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Are you “out of touch”?

July 26, 2010 Krakow, Poland By the late summer of 1939, Hitler’s forces had absorbed Austria and Czechoslovakia into his growing empire, and Germany’s military was massed at the Polish border clearly preparing for invasion. In an astonishing display of perhaps the greatest complacency in the history of the modern world, however, Polish

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Questions: Swiss Annuities, Vanuatu, Retirement, German Citizenship

July 23, 2010 Krakow, Poland Krakow is always beautiful in the summertime. It has one of the most vibrant city-centers in Europe… and as the economy is fairly healthy here in Poland, there are always a lot of people out in the streets enjoying themselves. I’ll tell you more about Krakow next week;

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What the race to the bottom looks like

July 22, 2010 Krakow, Poland If you pay attention to currencies much, you’ve probably been following the euro closely over the last few months.  The euro hit its 24-month high in US dollar terms on November 30, 2009, right around $1.50. It’s been on a steady slide ever since. Earlier this year, serious

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3 Great Locations for Outsourcing Your Work

July 21, 2010 Krakow, Poland I was on the phone with a major bank last night. As usual, I had to navigate their automated phone system hitting ‘zero’ until my finger turned blue… I was finally forwarded to an offshore call center where the representative was more keen to follow the script than

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This is what they think of us…

July 20, 2010 Krakow, Poland Apparently, all of us little people just need to sit down and keep quiet… so sayeth Kartik Athreya, senior economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. In a recent paper entitled “Economics is Hard. Don’t Let Bloggers Tell You Otherwise,” Mr. Athreya chastised the world of bloggers,

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To be, or not to be planting flags in Denmark

July 19, 2010 Copenhagen, Denmark The Kingdom of Denmark is one of those places like Ghana or Guatemala… everyone’s heard of it, but no one really knows anything about it aside from what they read in Hamlet. I’m here to tell you that the country definitely has some merit, and it may be

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Questions: Body scanners, transporting gold

July 16, 2010 Copenhagen, Denmark I’m back in Copenhagen today in the middle of a heat wave! This city definitely has a lot to offer potential expats, and I’m going to publish a short article about it on Monday assuming I don’t dismember myself during tomorrow’s parkour training. On to this week’s questions:

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Case Study: The Maltese Expat

July 15, 2010 Bath, England I’m presently writing this missive on the UK’s Great Western Railway somewhere between Bath and London’s Paddington station. I’m flying back to Copenhagen in a bit to meet up with my business partner, but I wanted to take a few minutes and tell you about an interesting woman

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Going global– what to do right now

July 14, 2010 Bath, England For beginners, planting multiple flags can seem like a complex topic. How does one even begin selecting jurisdictions? How do you actually go about selecting the right offshore bank, or foreign real estate agent? What are the best passport opportunities available? Until now, there hasn’t been a ‘quick

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They’ll even go back in time to steal your money…

July 13, 2010 Bath, England It’s no secret that the government– any government– has nearly unlimited authority to do whatever they want, whenever they want. They can bend the rules, spin reality, and use their national constitutions like a roll of cheap, single-ply toilet paper. Lately, governments have been unafraid to increase the

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The most expensive city in the world…

July 12, 2010 Bath, England The most expensive city in the world is not in the North America, or Europe, or even the Middle East… it’s in Africa. According to an annual cost of living survey that is sponsored by international HR consulting firm Mercer, the most expensive city in the world is

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Questions: all about second passports

July 9, 2010 London, England Today’s letter is a bit early– I’m running out soon to meet up with several subscribers at the Clarendon lounge in Notting Hill. Feel free to drop by if you’re in the area tonight between 6pm and 7pm. On to this week’s questions, which are ironically all about

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What 5.7 tons of cocaine means to you

July 6, 2010 London, England It appears that Wachovia Bank has been a bad little boy and not following the rules. Recent reports from a US Justice Department investigation suggest that the bank didn’t follow anti-money laundering requirements from 2004 to 2007. During that time, over $378.4 billion of Mexican drug money passed

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Planting flags in Germany

July 7, 2010 Berlin, Germany As I’m in Berlin for some quick business, I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about planting flags in Germany; perhaps today is an appropriate day to do so as the Deutschland national football team is taking on Spain in tonight’s World Cup semi-final… and there

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