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Lithuania: There will be blood

Yesterday I wrote to you about Lithuania and all the great things it has to offer– it’s inexpensive, has second citizenship, a low flat tax, and beautiful women.  These are all great reasons to visit from time to time (and obtain a passport if you are so fortunate), but today I want to

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Lithuania: the good

About a month ago I was attending a private, invitation-only meeting with some of the finest unconventional minds in finance. We gathered for three days at a luxurious oceanside resort on the Maryland coast to have an open exchange of ideas, debate our philosophies, and play poker ’til dawn.  Lobo Tigre, editor of

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Argentina is still doomed

Argentina is still doomed. If you don’t know Argentine politics well, I’ll give you a quick history: the country has vast natural resource wealth and was once one of the richest in the world. It has been serially run by a group of incompetents ever since the Perons first came to power after

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Anarchists in Helsinki

This always happens to me. Whether in Buenos Aires, Beirut, Rome, Bangkok, Zurich, or now Helsinki, I always seem to get caught up in some sort of protest.  To be honest, I love protests… I think it’s great when people finally have enough of the system and demonstrate their unwillingness to continue going

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Panama’s Achilles Heel

We have a really intelligent group here. All the comments from yesterday, plus the dozens of private emails I received, underscore one of the big reasons why I do this in the first place– to build a community for like-minded, sharp, successful people who are lions instead of sheep… bold winners who think

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More from Panama

I’ve always loved the women here. There I said it. I’m only human. To be honest, this is one of the great things about living free overseas, and I don’t just mean romance; when I’m outside of the United States, I have access to a completely different caliber of people– both expats and

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This Trillionaire is FLAT Broke…

William “Bud” Post is flat broke. He has dealt with lawsuits, jail time, bankruptcy, and now lives on food stamps. It seems strange to think that he used to be a multi-millionaire… but it’s true. In 1988 he won $16.2 million from the Pennsylvania lottery (valued at $30 million in today’s increasingly worthless

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