Where I’ll Plant My Money In 2019 And Watch It Grow No matter how big or small your real estate investment portfolio, it should include agriculture. We live in a world with an exploding population and dwindling arable land. We’re looking at more than 9 billion people on this planet by the middle of this [...]
What's Really Going On In Paris? We missed the first two weekends of protests in Paris. The weekend they started, Kathleen and I were in Ireland visiting friends. The next weekend we were in the States for Thanksgiving. The third protest Saturday, we were here in the city, but, despite our apartment being just a [...]
The World Is Ending… Where Should You Go? A reader wrote this week to ask where I’d recommend as the ideal destination in a doomsday scenario. Where would qualify as the best place to be in an end-of-the-world situation? The reader specifically referenced a shutdown of global trade. I would want a place where enough [...]
My Personal Bug-Out Plan As the year rounds the corner to its end, Brexit is back in the news. Theresa May battles on. Meantime, the Chinese keep trying to figure out Trump’s next move, and actions by the Saudi government that would have started a world war 100 years ago are still playing out… and, [...]
Up To 24% Per Year For Me… And A Legacy Of Income For My Kids, Too My approach to investing in real estate has evolved since my first real estate purchase when I was 27 years old. For that first investment, I operated according to the principles of OPM—other people’s money. Buying a highly leveraged [...]
A River Of Liquid Bullion Two or three times a year, Kathleen and I plan outings with small groups of friends from around the world. We identify a special travel adventure... and then we invite the folks we most enjoy spending time with to join us if their schedules allow. In that spirit, we've extended [...]
Trade Wars, Bureaucrats, And Brexit Some residents of the Carolinas found themselves out of options this month. Some Carolinians weren’t able—for various reasons—to heed the mandatory hurricane evacuation announcements. Eventually, they had to be rescued. Very unfortunate situation… that reminded me why I’ve worked so hard to organize my life the way that I have. [...]
Asia's Most Impressive Turnaround Tale Of Success Singapore sits on the path of ancient shipping lanes... which is why it has long been an attractive destination, first, among Asian kingdoms and then, starting with the Portuguese, Europeans. Eventually, the British ended up with the island as part of their empire and they didn't give it [...]
A Warning About Travel Warnings It's one of the most frequent comments I get in my feedback from readers. Every month or so, someone writes in to chastise me for suggesting people look at diversifying their lives in places like Mexico or Colombia. "Don't you know that [insert country name] is full of danger? Haven't [...]
Because Lief is busy hosting this week’s Summit, he has asked Conference Director Valentine Fouché to share some real-life success stories of past conference attendees. Read on… I meet thousands of our Live and Invest Overseas readers at conferences we host each year. And I love hearing about their live-and-invest-overseas adventures post-conference. Past attendee Gary […]
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