Remember When America Was Proud Of Its Entrepreneurs? Did you know that, in 2014, the U.S. government officially became the country's biggest thief? To the tune of more than US$5 billion dollars. Take a look... Maybe the police are simply doing a better job. Nah, that's not it... The Department of Justice recently released an [...]
How Could Panama’s Residency And Citizenship Programs Be Better? A friend in Panama who is connected to the country’s new president is soliciting ideas for improving the country’s immigration programs. The goal is to attract higher net worth business people. His question for me was: What would make Panama more competitive? That is, looking around [...]
My Newest Ag Recommendation Earns You 16% Per Year One sunny summer afternoon in 2012 I had the most expensive lunch of my life. Kathleen, the kids, and I were taking a driving tour through Italy, Austria, and Croatia. The Croatia leg was to check on the old stone house we own in Istria. We [...]
Why I'm Doubling Down On Brazil (And This Is Your Last Chance To Do The Same) For the past few years, I've been working systematically to consolidate my existing real estate holdings... while, at the same time, expanding my portfolio in a new direction. I'm selling properties that no longer fit into my long-term plans. [...]
I don’t usually pay attention to exchange rates on a daily basis. However, being in Europe for the last month, I’ve been watching the U.S. dollar rate versus the euro. The euro has dropped from US$1.13 to US$1.115 since I arrived about four weeks ago. The difference of a penny-and-a-half—or a bit less than 1.5%—isn’t […]
What’s The Problem With Portugal? Ireland, Spain, France, and Italy might all make it into the answers of a Family Feud survey about where people like to live and retire in Europe. Portugal, on the other hand, probably wouldn't. Yet I would include Portugal among my top three options for anyone looking to make a [...]
Why I’m Tempted To Cash Out Of This Investment (And What I Intend To Do With The Money Instead) As they say, it can be better to be lucky than to be smart. Best case, of course, is when you can be both. That’s what happened in 2015 when I bought an apartment in Lagos, [...]
I’m Thinking My Next Investment In Portugal Will Be… Driving from Lisbon to Lagos yesterday afternoon, as I’ve done several times in the past when coming to the Algarve for our annual Live and Invest in Portugal Conference, I was struck, again, by how beautiful the countryside is in this part of this country. Softly rolling [...]
How The IRS Finally Got Me To Cry Uncle OK. I give up. I started working on my U.S. tax returns last week. Ordinarily, that'd have allowed me plenty of time to finalize everything in time to file on the 15th. But these are not ordinary times, dear fellow offshore American. The changes as represented [...]
After 20 Years, Ecuador’s Finally Got My Attention Ecuador has come a long way since my first visit in 1999. On my earliest visits and for some time thereafter, I used the term "Fourth World" to describe the country's infrastructure. The Quito airport was conveniently located in the middle of the city but a nightmarish [...]
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