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"...
How to Get Brazilian Citizenship by Marriage or Residence by Investment
Picture this: a gateway to the rhythmic beats of samba, the rich, sprawling interior of the Amazon and an open invitation to roam across the lush landscapes of South America. No,...
The world’s 5 most overvalued real estate markets
Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Look outside the large windows in my home here in Kuala Lumpur and you'll see all kinds of developments going up. To be honest, spending almost...
How to Survive the Death of Petrodollars and a Reserve Currency
Dateline: Scottsdale, United States Investors profit by identifying long term trends before the crowd does. In this current world, one is either a contrarian or a victim. If one...
Offshore Gold Storage: How to Avoid Gold Confiscation
OFFSHORE GOLD STORAGEProtect your hard assets, avoid gold confiscation, and diversify your investment portfolio.Not all that long ago the US dollar, like most currencies, was...
Running an online business just got a lot harder for tax reasons
Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Running an online business is a great way to generate location independent income; money you can earn from anywhere on earth. That makes online...
The birthday card that reaffirmed my faith in emerging markets investing
Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia I learned an interesting business lesson over the weekend. To celebrate my thirtieth birthday, I took a few of our Nomad Capitalist team members...
The Negative Effects of 1984 Inflation 30 Years Later Are…
Dateline: George Town, Malaysia Earlier this year, I spent three days in the United States, a place I now avoid, even if only to transfer at an airport. What got me there was too...
Why western property values are set to collapse (just like the currency)
Dateline: Singapore Singapore's open policy to immigrants has made it one of the wealthiest countries and freest economies in the world. Millions have flocked to this island...
The Three Words I Used to Build my Businesses and Fortune
Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Imagine three words being the difference between success and failure. It was several years ago that I realized myself what those three words...
How to get an offshore merchant account
Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Having a location independent business is an important part of living a lifestyle based on my five magic words: going where you're treated...
Citizenship by Marriage: 14 Passports to Get by Marrying a Foreigner
Like it or not, it’s often assumed that when someone from an emerging country marries a US person – or Westerner in general – part of the motivation is that they're seeking...
How to Renew a US Passport
A commonly cited anecdote is the idea that ‘history is written by the victors’ – those who lose the battle also lose their right to have their side heard in the history books....
Does the government find your financial activity suspicious?
Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The concept of robbing from the rich to feed the poor has long been popularized by the popular English folklore figure Robin Hood. Accompanied by...
Good news: government spying to be limited to 15 years
Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia In the late eighteenth century, the Jacobin Club was the most violent and most radical political movement leading to the French Revolution. In...
1/8″ shows how freedom of movement is dead (It’s ironic. And bad for money.)
Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia In 1961, East Germany began construction on a nearly 100-mile long wall around the city of Berlin. The Berlin Wall is, to this day, among the...
Five reasons I’m investing in Cambodian real estate
Dateline: Phnom Penh, Cambodia It's been eleven months to the date since I last departed Cambodia's capital city of Phnom Penh. To say that this city, and this country, is no...
Russia vs. the petrodollar: the latest reserve currency meltdown
Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Twenty-five centuries ago, traders throughout civilization were increasingly using a single method to do business with. The silver drachma,...
Why economic turmoil is like the five stages of grief
Dateline: Macau Casino magnate Steve Wynn promised investors it won't happen again. Specifically, his Las Vegas casinos having much of any impact at all on his stock's...