Dateline: Belgrade, Serbia By all counts, 2020 has been an interesting year. If a global pandemic and economic shutdowns were not enough, many governments have taken to...
8 Most Livable Places in Southeast Asia in 2025
Southeast Asia is often one of the first places people try when they start their nomadic lifestyle. It’s cheap, it’s warm, it’s easy to get to and it’s a lot of fun. But people...
Investing Overseas: 13 Countries That Require a Foreign Business Partner
Dateline: Merida, Mexico While in Laos several years ago, a contact of mine there informed me of the socialist government’s tendency to get involved in certain investments within...
The 5 Most Underrated Countries for Expat Living
Dateline: Kotor, Montenegro We’ve talked before about the various ways to live as Nomad Capitalist. It’s all about living where you want, but there are also different styles and...
How to invest in Asia: Emerging market investment strategies
Dateline: Tbilisi, Georgia One thing I’ve learned over the years since I left the US to explore the world is that there is no end to the opportunities for investment and business...
Want to discover the next unicorn? Do business in Southeast Asia
Dateline: Mexico City, Mexico The model that many expat entrepreneurs and digital nomads have followed has been to move to Southeast Asia, enjoy the low costs of living and...
The World’s Most Capitalist Countries
This article discusses how what we term ‘traditional Western capitalism’ has changed. It argues that capitalism no longer exists in its true form in any Western country, and...
An overview of ASEAN and investing in Southeast Asia
Dateline: Hanoi, Vietnam Let's get back to basics today. While Nomad Capitalist has covered a lot of opportunities and investments here in Southeast Asia, I figured it would be...
Reverse geoarbitrage in frontier markets: how I made a 15X return in one day
Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Granted, the ten-fold return would have to prove scalable to mean much. But you'll never hear me complaining about turning $5 into $100. Yes, for...
Expat entrepreneurs and venture capital in Vietnam
Reporting from: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Like most entrepreneurs, I still remember exiting my first business. I got what was, at the time, a lot of money for me. While I...
Are white people and expats in Asia really worshipped?
Reporting from: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam I spent Sunday night excitedly watching a discussion unfold on Facebook. The only thing missing was popcorn. (Microwaves aren't so...
Is “transparency” overrated? Is political corruption good?
Reporting from: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam There’s a notion in the western world that “transparency” - a word largely co-opted by western governments to prove their superiority to...
How I was robbed at the grocery store… by Vietnam currency
Reporting from: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam A lot of people I talk to ask about the struggles of handling everyday tasks in a foreign land, where a foreign language is spoken. How...
The free market, not government, created this recycling program
Reporting from: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam It was a long day of interviews, meeting new contacts, and visiting with expat entrepreneurs here in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday. After...
Banking in Vietnam Dong: Fiat Currency Russian Roulette
Reporting from: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam I became an instant millionaire the other day. It wasn’t a particularly momentous occasion. Nor can I remember exactly where I was when...
Keynesian economics would hate Vietnam’s savings rate
Reporting from: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, US President George W. Bush had a stroke of genius. No, it wasn't going in and bombing a...
Geoarbitrage and the ultimate productivity hacks
Reporting from: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Notorious American industrialist J. Paul Getty once said, "I would rather benefit from 1% of the efforts of 100 people that from 100% of...
Thank You for Smoking: A Vietnam Smoking Ban No One Follows
Reporting from: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam This past Saturday night, the scene was dizzying. The taxi driver here in Ho Chi Minh City didn’t know where the relaxed, chill “Skybar”...
How cheap is the cost of living in Vietnam for expats?
Reporting from: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam It must have been my lucky day. But I'm not a thief, so I left empty-handed. Walking down one of the main streets in Ho Chi Minh City's...
The Best Places in the World for Custom Suits
Last updated September 16, 2020 Dateline: Hoi An, Vietnam There are a few rules I try to live by. One of them is to be well-dressed and presentable, even if it has gone out of...
