Just like American politicans crying wolf, politicians around have world have a favorite word when the going gets tough. No, it's not "just" or "ask" like the northern Europeans...
Cyprus Bank Account Holders Are Now Waiting… Thanks, EU
Have you ever noticed while on board a flight that delays in pushing back from the gate or reaching the runway are always fifteen minutes? I'm convinced that fifteen to twenty...
Bank Account Confiscation in Cyprus
The European Union has decided - in its infinite wisdom - to rob the personal bank accounts of Cyprus citizens to pay for its bailout of the country. Cypriots got a rude...
Top 5: Developed countries with Budget Deficits: Read Now
We recently shared five countries running budget surpluses. While a new list of sovereign players are emerging with their fiscal house in order, there is still the list of those...
Quantitative easing: Hello, Age of Easy Money
If you think the Age of Easy Money is here, you haven't seen anything yet. Investor extraordinaire Jim Rogers recently decried the growing recklessness of nearly every central...
How US unemployment is killing the country in two ways
The Obama administration is in an unenviable position. For one thing, they've been crowing that the sequester would cost nearly one million jobs along with causing water to...
Hugo Chavez’s Legacy: This is what The Enemy Looks Like
"It stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there’s someone being served. The man who speaks to...
Why a Cyprus Bank Confiscation May Be Coming | Read More
On the eastern mediterranean island nation of Cyprus, bad loans to Greece have left the place in desperate need of a bail-out. The debt-to-GDP ratio is hovering at 85% while...
The government that cried wolf on sovereign debt
Aristotle was to have said that people lie so "that when they speak truth they are not believed". American politicians and the White House are going around proclaiming that soon,...
Your money has no Fifth Amendment protections in the US
When they think you owe them money, the government isn't as much about freedom as you'd like to think. Savvy Nomad Capitalists know that "the land of the free" has become little...
How Argentina money became totally worthless
Argentine president Cristina Kirchner is on a desperate campaign to cover up the gravity of her failures. It's how Argentina money has become totally worthless. Increasingly...
Why not to invest in Spain (when a country disrespects capital)
There's something reassuring about the honesty of capital. When a country loses all respect for that system, bad things are bound to happen. Take Spain, for example. It's nothing...
How population trends will shape emerging and frontier markets
For me, the vastly changing world economy is so obvious. That's why we focus on global megatrends that explain just how the future will play out. This century will see a powerful...
How Iran is Using Bitcoin to Fight Hyperinflation
Technology always wins the race against less agile governments. Such is the case in Iran, where peer-to-peer crypto e-currency Bitcoin is enabling locals to conduct world...
How Big Government robbed Turks and Caicos
There's a mutiny in the Parliament of Turks and Caicos, the Caribbean island chain which owes allegiance to the UK as a British Overseas Territory. Specifically, the United...
The Five Most Underestimated Economies
To those in the west, the world's emerging and newly developed economies are often incorrectly seen as "third world", "corrupt" or "backward". Many people just don't understand...
Obama should learn a lesson from Singapore on income inequality
Who could have predicted that last night's State of the Union address by President Obama would be a rallying cry for more of the same populist dogma that seems to plague the west...
Citizenship-based taxation: Just the US and a war-torn country
Reporting from: Los Angeles, California I love economic competitiveness among governments. That's why I had always wanted to speak with someone from the only place on earth that...
Big brother will not protect your retirement funds
History is a great teacher. And if there is one thing you should have learned, desperate, bankrupt governments will always look for an easy and political palatable way out. One...
The wait for capital controls is over
The day you always knew coming has now arrived. Capital controls are here. If you're a reader of this site, chances are you knew that. Western governments and the U.S. in...
