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April 12, 2010 Medellin, Colombia As tectonic plates slowly drift over millions of years, an occasional fissure opens up in the earth’s surface. We call them volcanoes, and they provide a means for the earth to release some of the intense pressure that builds up over time. Volcanic eruptions are typically harmless… the
April 8, 2010 Panama City, Panama Do you remember that really awkward phase we all went through as adolescents? Growth spurts, voice changes, menstruation, and yes, pimples– in the end, while we all came out of it more mature and grown up, there was a difficult and sometimes painful transition period in which
March 29, 2010 Mexico City, Mexico I was reading some US government propaganda disguised as educational literature the other day, something from the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve… it’s the sort of corrupt dogma is typically used to instill blind and unquestioning faith in a defunct money system. Laughably, I noted the following
March 10, 2010 Pattaya, Thailand Yesterday I apparently declared a premature end to major combat operations against the virus that has invaded my body. Maybe it was just the celebratory Mexican food I ate last night to commemorate the end of my 4-day sickness, but I now seem to be experiencing my own
March 4, 2010 Pattaya, Thailand It wasn’t too long ago that there was a concrete dividing line down the center of Europe with large scale nukes pointed at both ends. It wasn’t long before that when two sides were battling it out in Normandy, or in the trenches before that. Throughout the last
March 1, 2010 Pattaya, Thailand There’s something not right with the world. Yes, I’m dismayed by this weekend’s earthquake in Chile (I really adore the country), and am quite disgusted by the US government’s extension of the PATRIOT Act. Fortunately, I know the Chileans will pull through just fine, and the US government
February 26, 2010 Bangkok, Thailand It’s “Judgment Day” in Thailand. I wrote about this on Monday– a Thai high court will rule today on the disposition of ousted former PM Thaksin Shinawatra’s frozen assets valued at several billion dollars. According to the mainstream media, the entire country is supposed to erupt in chaotic
February 16, 2010 Bangkok, Thailand The popular press has been bandying a lot of cute acronyms for the ‘sick’ European countries. I have seen PIIGS, STUPIDs, and DUHs… and while the individual circumstances of each country are different, they all have one thing in common– Their obligations far exceed their assets, and they
February 11, 2010 Bangkok, Thailand Years ago, when I was a bright-eyed lieutenant anxious to defend the world against evil and tyranny, the government decided to ship me off to become an intelligence officer. I remember a lot of the classroom training, learning about the enemy’s order of battle and maneuver capabilities. Ironically,
February 9, 2010 Bangkok, Thailand Money is just a tool… nothing more. It’s not the only tool, but it’s certainly a useful one that can be leveraged to acquire more freedom; we can trade money for time, money for health, money for experience, and money for assets that safeguard ourselves and our families.
January 12, 2010 Estepona, Spain There is really a great deal of information out there about offshore corporate structures… frankly it’s mind numbing. Do a search for “offshore corporation” and you will undoubtedly return over a million websites promising you fast incorporation in Panama or the BVI, as well as a host of
January 6, 2010 Reporting from: Estepona, Spain I’m sitting now in lovely Estepona, Spain– a coastal town on the Mediterranean that experienced a massive property boom over the last decade. The community I’m in is anchored by a five-star Ritz Carlton golf resort, and surrounded on all sides by the mountains or the
I receive a lot of subscriber questions, and while I cannot answer them all, I wanted to specifically address three of them that key in on recurring themes in this community– second citizenship, investing, international opportunities, corporate structures, banking, and gold/silver storage. 1) Paul asks– “I was wondering what your 1st choice would
Somewhere after paying over $100 for a tank of gas, $35 for a haircut, and $15 for a fast food sandwich, it dawned on me last week. The euro is terribly overpriced against the dollar. I wrote about this extensively last week, arguing that, because of a litany of taxes and fees, and
I spent a couple of days this week in a fast BMW with Matt, my friend and business partner. We had a meeting in southern Spain yesterday with a key figure in the world of second passports, and we raced at speeds up to 250 km/h so that we could make the meeting
