Reporting from: Manila, Philippines It's been almost three decades since Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos fled as the Yellow Revolution ousted them from power here in the Philippines....
California and other unsafe government pension disasters
Reporting from: San Francisco, California California is an interesting place. It is home to some of the world’s most beautiful coastlines and hosts some of the world’s most...
Top 5 countries with the most millionaires per capita
Which country has the most millionaires per capita? If you said the United States, you'd be wrong. In fact, the United States doesn't appear on the list of most millionaires per...
When the taxes stop, so do your freedoms
If politicians had their way, your only freedoms would stem from their generosity and your willingness to comply with their latest schemes. Their benevolence should be the source...
The Coming US Real Estate Bubble: Housing Bubble Collapse
Reporting from: Phoenix, Arizona Sometimes it's easy to understand why we keep making the same mistakes over and over again. And why there is another US real estate bubble...
Bitcoin Shows that America Hates Economic Freedom
Who would have ever thought that the United States government would want to shut down economic freedom? That they'd want to make life difficult for an informal payment system...
How governments use safe words to steal your bank account
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...
