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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
Billionaire Peter Thiel is acquiring his fourth passport. Born in Germany, Thiel moved with his family to the US and became a US citizen as a child. More recently, he acquired citizenship in New Zealand after investing and donating heavily to charities in the country. Now, Thiel is obtaining a passport from the
In the early 6th century BC, roughly 2,600 years ago during the Zhou Dynasty of ancient China, a young scholar named Li Er was hired to work as a government scribe in the imperial capital of Chengzhou. Though Li had no formal schooling, he quickly became renowned for his keen intellect. And in
By the summer of 1497, Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain were presiding over a rapidly growing empire. Christopher Columbus had already claimed most of the Caribbean islands on their behalf. Plus Pope Julius II had awarded virtually all of the western hemisphere to Spain in the infamous Treaty of Tordesillas. Spain was quickly
At 1,350 miles, Florida has the most coastline of any state in the lower 48 United States. Add year round warmth, and it is no wonder that Florida nets about 80,000 retirees moving to the state yearly, based on census data. But today Florida tops the list of states where real estate prices
