Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Even before I made my first dollar, I had an anti-tax streak in me. I found it incredibly unfair that the government could swoop into your million-dollar idea and steal a major portion from it. And they would keep coming year after year demanding tribute. If indeed you have a million-dollar-a-year […]
Continue readingThe United States emerged from World War II as the top banana. Having entered the war late, it not only was in the enviable position of expanding as a manufacturing nation to supply the allies with war materials, it also insisted on being paid in gold for whatever it shipped. (Pretty nice deal.) At the […]
Continue readingAs if the world wasn’t already going through enough turbulence—Russia and Saudi Arabia have decided to get into what seems to be so far the most pointless oil price war at the moment. Anyone who’s followed the oil industry over the past couple of months would be well aware that oil demand was already crashing […]
Continue readingThe Worst Recession in Global History — How To Protect Your Wealth When the World Comes to a Crash By now, I think all of us should have come to terms with the fact that we’re standing at the door of one of the biggest economic crises of our time. With the economic shutdowns, unemployment […]
Continue readingEventually, the COVID 19 pandemic will be contained. And global markets and economies will recover. Belize is at this time one of only 14 countries in the world that is free of COVID-19. The experience of having lived through this challenging period will leave us with a reinforced and perhaps, a reinvented understanding of what […]
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Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia At the risk of sounding like a teenager who just dyed their hair a shade of fluorescent green, living as an expat in emerging markets “is not a phase”. I have been living overseas in emerging markets for more than a decade now, and I’m unlikely to change my views on […]
Continue readingMost families do not want to have to enter probate after the passing of a loved one because the trauma from the loss is bad enough. To define probate, it happens when the property of your loved one must pass through the court system before it gets distributed. This punishes those left behind, which is […]
Continue reading“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.” Maya Angelou, from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings An engineer is trained through university and in the workforce to apply failure modes and safety factors into their designs. It doesn’t matter if it’s a structure, a circuit, a chemical, or […]
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Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Cards on the table, I’m a big city guy. I enjoy the hustle and bustle of capital cities. But as I grow older, I’m beginning to appreciate the benefits of something quieter as well. I’ve gone from loving New York to thinking Kuala Lumpur is a better alternative as it has […]
Continue readingAs Covid-19 becomes an increasingly grave threat to countries around the world, it’s impacting people in more ways than just making them sick. There are major economic and geopolitical struggles that everyone faces as unemployment in the US reaches historical highs and countries place travel restrictions to and from their jurisdictions. There’s nothing legally wrong […]
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