Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Not even thirteen years ago, Argentina defaulted on its debt for the second time in the modern age. The result was what The Economist called “an economic crisis beyond compare”. And the “corralito” – basically a financial playpen of sorts – was the long-lasting result that saw bank accounts frozen and […]
Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia I just checked out of the Ritz-Carlton here in Kuala Lumpur. For the money, it is the best luxury hotel on the planet, in my opinion. In addition to pool attendants who sneak up on you to offer fresh melon skewers, your American Express Platinum card (or just asking nicely, in […]
Dateline: Hong Kong As soon as I got off the plane, it hit me. No, it wasn’t the incredible humidity here, even though Hong Kong makes Manila look like the Sahara desert with 32 degree (86 degrees Fahrenheit) temperatures and 85% humidity. I flew in from the Philippines yesterday – just as the latest tropical storm […]
Dateline: Makati, Philippines Paul Krugman may be wrong on just about everything, but when he says “Fiat money is backed by men with guns”, we can find a point on which to agree. His point here is a perfect metaphor for the state of world currencies. In the latest development of dying fiat currency wars, […]
Dateline: An undisclosed location in the USSA What can history tell us about the future of America? The world has been splattered with all sorts of economic collapses, in every industry, at big and small scales. So I wanted to take a day and review five of the biggest economic collapses and draw some parallels. […]
Dateline: Toronto, Canada Ever since Canada shut down its Immigrant Investor Program several months ago, I’ve been predicting a dip in Canadian real estate prices. Especially where I’ll be in Vancouver this weekend. You can’t shun capital and expect to grow your economy. However, the situation is even more dire south of the border in The […]
Dateline: Prizren, Kosovo When asked the secret to becoming a millionaire, Virgin founder Richard Branson once quipped, “start as a billionaire and buy an airline”. Buying government bonds in 2014 is a great way to do exactly the equivalent, making your money vanish into the greedy paws of your favorite congressman. Here in Kosovo, corruption […]
Most investments come with expenses, but if you choose carefully, an annual tax doesn’t have to be an expense for your real estate investment. A number of countries around the world don’t charge property tax at all, including some attractive destinations with additional tax perks. In this guide, we’ll examine countries with no property tax […]
Dateline: Budapest, Hungary Having been all over western and central Europe – save Slovenia and the microstate of San Marino – I’m convinced after just one day that Budapest is easily the most beautiful city in Europe. One individual I met with here suggested Budapest had the cheapest real estate of any capital city in […]
When you compare two famous European cities, Bratislava and nearby Vienna, in many ways, the two cities, the world’s closest two national capitals, are worlds apart. Bratislava has been the butt of jokes for years, while Vienna is cited as one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. However, while we put Bratislava in the […]
We’ve talked about the little-discussed early American hyperinflation (and the current threats of dollar collapse). We’ve talked about Argentina’s maddening capital controls and their effect on sky-high inflation rates. Neither of those countries, however, can hold a candle to some of the worst cases of hyperinflation in modern history. You’ve seen photos of Germans sweeping worthless […]
Dateline: Warsaw, Poland How do you know the economy is bad? When you can’t use hardbodies to sell sex to coeds. More on that in a moment… The mainstream media loves oh-so-much to talk about the American “economic recovery” underway in the United States. After all, Barack Obama has gotten “unemployment rates” down to below […]
Estonia may not be the first country you think about in terms of free market economies, yet the country has a lot to offer entrepreneurs. Best of all, it’s still on the rise. Sitting on board the two-and-a-half-hour ferry ride from the least Eastern European-feeling Baltic state to Finland, you realise just how connected the […]
Dateline: Sigulda, Latvia If you’re a property owner or real estate agent in Vancouver or Toronto, you just got screwed. We discussed earlier this week why I prefer investing in emerging market real estate. Even though emerging markets may seem to offer less security, the reality is that a country with Big Government is the […]
Dateline: San Diego, California Near the height of the Roman Empire, consul Lucius Cassius was considered one of the most honest and wise judges in the land. He had a trademark question that is still referenced to this day: “Cui bono?”; literally translated “as a benefit to whom?” Cui bono is a Latin adage used […]
Dateline: León, Nicaragua Granada is a bustling university town with a charming town square and an ongoing rush of tourists. After Nicaraguan independence, the university elites of Granada and the lesser-preserved León fought over which city should be the newly sovereign nation’s capital. León, dominated by the liberal elites, almost became the capital; but the […]
Dateline: Chicago, United States Last summer, I shared a somewhat tongue-in-cheek perspective on how grocery stores in Vietnam are stealing from the populace thanks to the worthless Vietnamese dong. The Vietnam government has done such a poor job of managing their currency – or managing it at all – that there is no way stores […]
Dateline: San Francisco, California, United States Economic isolation is the kiss of death for an economy. Sometimes, it happens slowly. Other times, it happens all at once. But isolating oneself from the rest of the world economically is never a good thing. I’m here in the United States for the next few weeks wrapping up […]
Dateline: Taipei, Taiwan I’m a fan of gold and other ways of protecting my hard-earned capital from the “easing” policies of the Fed and others. In fact, several hours of our upcoming Passport to Freedom event in Las Vegas are about how to store gold offshore, the best types of gold to own, and how […]
Dateline: Singapore Westerners have been taught from day one that high taxes and government inefficiency are simply the “price we pay for civilization”. If you believe that, allow me to share a story you may be familiar with… Human beings have been running for sport for centuries. Ever since the legend of Greek messenger Pheidippides […]
Dateline: Singapore While Singapore isn’t exactly my cup of tea as a permanent residence, it’s always a pleasure arriving here for business. I flew to Singapore from Indonesia this morning. The government-owned Jakarta airport, not satisfied with their own government’s visa-on-arrival fee, has made sure to gouge you for another “departure fee” – payable in […]
Dateline: Jakarta, Indonesia The cafe scene here in Jakarta is quite something. Like many cities in Asia, some of the best casual and upscale dining is done in shopping malls. As a westerner, it’s easy to scoff at this as I did – until I had one of the best meals of my life at […]
Dateline: Jakarta, Indonesia I wasn’t sure what to expect from Jakarta. Indonesia, which east-to-west spans about as much of the Indian Ocean as Australia, is an intriguing and even somewhat mysterious place. While China and Vietnam and Myanmar get all of the press from the financial media, Indonesia has been somewhat left alone. Yet the […]
Milton Friedman said that inflation is “always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon”. Throughout history, plenty of countries have seen inflation rates so high that hyperinflation occurred. However, we wanted to examine the countries which currently suffer from the highest inflation rate. With runaway money printing happening around the world, these countries really take the cake. […]
https://env-nomadcapitalistcom-staging.kinsta.cloud/finance/quantitative-easing-americas-newest-export/Reporting from: Bangkok, Thailand The Thai government’s 38% debt-to-GDP ratio looks like drastic fiscal prudence compared to the nearly 110% in the United States. For Southeast Asia, Thailand is quite the a rabid spender. Places like Cambodia have been decreasing, rather than increasing, their debt levels. In just three hours, you could be in Hong […]
Reporting from: Bangkok, Thailand I must have read a dozen travel blogs talking about the “scam” at the Cambodia-Thailand border yesterday. The Thai town of Poipet, in particular, has practically become an insider’s code word for border scams in the backpacking world. Fortunately, I escaped the twelve-hour overland trek from Siem Reap to Bangkok and […]
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 will the taxi drivers understand where I want to go? How will I get my laundry done? How will I shop at […]
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 sovereign nation that had won ever war a major superpower threw at them. No, it wasn’t going in and bombing the OTHER sovereign nation […]
Reporting from: Macau Take Las Vegas and multiply it by three. Here on a peninsula in the South China Sea, Macau is the world’s largest gambling mecca with revenues that put Vegas to shame. Anyone who’s ever been to Las Vegas will notice striking similarities in the resorts that have cropped up around this second […]
Dateline: Dallas, United States I checked into the KLM Club at DFW Airport to summarize some thoughts from this past weekend. After spending the weekend with some great thought leaders in liberty at the Liberty Mastermind Symposium this weekend, I decided to voluntarily get bumped off of my scheduled flight out of town. It seems […]
Imagine that, fifty-eight years from now, a loaf of bread cost $30,000. The promise of this kind of hyperinflation would be enough for you to cry for your future kin who would be saddled with such a burden. In 276 AD, the wheels were coming off of the Roman Empire and religious persecution was increasing. […]
During my years working in the marketing industry, I must have heard one particular joke about a proverbial dog food company a dozen times. The joke goes that a large pet food company had just created a new brand of dog food. The CEO, eager to spread the word, called the marketing director into his […]
To many people around the world, the concept of geographically diversifying your assets is – no pun intended – a foreign concept. While many investors are comfortable with the idea of having some money in stocks and some in bonds, few talk about geographical diversity. Even those who understand the disintegration of fiat currency often […]
I’m often asked why I would want to pack up my things and fly half way around the world to visit and live in developing countries like some of the ones I’ve reported from recently, and will be reporting from in the months to come. A lot of people in my home country can’t comprehend […]
Iron Man 3 is a runaway hit. The comic book action movie had the second biggest debut of any movie ever. People can’t get enough of the war fantasy concept that pits good guys versus bad. In just one opening weekend, it brought in more than $175 million. Now, I could talk about how the […]
Can you name the three United States banknotes without a President on them? If only two – the $10 and $100 notes – comes to mind, you’re not alone. The third one is of a bygone era where liberty still reigned. Long ago, the United States printed banknotes in denominations as high as $100,000. While […]
Yesterday, I told you how politicians have – surprise – officially run out of ideas when they start using grade school tactics against their opponents. That includes against people like me who tell you that you have options outside of their little web. They do this because, despite all the bluster to the contrary, all […]
Reporting from: Tokyo, Japan Japan has a rich history. More than a millennium of history has shaped its unique culture today. Centuries ago, it enjoyed the distinct advantage of its island geography to keep out invaders, a distinct advantage over the Chinese who were constantly fighting off invading hordes. But that insulation left the underworked […]
Reporting from: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia It wasn’t until only 160 years ago that this capital city of Malaysia was founded. Unlike many cities in the region, it was only a muddy estuary – the source of its name in Malay – until tin was discovered here in the 1850s. The city went through quite a […]
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. Among the most notable lines of Imelda’s bio to this day is the extravagance surrounding her 2,700 pairs of shoes. Yet Imelda’s shoe buying frenzy can teach bloated […]
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 innovative companies. Yet for decades, it has been perennially mired in red ink and doom and gloom. Their net worth is $127 billion below water. Frankly, it […]
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 capita, nor is it the richest country in the world. So where you can do to fit in if you have a big suitcase […]
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 of any all liberty and civility. For years, the US government has been waging a War on Drugs. It’s been working pretty well. Depending on how you […]
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 challenging the authority of its falling dollar and circumvented the thievery of its central bank? Everyone sane? I thought so. Not content with imposing over-reaching money […]
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 who continue to deficit spend their way into the poorhouse. And as we know, you as their citizen are the one who will pay the […]
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 bank devaluing its currency. His main concern was reserved for savers, who he said history has shown will be wiped out by the endless money supply. Throughout […]
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 become poisoned and leopards to lose their spots. Yet they ostensibly want to allow their government-censored unemployment numbers, the ones that only tell half the story, to […]
“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 you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.” -Ayn Rand Hugo Chavez is dead. I purposely wanted to wait a day or two to […]
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, planes will fall from the sky, Dark Ages diseases will return to plague us again, and roads will crumble as the scourge of “sequestration” comes […]
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 but bad news there. There’s no way you should invest in Spain. As if 26% unemployment wasn’t enough, it’s expected to increase this year. Youth unemployment […]
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