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...
