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Starting today I’m going to try something that I haven’t been able to accomplish in more than twenty years: take two solid weeks off to spend time with my family. The last time I had the chance to do this was back in 1999 when I was in my final year at West
On the fifth of April in the year 1853, a diplomat from the United Kingdom with the most quintessentially British name — Stratford Canning — arrived by boat to Constantinople and immediately took an emergency meeting with Sultan Abdulmejid of the Ottoman Empire. After decades of relative peace, Europe was once again on the brink
On the morning of June 20, 1783, the Continental Congress of the United States was just starting its daily session at Independence Hall in Philadelphia when the building was suddenly mobbed by hundreds of angry people. It turned out the protesters were soldiers who had fought in the American Revolution. And they wanted
There’s a lot of hope out there right now that inflation has peaked, and will be gradually heading lower. And it’s great to have hope. After all, no one can say with certainty exactly what’s going to happen, and when. So realistically anything is possible. But there’s are plenty of reasons to conclude
On the 17th of September in the year 1665, the three-year old Charles II became King of Spain. And the odds were stacked heavily against him. To start off, Charles was the unfortunate result of inbreeding; Charles’s mother was also his first cousin, in that Charles’s father was his mother’s uncle. Let that
My trip from Cancún to Puerto Rico on Monday was a smooth journey, which is fortunate given that I was traveling with my extended family in tow, including two babies, plus my wife’s family from Ukraine. We had managed to get them out of Ukraine several weeks ago and into Mexico, where we
Several months ago my wife and I traveled to Cancún, Mexico for a very specific reason: we wanted our son to be born here. This was a no-brainer decision. Our daughter was born here in Cancún last year, and the experience was so great that we knew we wanted to repeat it. Now
In April of 1155 AD, after a successful invasion of northern Italy in which his army vanquished city after city, the legendary ruler Frederick Barbarossa received yet another crown upon his head. Barbarossa was already King of Burgundy, King of Germany, AND Holy Roman Emperor. But on top of all of those titles,
[Editor’s note: This article was written by one of our team members, Joe Jarvis.] Walking into a hospital sounds about as much fun to me as being mugged in an alley. And if I were to go to a US hospital, I suspect the outcome to my wallet would be about the same
In the year 1542, after the deaths of her husband and brother-in-law, Gracia Mendes was finally left with sole control of her family’s trading business. And in almost no time she turned it into one of the most powerful enterprises in all of Europe. Mendes was a unicorn. At the time it was
“I can’t believe this place is so nice!” That’s what we kept hearing over and over again this past weekend in Mexico City, where we held a private event for our Total Access members. Both the event, and the city, were absolutely phenomenal. We held the event at the JW Marriott hotel in
Inflation is undoubtedly one of the biggest stories of our time. It’s a story of abject failure — of how the ‘experts’ who have been entrusted to pull the giant levers of the economy were asleep at the wheel. The ‘experts’ failed to anticipate how their irresponsible spree of spending and monetary expansion
It’s finally here. Today’s the day. More than 35,000 people have begun descending on the picturesque Egyptian resort town of Sharm El Sheikh to participate in the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP27. Or as I prefer to call it, the International Hypocrisy and Ignorance Conference. The absurdity starts with
In the early spring of the year 1492, Lorenzo de’ Medici had just arrived to his family’s opulent villa in the hills nearby Florence when he began to experience severe stomach pains. His pain quickly grew worse, and the finest physicians were summoned to heal him; Lorenzo was reportedly given a number of
Could you imagine yourself owning a quiet countryside home in an area of southern Europe with a low cost of living? What if living there legally allowed you to pay NO income taxes for the next ten years? And you could do it all for €300,000 or less (currently about $294,500 USD)… Something
