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Something is afoot in Panama that I want to tell you about. Several banks, including Banvivienda and HSBC, have recently announced that they will discontinue renting safety deposit boxes. Customers who currently rent boxes will have until the end of the year to vacate their belongings. Furthermore, some banks that formerly used to
Earlier today, amid much pomp and fanfare, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) opened the sealed bids for the canal expansion project. Audience members looked on eagerly like it was the Academy Award for best picture… The lowest bidder? A consortium led by Italy’s Impregilo, ringing in for a cool $3.12 billion. Wait, wait,
Today I confessed my sins to Uncle Sam. No, I’m not talking about anything sinister. But in a mad dash through a US stopover today, I dropped US Treasury form TDF-90 in the mail: “Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts.” It went something like this: “Forgive me uncle for I have sinned.
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
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
I’m back in Panama today… I’ve never been so happy to see Panamanian soil before; the trip to Cuba, which I reported on yesterday, was fantastic– but the lack of reliable phone and internet connectivity was problematic now that I have a daily deadline to meet. I spend a lot of time in
