Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia It's no secret that I'm a fan of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In fact, I like it so much that I dubbed it the third most livable city in booming...
The Best Offshore Havens for Bank Secrecy
Last updated November 14, 2020 Bank secrecy has long been a target of international groups opposed to offshore tax havens. The argument goes that if governments don’t know who...
Are high interest rates on emerging market currencies worth it?
Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Jim Rickards recently said that with the central bankers' madness infecting the Australian dollar, there were only three strong, stable...
Buying Foreign Real Estate to Get Airbnb Rent Yields
Reporting from: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia A few months ago, I met with several expat entrepreneurs in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Among all of the business talk, they threw out one...
Top 5: Countries by highest inflation rate
Milton Friedman said that inflation is "always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon". Throughout history, plenty of countries have seen inflation rates so high that...
Should you invest in non-convertible currencies?
Reporting from: Nong Khai, Thailand - en route to Myanmar I have to admit, I screwed up yesterday. In my rush to get out my last meeting in Vientiane, Laos, and to the airport in...
Investing in Laos: the last of Asia’s true frontier markets?
Dateline: Vientiane, Laos It took Thai Airways one simple error to screw up my one-hour flight yesterday. Nevertheless, I arrived in Udon Thani, Thailand - just a short hop from...
Is it too late to buy real estate in Thailand?
Reporting from: Bangkok, Thailand Property is all the rage here in Bangkok. In the last fifteen years or so, the country has seen a major recession, the bird flu and a coup. And,...
How Hard Is It to Open a Singapore Bank Account Now?
Reporting from: Bangkok, Thailand Remember when you were a little kid and you'd go to your friends' birthday party to eat cake and play party games? Even at seven years old, I...
When bond markets have their fill of Obama and quantitative easing
Reporting from: Bangkok, Thailand After my excellent, Obamacare-sidestepping experience at the hospital yesterday, I had to go back today for a few additional, more in-depth...
The government shutdown and Bitcoin regulation
Reporting from: Bangkok, Thailand They say the most aggressive party in any negotiation is the most desperate. By that logic, the United States government has gotten amazingly...
What Will happen if the US government goes bankrupt?
https://nomadcapitalist.com/finance/quantitative-easing-americas-newest-export/Reporting from: Bangkok, Thailand The Thai government's 38% debt-to-GDP ratio looks like drastic...
From tumbleweeds to economic miracle: the next economic success stories
Reporting from: Bangkok, Thailand Sukhumvit is one of the busiest areas of Bangkok. Full of tourists, overpriced bars, and international chains from Domino's to 7-Eleven at every...
When money laundering laws go too far
Reporting from: Bangkok, Thailand I must have read a dozen travel blogs talking about the "scam" at the Cambodia-Thailand border yesterday. The Thai town of Poipet, in...
Laws of motion and the history of offshore tax havens
Reporting from: Phnom Penh, Cambodia In 1687, English mathematician Isaac Newton released his latest, and perhaps most widely known, findings. The Laws of Motion proposed - among...
Overregulation, crony capitalism, and the death of the free market
Reporting from: Phnom Penh, Cambodia One of my favorite stories about starting a business overseas - in a frontier market, in this instance - is from Chris Tell. It goes like...
Is Cambodia the perfect frontier market to invest in?
Reporting from: Phnom Penh, Cambodia The twenty-minute tuk-tuk ride to Phnom Penh's north end was littered with new restaurants. Every time I'd tilt my head to look somewhere...
The growing impact of emerging economies consumers
Reporting from: Phnom Penh, Cambodia I got to talking with one of my waiters the other day, and discussed what life is like here. Service staff can make as little as $80 a month,...
Why Chinese millionaires are internationalizing their assets
Reporting from: Phnom Penh, Cambodia It's an open secret in many parts of the world that the leaders at the top, and their families, have offshore bank accounts to protect...
Cambodia’s microfinance institutions: small banks, big interest rates
Reporting from: Phnom Penh, Cambodia Let's discuss the cost of freedom. No, I'm not talking about political speak for sending soldiers to war to kill people in other sovereign...
