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Dateline: Kuala Lumpur International Airport On a freezing night in 1773, the Sons of Liberty were "running wild". The British empire, determined to keep those in the colonies...
Protect Your Assets with Offshore Banks (A US Citizen’s Guide)
For US citizens, choosing the best offshore bank can be a complex but equally important financial task. And if you’re a successful investor or entrepreneur, you may be cautious...
Why you should be investing in Bali real estate
Dateline: Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia Travel and tourism have been the key to Indonesia’s economic growth. Indonesia is gaining in popularity with tourists and Bali is the number...
Investing in Oman: the perfect frontier market for entrepreneurs?
Dateline: Munich, Germany I’ve spent much of the last week here in Munich meeting with some of the best minds in this city’s business sector, including several young...
How sovereign debt and pension obligations doom Japan’s economy
Dateline: Bangkok, Thailand There are several countries that have reached the point of no return - ones with excessive debt, incompetent leadership, poor fundamentals, a complete...
Thanks to Obamacare, Getting a Raise Could Cost You $12,000
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How to Buy and Sell Gold with Low to No Spread
Dateline: Singapore In the internet age, buying gold is easy. Especially if you live in the United States, United Kingdom, or many European countries, gold dealers not only sell...
The 7 success secrets of emerging world millionaires
Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia In the last several years, I’ve traveled to nearly 60 countries, and actually spent some real time in most of them. (Being a perpetual traveler...
How capital controls and a currency collapse bankrupted this country
Last updated: March 26, 2017 Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Imagine the cost of everything you buy instantly going up by 30%. Overnight. I want that to sink in. Sure, a lot of...
Portugal’s Retirement Account Confiscation: Lessons Learned
Imagine waking up to find that the retirement savings you’ve diligently built over decades are suddenly at risk - not from market downturns, but from factors far beyond your...
How governments steal land and stop foreign investment
Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia For years, land sales from the white minority to the black majority in South Africa have been governed by a "willing buyer, willing seller"...
Tips for crisis investing: How to profit from panic
It’s the very basis for stock trading and has been repeated time and again for many decades, but it’s amazing how few people actually seem to understand the advice to buy low and...
Political Payback: How the US Abuses Power to Punish Business
In a classic Hans Christian Andersen tale, two swindlers convince a vain emperor that they will create the most majestic suit of clothing for him. So majestic, they promise, that...
The Best Places to Buy Gold and Silver in Europe… VAT Free
Frankfurt has one of the best gold coin stores in Europe. It's not just that the place is in central Frankfurt (ironically not that far from the ECB) or that walking into it...
How to fix the US economy with tourism (they won’t listen)
Dateline: Panama City, Panama Panama is one of the easiest countries on earth for Americans to visit. In fact, the visa-free access here is so generous that you can basically...
Things Singapore understands… but the West doesn’t
Dateline: Singapore Back in the year 1850, Singapore was a malaria-infested island at the southern tip of the British Straits Settlements. Chinese gangs ruled the city while drug...
Five reasons Panama is one of the freest countries in the world
Dateline: Panama City, Panama The flight down from Cancun was a comfortable reminder that airline service outside of the United States and Europe is the real "first world"...
The African agricultural investment boom
Dateline: Invercargill, New Zealand Participating in the African agricultural investment boom is not as easy as investing in gold or oil, as it presents the significant...
How to use the world’s tallest skyscrapers to find your safe haven
Dateline: Mexico City, Mexico Spend one day walking around the Reforma district of Mexico City and you'll wonder what the heck the US news media has been squawking about all of...
