speech, it is now a war on the media and it is a war on the world’s civil liberties and that is the real war we are fighting now.

Robles: Anything else you want to finish up with or?

Folks: No, I just think that if anybody wants to get involved, join the www.waveofaction.org or see my site at www.worldwidewaveofaction.com which will be a platform for the film that we are releasing and all new information that comes out about this situation .

Robles: Ok, thank you very much, Nathan, I really appreciate it.

Folks: Thank you, John! Thank you so much.

This is John Roles, you were listening to an interview with Nathan Folks, he is a well-known US film and TV director and producer. He is also the organizer of the Worldwide Wave of Action. You can find the rest of this interview on our website voiceofrussia.com. Thank you very much for listening! 

PART 1

^{Crisis actors being positioned and made up. Notice red paint. Blood is never such a bright red. Scene workers ignoring man with sticks attached to his amputated legs. No blood in area where his leg was apparently severed and what is supposed to be a bone is much too thin and straight to be a lower leg bone. The expression on his face is the most telling clue that something is wrong. Photo provided by Nathan Folks.}

Gold, The Petrodollar, & Why Putin is Laughing Off U.S. Sanctions

The Truth About Why OPEC Was Formed

Source: EPJ

David Henderson informs us during a speech at The Naval War College, in Newport, Rhode Island:

We all heard of OPEC in 1973 when they almost quadrupled the price of oil. But OPEC formed in 1960. Why? Because President Eisenhower had imposed import quotas on oil and given preference to Mexico, Venezuela and Canada. And so some of the – Algeria was one of them – I know there’s someone from Algeria here – and three other countries organized to essentially fight back. And then they gradually acquired members in the ’60s and early ’70s. So OPEC was an unintended consequence of US import quotas.

Here's Henderson on war and the ratchet effect:

 I was a senior economist with President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisors, my office was an old, exotic-looking building called the Old Executive Office Building, now the Eisenhower Building, located right next to the White House, which is separated by a narrow driveway. It’s the place most people work when they say they work in the White House. It’s not literally true they do. I’ve started doing that, too. Oh, yeah, I used to work in the White House.

(LAUGHTER)

Being a curious type, I looked into the history of the building and found that when it was first built in about 1870, it housed the War Department, the State Department and the Navy Department. That means that that building, combined with the Treasury, which was on the other side of the White House and just a carbon copy, housed virtually all of government except the post office and the fledgling Department of Agriculture. That was the size of the US government.

Now what happened in between that led to such a massive growth of the federal government in a country that was justifiably celebrated as the Land of the Free? And by the way, let me just give you a couple of statistics. The federal government in those days spent roughly between 2% and 3% of GDP. Now, it spends approximately 21%.

So what happened? A large part of what happened was war. A huge amount of the new power that the government took on in the 20th century was power that it acquired during and due to war. When the wars ended, the power diminished but never back close to its prewar level.

Economic historian Robert Higgs, in his bookCrisis and Leviathan, was the first to point out this pattern, and he called it a “ratchet effect.”...we generally in America think of Prohibition as starting in 1920, two years after the war. Well, not quite. It started during the war. During the war, the government imposed price controls on wheat. As almost any economist can tell you, if you impose a price control below the free-market price, you get a shortage. And when you get a shortage, the government then puts itself in line to get the resources first, and when everyone else has what’s left, it’s very hard for them to justify making grain into alcohol. So under the Lever Act, they imposed Prohibition. They refused to allow grain to be made into alcohol.

Also, other federal powers grew during World War I. The US government, under Wilson, nationalized the railways. They gave it back into private hands at the end of the war but they controlled them more at the end of the war than they had before. We also had the first draft since the Civil War in the United States as a result.

Also, our tax system. We had started taxing income in 1913. The top tax rate was 7%. And it was on incomes that, translated into today’s dollars, would be over $7 million. By the end of the war, the top tax rate was 77%; 11 times. And although Secretary Mellon, the Treasury Secretary in the ’20s, brought the tax rate down, he never brought the top tax rate below 25%. And the bottom tax rate started at 1% and it went to 6%.

So a big part of the growth of government in the United States, the federal government of the United States, as I said, was due to war.

Egypt: Price rises across the board

Egyptians trying to cover their growing expenses are to shoulder yet more burdens as a result of the government’s plans to tighten the fiscal deficit by lowering expenses and increasing revenues.
This will be translated into cutting subsidies on energy, alone representing 20 per cent of the state budget, and increasing taxes.
While officials and many experts say the increases in prices will not affect the low-income brackets of the population, other commentators fear that prices could rise for all as a result of the changes.
Source and full piece: Al Ahram Weekly, 1 May 2014

Gold And Silver – Elites Want War. Front Man Obama Pushing Hard.

by Michael Noonan

The modus operandi of the elites is to create chaos, preferably in the form of [profitable
for them] war.  Their purpose is to create major headaches for governments and people.
The next step is to “offer solutions” to end the chaos.  Without fail, the solutions always
favor the elite who gain more control as part of the cost for the rescue.

Why war?  A simple diversion used to cover the total insolvency of the entire Western
banking system and the failure of all fiat currencies.  The only solution will be financial
destruction, and major economic life disruptions, especially in the ill-prepared United
States.  Previews of what is in store for the United States are found in Greece, Cyprus,
Ireland, Venezuela, Argentina.  The list grows.

There is only one head of state pushing for war against Russia, using Ukraine as a pawn,
and that is the elite front-man, Barack Obama.  What business does he have instigating
chaos in that part of the world?  None, quite simply, yet he leads the charge.

Are the citizens of the United States urging him on?   No.  What about the Europeans
who transact billions of dollars in business with Russia, depend upon Russia for 20%
to 35% to supply their natural gas needs?  Are individual European states urging him
on?  No.  Too much at risk, and European leaders do not want to bear the consequences
of yet more sanctions that can end up hurting them more than hurting Russia.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was in Washington this weekend, giving the
appearance of being supportive of Obama but not offing it, directly.  Ms Merkel may
soon be saying auf weidersehen to her job within another year.  If the German people
are foolish enough to let the head Frau help decimate the German economy, through
risking hundreds of thousands of jobs, risking future contracts between major German
corporations and Russia, then like the docile Americans, the Germans will only have
themselves to blame.

If European states are opposed to more sanctions that will ending harming them, then
Obama has no other support, as he supports an illegal coup d’etat, the overtaking of an
elected government, and blames Putin for breaking rules.  Well, there is that unelected,
non-representative group, the IMF, which is in Obama’s hypocritical corner.  The IMF
promised Ukraine $17 billion in tranched loans, with one small catch in the not so fine
print: Ukraine, you must go to war against pro-Russian forces and take the eastern part
of Ukraine, or you do not get your money!

Now we have the IMF, [Rothschilds] telling one country to start a civil war and capture
the Eastern Ukraine.  This is how the elites work, and the Nobel Peace Prize recipient,
Barack Obama, is their front man, leading the charge, just like he did in Egypt, Libya,
Syria, Afghanistan.  Egypt was a purely political manuever.  Libya has oil, and prior to
the killing of Muammar Gaddafi, that country used to own gold, which was the first
order of business to ransack, just as the Ukrainian gold was the first thing to disappear,
into greedy Western thieving hands.  But always remember, according to Western
interests, gold has not useful value, at least not in your hands.  Syria is important for
Russian access to ship natural gas to Europe, and the US sees it as a threat to the petro-
dollar.   Afghanistan has heroin that supports the CIA drug trade and a huge source
of profitable money laundering for the Rothschild banking cartel.

What of Ukraine?  It may be just what the elite needs, once attempts to provoke war in
Syria failed.  Why is attacking and capturing Eastern Ukraine so important?  It has rich
farmland that produces income, unlike to poorer Western  Ukraine being exploited.
Without the income from the eastern farmland, how else will the IMF ever get repaid?

What has this to do with the price of gold and silver?  Both PMs need to be kept
suppressed and not viewed as an alternative to the world’s largest Ponzi scheme, the
Rothschild Western banking system, totally corrupt and insolvent to its core, but also
totally in charge of all Western governments.  The BRICS nations have created a fissure
that continues to grow and remains the most viable threat to the West.

Expectations are that more European companies will start aligning themselves with
Russia and China.  Germany remains a key player, in that regard.  Aligning herself
with Obama may be what costs Merkel her job.  Good riddance.

It seemed developing events would have already had an impact on gold and silver, but
last week’s yet another manipulation “take-down” delayed the inevitable.  It should be
an overt reminder to all of the control the elites have to do whatever is necessary in
order to maintain their power.  Maybe there will be more “suicided” events where mid-
tier bankers do their utmost best to defy gravity from varying heights of buildings.

[As an aside for our foreign readers, suicide is the taking of one's life.  Use of the term
"suicided" implies that the official reports of suicide in the 14 deaths, to date,  may have
been, shall we say, involuntarily assisted, hence suicided.]

The French banker, a woman named Lydia, was considered to be the first female to
be “suicided,” by her attempt to defy gravity and leap to her death.  Somehow, Sumana
Sultana, 44, a banker for Rupali Bank escaped attention when she hung herself from her
bedroom ceiling fan, back in January.  That brings the sudden rash of banker “suicides”
to 15.

It is a function of the elites to create problems like Ukraine, and/or any other area in
which distractions can be used and keep people focusing on the wrong issues.  The
fundamentals for gold and silver are not connected to price because of Rothschild-like
efforts, as we have been saying for the past few months.  Until then, except for
accumulating physical gold and silver at these absurdly low, artificial levels, keep one’s
powder dry and use reasonably close stops if entering the paper market.

A look at the charts:

The monthly remains in a TR holding its 1200 area lows very well.

It is easier to see the sideways movement from the thin line connecting the swing highs
and swing lows.  Price needs to rally above the 1390 area to turn the near term trend up.

Notice how price sell-offs are labored, relative to the wide range rally bars.  It is an overall
positive sign in market activity, and it may set the stage for long positions in the futures
market.

The monthly shows silver still bottoming, and the word patience keeps coming to mind.

Price sell-offs continue to hold, but lower swing highs show an inability of buyers to wrest
control from sellers.  Another test of support could weaken it sufficiently for sellers to get
another new low, wiping out a lot of stops and weak longs.  Otherwise, recent lows may
provide an anchor for trading futures from the long side

The composition of the market activity shows selling dropped at Thursday’s recent new
lows.  This is a plus for buyers who will recognize that sellers were AWOL when they had
a clear opportunity to drive price lower.  Friday’s increased volume, wide range rally bar
reflects how buyers acted and took advantage of the market-generated information.

 

Malaysian Property is Still a Good Deal in 2014: E&O Tells Us Why

Last year, Malaysia announced new policies for foreign property buyers. We all braced for a bloodbath, predicting something to match Singapore’s cooling measures. But talk about an anticlimax – the new policy had less impact than Navy ads have on recruitment. Here’s why Malaysian property remains attractive:

Policy Changes in Malaysia

Starting from 1st May 2014, the minimum purchase price for foreigners will be RM 1 million (previously RM 500,000). In addition, there is now a Real Property Gains Tax (RGPT). This tax is applied to your capital gains, should you sell a property above the purchase price.
The RPGT rate is 30%, if the property is sold within the first five years. From the sixth year onward, RPGT is 5%. According to investor Howard Kong, who currently owns two properties in the Istana region:
“The RPGT is to prevent overheating in the property market. They don’t want people to flip houses, they want long term investors. But there is not much impact, because if you are investing in Malaysian property you are probably planning to hold for five years or more anyway. The market here has never been good for flipping.”
The sentiment was shared by property developers E&O, during their launch of Andaman East. Special thanks to Aileen Han, Country Manager of E&O Property (Singapore).

How Do the New Regulations Affect the Property Market in Malaysia Anyway?

“We believe that the latest cooling measures, which include an increase in the Real Property Gains Tax (RPGT), are unlikely to dampen real demand. It is worth noting that the RPGT is a tax on the upside that does not impact the cost of purchase.
Nonetheless, we believe that the appeal of the Malaysian market to Singaporeans and Singapore-based residents will endure due to our proximity, shared heritage and cultural similarities coupled by the relative affordability of Malaysian properties…”
Note that the policy change has almost no impact on owner-occupiers (e.g. the Singaporeans who aren’t looking for profit, but just want a living space they can’t spit across). The RPGT won’t raise the price of the house, and owner-occupiers aren’t too worried about profit from the resale anyway.
But what about investors?

Don’t the New Regulations Make Malaysian Property Less Attractive as an Investment?

Well, let’s put it in context: less attractive compared to where? Every other country has its own regulations too. And many are comparable, or even stricter, than Malaysia’s. Aileen says that:
“With countries around the world trying to strike a balance between helping their citizens achieve home ownership and welcoming foreigners…property cooling measures do appear to be the new norm. It is no exception in Malaysia.”
Among the points Aileen raises are the fact that “Malaysia has foreigner-friendly property investment policies, which allow foreigners to own freehold and landed properties.” Note that it’s a fairly rare practice, for a country to allow foreigners to buy freehold.
“In general, Malaysia offers positive returns in both capital and rental yields. One may expect to enjoy healthy capital appreciation when purchasing directly from the developer. The margin of appreciation however depends on the timing of the investment, the exact location of the property and the strength of the developer.“
Take note about the “strength of the developer”. It’s different from Singapore, where land scarcity means that even mediocre properties sometimes luck out and deliver a good return. Stick with high-end properties when investing in Malaysia – mass market units are a dime a dozen there, and you’d be speculating on them.

But What Impact will the Regulations have on Rental Yield, Resale Value, etc?

Aileen remains confident about prospects in Malaysia:
“Demand for prime urban locations will always remain for those who can afford the exclusivity of such addresses as well as for those who aspire to do so. In fact, such properties are viewed as the prized “family inheritance” within investment portfolios as they have proven to hold their own even during tough times.“
As a private investor, Howard mostly agrees, with one caveat:
“From my experience rental yields are around 4%, and the new regulations aren’t really relevant to that. The main worry is finding a property with good management and location – there is a significant oversupply risk, with regard to mass market properties in Malaysia. But for high-end properties, potential gains are still high.”