Portfolio and asset diversification is always a prudent investment decision, but relying solely on securities or “mom & pop” financial instruments aren’t always a great idea. There are plenty of other valuable commodities you can invest in, especially considering the inverse economic relationships between securities and commodities. Gold, Silver and Teak are some of the […]
Continue readingInternational Man: Back in the year 2000, a five-year CD would pay out about 6%. If you had $1 million, you could generate $60,000 per year with very little risk. Fast forward to today. The average CD now pays less than 1%. That means you would now need at least $6,000,000 in retirement savings to […]
Continue readingThroughout the world, the media televise weekly reports on the protests in Hong Kong. Developments have remained highly visible, courtesy of regular demonstrations that take place like clockwork, every weekend in the business district of the city. And these are not small demonstrations. A crowd of up to two million has gathered on at least […]
Continue readingTeak is a type of hardwood that is commonly used for construction purposes throughout South East Asia and South America. In recent years, the commodity has sustained high prices in global markets and is expected to continue growing as time passes. In addition to this, many South American countries have begun to leverage their citizenship […]
Continue readingHaving multiple passports is one of the fundamental tenets of the Flag Theory. As you get multiple passports and nationalities, you slowly shed your identity as a national of one nation and become a global citizen with potentially unlimited freedom to move around. This physical freedom is only one aspect of acquiring multiple nationalities, there’s […]
Continue readingLongtime readers will remember the first time I put cannabis investing on your radar. That was over two years ago. At the time, there were only a couple dozen publicly traded cannabis companies. Today, there are over 300. New ones seem to be popping up each week. Others are merely adding “cannabis” or cannabis-related words […]
Continue readingThe rise of the internet has completely changed the way we live. High-speed internet has ushered in an age of information unparalleled by any other time in human history. Commercial internet applications and rapid information transmissions have enabled us to make better decisions, get things done faster and made the world so much more efficient. […]
Continue readingInternational Man: There is a growing homeless crisis in liberal West Coast cities, including San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, and many others. People living on the street are overrunning these cities. Residents must deal with human feces, syringes, disease, and filth every day. In some areas, it’s worse than the dirtiest slums of Brazil, Kenya, and […]
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Dateline: Bogota, Colombia Since the American Civil War, US citizens living abroad have had to deal with citizenship-based taxation. Whereas every other country in the world uses residential, territorial or even zero tax systems to determine taxable income, US citizens are obligated to keep up on their taxes no matter where their money comes from… […]
Continue readingIn light of recent political events, people are much more wary of offshore business than they were in the past. I think this confusion arises from a misunderstanding about the nature of legality and policy, especially with respect to what it means for individual financial liberty. There’s nothing wrong with setting up an offshore company […]
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