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International Public Notice: The IRS Secret Sauce
By Anna Von Reitz


Please reference my Article about The Informer published yesterday and the example where he was wondering about the difference between the "States of the United States" referenced in Title 26 (the Income Tax Code) and "States of the Union".

Here, thanks to a Fellow Researcher, is the exact regulation confirming and admitting that "State" as defined in the IRS Code was a "State of the United States" and not a "State of the Union":

26 CFR Part § 31.3121(e)-1 State, United States, and citizen

Which takes you to:

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-26/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-31/subpart-B/subject-group-ECFR996050e2e4c4937/section-31.3121(e)-1

Which says:

§ 31.3121(e)-1 State, United States, and citizen.
(a) When used in the regulations in this subpart, the term “State” includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii before their admission as States, and (when used with respect to services performed after 1960) Guam and American Samoa.

(b) When used in the regulations in this subpart, the term “United States”, when used in a geographical sense, means the several states (including the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii before their admission as States), the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. When used in the regulations in this subpart with respect to services performed after 1960, the term “United States” also includes Guam and American Samoa when the term is used in a geographical sense. The term “citizen of the United States” includes a citizen of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands, and, effective January 1, 1961, a citizen of Guam or American Samoa.

[T.D. 6744, 29 FR 8314, July 2, 1964]

Now you have all the proof, reasoning, and evidence needed to establish exactly what is meant by "States of the United States" (Territorial "Confederate" States) versus "States of the Union" (National States).

For the purposes of the Federal Government, they have cozily defined their network of Territorial State-of-State organizations, which are called "Confederate States" as "States of the United States" as opposed to our "States of the Union".

You can now see the pattern of the deceit: actual States (as we think of them) are States of the Union and belong to the Federation of States.

Business organizations doing work for the States are called States of States, like the State of Illinois, or, more generally, Confederate States, which are members of a Confederation (sometimes called "Confederacy").

The actual States, then, are States of the Union, while the Confederate "States" (of States) are States of the United States.

Thus, there are now fifty (50) American States of the Union, and fifty-seven (57) "States of the United States" which we would normally think of as businesses like "the State of Florida" plus the similar administrative "States" of the U.S. Territories and Possessions.

Calling a "State of State" business a "Confederate State" and then shortening that to "State" has been a potent source of confusion for the last 160 years.

It has ultimately led to the idea that a Territorial-level collection of such incorporated State-of-State businesses could function as and be confused with actual physically-defined States, so that the "States of the United States" could be confused with and used to replace the States of the Union.

More British Bunko on steroids.

This is what Mr. Obama was referring to in his famous speech in which he talked about our glorious 57 "States" and everyone perked up their ears and wondered -- 57 States?

He was talking about the "States of the United States" not the States of the Union, and if you take the time you can easily count the seven (7) U.S. Territories and Possessions and add them to the fifty (50) British Territorial State-of-State businesses that have been replacing our American State-of-State businesses on an "emergency basis" since the end of the so-called American Civil War.

In this example, statutory laws and Acts of Legislation purportedly addressed to the "States of the United States" and the foreign citizenry thereof, have been deliberately and deceitfully misapplied to average Americans living in the States of the Union instead.

Both the Municipal IRS and the Internal Revenue Service and all the various Bar Association Members acting as their running dogs, are nothing but British Territorial Privateers engaged in strong arm racketeering under color of law.

Our British and Papist Subcontractors may indeed have the right to tax themselves and their people may choose to act as incorporated persons, and may impersonate themselves as they please, may engage in the foreign and repugnant practices of indentured servitude and slavery, may organize their business operations as they see fit within the confines of their Constitutional limitations --- but they are not allowed to substitute their government or their corporations for our government, and they are not allowed to misaddress or misrepresent or impersonate our people, not allowed to latch onto our assets under False Pretenses, and are not granted any "power" to say one word about our health, our wealth, or our will, are not authorized to declare war or practice mercenary "war" in our names, and have no right to commandeer and use our Title IV Flag or any representation of our flag for purposes of undeclared, mercenary, or otherwise illegal warfare, privateering, or racketeering of any kind, either overtly or under color of law.

We call for an end to this deceit and usurpation by foreign business interests and particularly by the British Monarchs, the Lord Mayor of the Inner City of London, the respective Popes, and the Governments of Great Britain, Westminster, Vatican City and the City of Rome.

It is high time for the entire world to recognize the criminal and deceitful nature of these corporations substituted as governments and also to recognize the role of these Principals and their misuse of "Territorial" entities as instruments to create and enforce a form of repugnant continued colonialism that has been illegally, unlawfully, and immorally applied to The United States, the former Commonwealth, seventeen occupied nations in Western Europe, Japan, and numerous countries in the Middle East and Africa.

We have, in effect, all been suffering under a form of the same malady that wrecked South Africa and India --- a Territorial "Raj" imposed by use of mercenary forces, administered by foreign corporations --- and secretively forced down the throats of the living people and actual owners via constructive fraud and illegal undisclosed, coerced, and unconscionable contracts promoted by members of the corporate bureaucracy and Bar Associations under color of law.

We call upon every country on Earth to "Just say, "No!" and mean it. Every member of our military paid for on our credit, every politician entered into any office associated with us and with our actual government or employed under any Constitutional contract, is hereby fully informed and made liable for this circumstance and these misrepresentations.

They are also made liable for the return of our assets, our credit, and our control of our own facilities and institutions and made responsible for observing the "strictly limited" nature and functions of Maritime Commerce and Admiralty and Administrative Courts in this country.

Members of the Bar Associations are made liable for their complicity in administering, profiting from, and colluding in the impersonation of Americans as British Territorial U.S. Citizens and/or Papist Municipal citizens of the United States.

The British Territorial Maritime Commerce Courts (functioning as UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTS and STATE OF STATE COURTS) have been deliberately misaddressing Americans as "citizens of the United States", while British Territorial Admiralty Courts (functioning as United States District Courts and State of State Courts) have been misaddressing Americans as British Territorial U.S. Citizens. This has led to personage and barratry on a scale that is unimaginable, all executed under color of law.

The same evils have been visited by Britain and Rome on all the other nations that have been similarly defrauded, misled, and mistreated.

These crimes of personage and barratry must stop and the illegal impoundment of living people mischaracterized as "cargo" and the illegal confiscation of their property interests and physical assets under a fusillade of deliberately constructed and falsified Legal Presumptions and equally non-existent or invalidated contracts must also stop.

Unless every member of the Bar Associations worldwide wants to be dispatched and their "temple" in the Inner City of London vaporized as if it never existed, reason should compel their immediate and permanent cessation of these practices, presumptions, and misapplications of so-called "Equity Law".

The Equity in this case, is ours, not the British Monarch's.

We, the actual living people, have had enough of the Bar Associations' practice of personage and barratry, enough of their King's mindless greed and duplicity, enough of the Popes playing patty-cake and profiting from these crimes, enough of the Lord Mayor and his Merry Men, enough of the misdirection of our military and police forces as unknowing mercenaries, enough, enough, enough.

These so-called "corporate governments" backed up by a purloined Raj, need to be liquidated worldwide and all the assets returned to those to whom these assets belong with no further pretenses, registrations, enrollments, or other misrepresentations used as a means to induce peonage, promote enslavement, and defraud people of what is naturally and rightfully theirs.

The securitization of living flesh via the venal pretenses of personage must stop.

The bid of the UN CORPORATION to rule the world using WHO and "public health" as an excuse for the continuance of these evils must also come to an end. There is no excuse for it and nobody is going to tolerate it.

These mechanizations and crimes are done for.

There is only the specific and urgent demand that these practices, presumptions, and "cozy arrangements" come to an end, and that the purloined property be returned, and that amends be made, without further obfuscation, legal pretenses, or delays.

The so-called Global Collateral Accounts were amassed from private fortunes and must be returned to the actual owners and trustees.

Nobody including the U.S. Army, the Bank for International Settlements, the Swiss Union, U.S. Department of the Treasury, IMF, Federal Reserve, any and all "Federal" Agencies -- none of you have any right to breach the trusts and agreements to which you are bound.

To evade your obligations is merely to act as criminals.

Issued by:
Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652

https://annavonreitz.com/

Why Should I Be Baptized? by William Dupley

Five people were baptized in our church a few Sundays ago, including a small girl. I spoke to her father this week, and he said my daughter told me that all of her fear was gone since she was baptized.This week, I was discussing Baptism with a friend of mine. He had ministered in Haiti, and he said it was very common for people to experience deliverance when they were baptized. Deliverance also occurred when people were baptized at a camp meeting that Toronto Airport Vineyard conducted at Staynor camp in 1992.

I remember praying for a lady once at church, and when I laid my hands on her, she fell down to the floor in the form of an idol and went into a trance. I wasn't quite sure what happened, but I figured there had been some power encounter between the Holy Spirit and some spiritual force. I asked her friend who was with this woman if she was a Christian, and she said yes, she was. I asked her if she had been baptized. She said yes. I then spoke to the spiritual force and told it that you have no right to be on this woman because she had identified herself with Christ through the waters of Baptism, and you belong to the old man. I command you to leave and go to the tank, where the Baptism occurred. Immediately, she was delivered and came out of the trance.

Why does this not always happen
I've seen many people baptized, and I rarely see people experience deliverance when they are baptized. I suggest this is because they are not taught what really happens when someone is baptized. Often, Baptism is taught as a symbolic activity. I have heard it said it is the outward sign of an inward commitment, sort of like joining the union and getting the union badge that you put on your coat. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In fact, these statements rob the true power of what Baptism accomplishes in our lives.

Types of Baptism
The Greek word for Baptism is baptízō – properly, "submerge" (Souter); hence, baptize, to immerse (literally, "dip under"). It does not always mean water baptism. It means to be immersed in something.

There are three different types of Baptism mentioned in the New Testament. Each has a different purpose.

1. Baptism into Christ
When we accept Christ as our Saviour and Lord, three things happen
1. We are baptized into Christ. We are immersed in God.
Gal 3:26 You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ
2. Our Spirit becomes one with God's Spirit.
1 Corinthians 6:17 But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in Spirit.
3. We become a new creation.
2 Cor 5:17 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
Jesus commands us to baptize people in Matthew 28:19 20 as part of the process of disciplining people.
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
I don't think Jesus is saying that we just water baptize people in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in this verse. Rather, I think Jesus is saying that we immerse people in the (love of the) Father, (the grace of) Jesus, and (the fellowship of) the Holy Spirit since he is talking about making disciples in this verse. A key part of making disciples is helping them develop an intimate relationship with God.
2. Baptized in the Holy Spirit
When we accept Christ, our Spirit is united with Holy Spirit, but there is an additional experience that Jesus prophesied would happen to us in Acts 1:4-5
4 And while they were gathered together, He commanded them: "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift the Father promised, which you have heard Me discuss. 5 For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit."
This prophecy was fulfilled in Acts 2: 4
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
When we are baptized with Holy Spirit. Our entire body is immersed in the Holy Spirit, and His presence overwhelms us. We feel his presence penetrate our physical being. Just as water soaks us when we are immersed in water, so Holy Spirit soaks our physical being. We also begin to manifest the gifts of Holy Spirit as outlined in I Cor 12

3. Baptism in water
The Book of Acts describes many events where people believed and were immediately baptized. They were immersed in water. In fact, it seemed that in most cases, a person was baptized immediately upon repentance and acceptance of Christ. There is one particularly fascinating example. There was an Ethiopian eunuch who was responsible for the entire treasury of Ethiopia. He had come to Jerusalem to worship and was going back to Ethiopia. An angel directed Philip to catch up with his caravan, and he heard him reading the book of Isaiah. Philip asked him if he understood what he was reading. He said how can I unless someone guides me. They had a further discussion, and Philip began to tell him the good news about Jesus.

The Ethiopian made the most remarkable request after hearing what Philip had to say.

Acts 8:36 Now, as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, "See, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?"

38 So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him.
Now, I want you to capture what happened here. This was a very wealthy man, and he would have had an entourage. He would have been dressed in very expensive clothes, yet it was so important for him to be baptized that he was prepared to get out of his chariot, go down to a muddy hole filled with water, and be baptized. I suggest there was something very compelling that Philip told him about the benefit of being baptized.

Jesus was Baptized in Water
Jesus felt it was so important to be baptized in water that he was baptized in water himself.
Matt 3: 13 At that time Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. 14 But John tried to prevent Him, saying, "I need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me?" 15 "Let it be so now," Jesus replied. "It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness in this way." Then John permitted Him. 16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him.

Jesus never sinned, yet He felt it was important to do this, and the question has to be asked: why did He do this? Jesus said, "It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness." I suggest He did this to demonstrate what has to be in our hearts when we are baptized. He humbled himself and publicly declared that His entire life was committed to God and that He was completely dedicating His life to living according to God's will and commands.

A leader leads by example. I think Jesus did this to be an example to all of us.

What happens when you are baptized in water
I do not believe that Baptism is just some symbolic or ritualistic activity. Jesus had no use for those things. I do not wish to minimize the symbolic aspect of Baptism. Baptism is a powerful and symbolic visual aid, a prophetic act demonstrating outwardly what the Lord has done and is doing inwardly. It speaks loudly to the fact that this person needs a bath to be cleansed and needs a burial of the old man to rise up in the newness of life in Christ. But to say it is just symbolic negates the spiritual transformative aspect of Baptism.
Romans chapter 6 :3-7 describes Baptism in great detail and what really happens when we are baptized.

3 Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through Baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, a that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin

Let's start by looking at what happens when we are baptized:
1. We are baptized into Christ Jesus.
2. We were baptized into his death.
3. We were buried with him.

Now let's look at the results, what we can expect as a result of being baptized
1. We may walk in the newness of life (The newness of life is the life that God intended for us to live)
2. We will be resurrected.
3. Our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with (rendered powerless)
4. We will no longer be slaves to sin

Let's look at some other results of being baptized
1. He will forgive your sins. Acts 2:38
2. You will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit Acts 2:38
3. He will wash away your sins. Acts 22:16
4. Whoever believes in him and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. Mark 16:16. This Scripture is not saying that you have to be baptized to receive salvation. Salvation is by grace. Whether we are baptized or not, we will be saved if we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. However, the word for "saved" used here is the Greek word "sozo". The word "sozo" means "safely rescued, delivered out of danger in to safely used principally of God rescuing believers from the penalty and power of sin into his provisions of safety." It is clear from this verse that a real spiritual transaction occurs when we are baptized that delivers us from the results of our sins.

5. You are baptized into the body of Christ (the family of God) (1 Cor. 12:13). In other words, it is also an initiation into the fraternity of Jesus.

These actions and results don't sound very symbolic to me. It clearly sounds like a dramatic spiritual transaction occurs.

Who is buried, who is crucified?
Romans 6:6 states
"Knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away
The King James bible reads
6 Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

We read here that it is our old self or old man that is buried. Now, you may wonder who this is. I suggest that your old self or old man is the spiritual being you were before you were born again and became a new creation. Our old man has committed a lot of sins and has also inherited a lot of curses from the generations that have gone before.

When we are baptized, the old man is buried. We choose to bury him. He's put to death. It's an execution, and anything related to the old man goes with it.

Sins give rights to demonic forces. The spiritual world is very legalistic. Negative Spiritual forces cannot attack us or touch us unless we give them legal rights to do that. Prov 26:2 clearly states this.

Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow, So a curse without cause shall not alight.

However, when we do sin, or our parents sin, it gives rights for a curse to come upon us. When we are baptized, we put to death the old man and the rights that are associated with the old man are made null and void. The spiritual forces that are associated with those rights must leave. They have no legal right to be there. That is why Baptism is so important. This is how Baptism saves us. The act of Baptism rescues and delivers us out of danger. It delivers us from the penalty and power of sin into Our Heavenly Father's provisions of safety".

Deliverance is the children's bread.
I have experienced three seasons of deliverance emphasis in the church. There was a great emphasis on deliverance in the late 1970s, it came around again in the 1990s, and it's starting again in the 2020s. The challenge with deliverance is that people often become consumed with looking for demons. Only one-third of Jesus's ministry was focused on deliverance. If you are spending more than one-third of your ministry time on deliverance, I suggest you readjust your focus. However, ignoring deliverance is also a mistake.

Jesus called deliverance the children's bread in Matthew 15. A Canaanite woman had asked him to deliver her demon-possessed daughter. His response was unusual. He said
24 He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." 25 The woman came and knelt before Him. "Lord, help me!" she said. 26 But Jesus replied, "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs." 27 "Yes, Lord," she said, "even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table." 28 "O woman," Jesus answered, "your faith is great! Let it be done for you as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that very hour.
Jesus called deliverance the children's bread. We are the children of God, and deliverance is our bread, too. It's something that we can expect.

First John 3:1
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!

How do you acquire the results of Baptism?

The first step in Baptism is repentance.
Acts 2:38 Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Repent means "to change one's mind or purpose". When we repent, we choose to change how we think, what we do, and how we behave, from the way the world thinks to the way God thinks. We start by asking God's forgiveness for our sins. I recommend that this be done thoroughly and not just as a general statement. We commit sins individually. We should ask forgiveness and repent the same way. Remember, our sins provide the spiritual world with legal rights over us, so the more thorough we are with our repentance, the more legal rights are broken. Now, I don't believe you need to repent of every sin you did. I don't think we can remember them all, but I think we can repent for sins in categories.

The Sozo ministry has a good structure for examining ourselves and structuring our repentance. There are four categories they would suggest that you consider when deciding to get serious in the area of repentance. These categories are Sexual sin, Occult, Hatred, and fear. I recommend that you take the time to do this well and not be in a hurry. I also suggest you ask God's forgiveness for generational sins as well. Often, the sins of our ancestors can affect us because they have given rights to the spiritual world to affect their descendants.

The second step is a public declaration.
When we are baptized, we publicly declare our allegiance to Jesus Christ, identify ourselves with the cross of Christ, and are baptized into Christ. We acknowledge that our old man is about to be crucified and buried in the tank, and because we have repented of his sins, the spiritual forces related to the old man must stay in the tank and have no right to be on you.

Now, if you did not understand this when you were baptized and thought that you were just making an outward sign of an inward commitment, you can correct that situation today. There are no time issues with our Heavenly Father. He lives outside of time. I suggest that you can make that declaration today, even though you may have been baptized 50 years ago.

If you would like to acquire all the benefits of your Baptism, I encourage you to do this prayer with me.

The Prayer
Heavenly Father, I now understand that being baptized is much more than just making an outward sign of an inward commitment, and I want to acquire all the benefits that Jesus purchased for me on the cross.

1. I ask forgiveness for my sins and the sins of my ancestors. (Be specific, and don't be in a hurry.) I repent for doing these things, and as an act of my will, I change my mind and choose to live according to your will and commandments. I ask you for your help to do this.
2. I believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross, rose from the dead on the third day, and is sitting with his Heavenly Father today.
3. I received his gift of forgiveness that was paid by the atonement he made for my sins on the cross.
4. I declare that Jesus Christ is my Savior and Lord.
5. I choose to follow him in the waters of Baptism and identify with His cross by the act of Baptism, and by doing so, I choose to bury my old man and everything that is associated with him. These include all my sins, all my ancestors' sins, and all curses that were related to those sins.
6. I rebuke every spiritual force that's associated with my sins and my ancestors' sins.
7. In Jesus' name, I command these spiritual forces to go to the baptismal tank and never bother me again because you have no rights on me.

Congratulations, you have now dealt with any spiritual forces related to your old man, and you have the authority to tell any temptation that would try to drag you back into those sins to leave you because you have repented, are baptized in Christ, and they have no rights on you.

You will now find it easier to walk in the newness of life. Jesus is committed to helping you be transformed. This process is called sanctification. You have put off the old man, and your mind will be renewed.

Eph 4:22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

It does take your whole life to become what you are in Christ, but choosing to be baptized is the best way to start the journey.
I bless you all. I hope this has been helpful. Please write to me if you experience a change in your life as a result of this prayer. I would love to know about it.

This blog is originally published here:https://thesecretplace.ca/blogs/f/why-should-i-be-baptized

Exploring the Various Types of Mutual Funds: A Comprehensive Guide

Mutual funds are a popular investment vehicle that pools money from multiple investors to invest in a diverse range of securities such as stocks, bonds, and other assets. One of the key advantages of mutual funds is their ability to offer diversification and professional management to investors with varying risk appetites and investment goals. In this comprehensive guide, we'll delve into the different types of mutual funds available in the market, each catering to specific investment objectives and preferences.

1. Equity Funds:
Equity funds invest primarily in stocks or equities, offering investors the potential for long-term capital appreciation. These funds may focus on specific market segments such as large-cap, mid-cap, or small-cap stocks, or they may follow a thematic approach by investing in sectors like technology, healthcare, or energy. Equity funds tend to be more volatile compared to other types of mutual funds due to the inherent risks associated with stock market fluctuations.

2. Fixed-Income Funds:
Fixed-income funds, also known as bond funds, invest in a portfolio of bonds issued by governments, corporations, or other entities. These funds aim to provide investors with regular income through interest payments while preserving capital. Fixed-income funds vary in terms of the types of bonds they hold, including government bonds, corporate bonds, municipal bonds, and high-yield bonds. They are generally considered less risky than equity funds but may still be subject to interest rate and credit risk.

3. Balanced Funds:
Balanced funds, also referred to as hybrid funds, invest in a mix of stocks and bonds to achieve a balanced portfolio. These funds aim to provide both capital appreciation and income generation while managing overall portfolio risk. Balanced funds typically maintain a predetermined asset allocation between equities and fixed-income securities, with variations based on the fund manager's investment strategy and market conditions.

4. Money Market Funds:
Money market funds invest in short-term, low-risk securities such as Treasury bills, certificates of deposit (CDs), and commercial paper. These funds aim to preserve capital and provide investors with liquidity and stability. Money market funds are often used as a cash management tool or as a temporary parking place for funds awaiting investment in other asset classes. While they offer lower returns compared to equity or fixed-income funds, they are considered relatively safe investments.

5. Specialty Funds:
Specialty funds focus on specific sectors, themes, or investment strategies that may not be covered by traditional mutual funds. Examples of specialty funds include sector funds (e.g., technology, healthcare), thematic funds (e.g., renewable energy, artificial intelligence), and alternative investment funds (e.g., real estate, commodities). Specialty funds may offer investors the opportunity to capitalize on niche market trends or unique investment opportunities but may also carry higher risk and volatility.

6. Index Funds:
Index funds seek to replicate the performance of a specific market index, such as the S&P 500 or the FTSE 100, by holding a portfolio of securities that closely mirrors the index's composition. These funds aim to provide investors with returns that closely track the overall market while offering lower fees compared to actively managed funds. Index funds are popular among investors seeking broad market exposure and passive investment strategies.

7. Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs):
While technically not mutual funds, ETFs share many similarities with mutual funds in terms of structure and investment approach. ETFs are traded on stock exchanges like individual stocks and offer investors exposure to a wide range of asset classes, sectors, and investment strategies. Like index funds, ETFs can provide low-cost, diversified investment options and are suitable for both short-term trading and long-term investing.

In conclusion, the world of mutual funds offers a diverse array of investment options tailored to meet the varying needs and preferences of investors. Whether you're seeking growth, income, capital preservation, or a combination of these objectives, there's likely a mutual fund that aligns with your investment goals. By understanding the different types of mutual funds and their characteristics, investors can make informed decisions to build a well-rounded investment portfolio suited to their individual financial circumstances and aspirations.

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Biden Awards Samsung $6.4 Billion To Build Computer Chip Plant In Central Texas


(NationalUSNews.com) — On Monday, April 15, the U.S. Commerce Department announced they would be awarding up to $6.4 billion in grants to a South Korean-based company, Samsung Electronics, to develop computer chip manufacturing and research facilities in Texas. The support comes from the CHIPS and Science Act, signed into law on August 9, 2022, which is intended to bring semiconductor manufacturing back to the U.S. and reduce reliance on overseas production.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says the project will put the nation on track to hit the goal of producing 20% of the world’s leading-edge chips in the United States by 2030. Over 17,000 construction jobs and 4,500 manufacturing jobs are expected to be generated by the plan. The first of two factories to be constructed is expected to be operational by 2026, with the second one following next year. Samsung will also be investing $40 billion in the project as well as claiming investment tax credits from the U.S. Treasury Department to further fund the ambitious project.