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Billionaire Peter Thiel is acquiring his fourth passport. Born in Germany, Thiel moved with his family to the US and became a US citizen as a child. More recently, he acquired citizenship in New Zealand after investing and donating heavily to charities in the country. Now, Thiel is obtaining a passport from the
In the early 6th century BC, roughly 2,600 years ago during the Zhou Dynasty of ancient China, a young scholar named Li Er was hired to work as a government scribe in the imperial capital of Chengzhou. Though Li had no formal schooling, he quickly became renowned for his keen intellect. And in
By the summer of 1497, Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain were presiding over a rapidly growing empire. Christopher Columbus had already claimed most of the Caribbean islands on their behalf. Plus Pope Julius II had awarded virtually all of the western hemisphere to Spain in the infamous Treaty of Tordesillas. Spain was quickly
At 1,350 miles, Florida has the most coastline of any state in the lower 48 United States. Add year round warmth, and it is no wonder that Florida nets about 80,000 retirees moving to the state yearly, based on census data. But today Florida tops the list of states where real estate prices
This week I had the incredible joy of welcoming my son into the world. He’s healthy, happy, and at nearly 9 pounds, quite strong. As soon as we found out she was pregnant, my wife and I made a very deliberate decision to have the baby in Cancun, Mexico. We live in Puerto
The principle that your home is your castle is enshrined in Western culture. It signals that an individual has monarch-like rights to his or her own private property. But stop paying property tax and you’ll soon feel more like a serf on the lord’s land. And when they come to take your home,
Last Friday, September 30th 2022 was the close of the Fiscal Year for the US federal government. If you’re not familiar with the term, the ‘Fiscal Year’ refers to the government’s official accounting period. It starts on October 1st and ends the following September 30th. And everything from the federal budget to the
As we’ve learned from recent history, deals as good as the Greek Golden Visa don’t tend to stick around for long. And sure enough, the program’s pricing will double to €500K in January 2023. Today, we take a closer look at the program, the recently announced changes, as well as why you may
It all started innocently enough. It was July 2, 1997, and the Prime Minister of Thailand had just announced that their currency– the Thai baht– would no longer be pegged to the US dollar. Big deal, right? It doesn’t seem like a boring press conference about an emerging market currency in Southeast Asia
Robert Mugabe could have gone down in history with the same esteem and grandeur as Nelson Mandela. Like Mandela, Mugabe was imprisoned for several years for being a prominent anti-colonialist leader in Zimbabwe— then called Rhodesia. Upon release from prison, and with a little help from the international community, Mugabe became Prime Minister
Let’s not mince words: stagflation is here. Let’s also not overreact: the world is not coming to an end. And, like all things, there are both risks and rewards that will arise. First, what do we know? Historically high inflation is obvious. Plus many major economies around the world are already sputtering. Germany’s
Amazon’s Ring video doorbells likely form the largest private surveillance network the world has ever known. Millions of Americans allow Ring surveillance cameras to record and store video and audio of all activity at their front door. Ring maintains access to users’ unencrypted videos, and has admitted in the past that at least
In the year 210 AD, after two decades of constant warfare, Roman Emperor Septimius Severus was finally satisfied: he had conquered nearly the entire known western world. This was the year that the Roman Empire reached its maximum territory– approximately 5 million square kilometers, stretching from Morocco to Georgia, from southern Scotland to
On September 3, 1783, after nearly a year of excruciating back-and-forth negotiations, all sides had finally gathered together in Paris to sign a historic peace agreement. It was a pretty important peace deal. Because the Treaty of Paris, as it is now known, is what formally ended the American Revolution, and when Great
In March of 421 BC, after years of escalating conflict, Athens and Sparta finally decided to bury the hatchet and coexist peacefully together in the Mediterranean. The two powers had been at odds for decades. Athens had ballooned into a regional empire, and Sparta itself was a rising power. The two sides came
