Bar Stool Economics
[You may have seen this before, but even so, it is worth a revisit as we head into the Obama years…]
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go [...]

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Now that Barack Hussein Obama has been elected President, it’s B.O. for everyone. Just as Democrats disrespectfully referred to George W. Bush as “Dubya”, I shall heretofore refer to your new President as Hussein.
If you are one of the minority in the United States who actually pays taxes and is not a net recipient of [...]

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The May 2008 edition of Casey Research’s Without Borders went live today and I devoured it almost immediately.
This month’s issue spelled out the goods on yet another high profit potential locale for those interested in international living, retiring overseas or the adventurous expatriate. They also had some important updates on popular countries such as Argentina [...]

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I just listened to an interview by Al Korelin of the Korelin Economics Report with guest Peter Grandich.
Al and Peter talked about where to invest right now. They discussed Jim Rogers answer to the same question recently and Rogers answer was “Food & Water”. Naturally, I think this is in addition to other commodities as [...]

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People snicker at me in person, Lord knows what they say behind my back, when I mention Doug Casey’s suggestion that things could get bad here in the United States. Doug thinks those who can afford it should find a “crib” outside the United States just in case things get bad enough here that you [...]

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February Issue is best yet
I’ve been reading the latest issue of Casey Without Borders, edited by Simon Black and Fitzroy McLean. Wow, what a great issue.
I can’t give away everything, but let me hit some highlights:

The same kind of labor problems prompting a city in California to be the first ever to file bankruptcy [...]

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Everyone and their uncle are talking about Panama, Argentina, Thailand and other exotic locales as the next safe haven for smarter investing and better living. Few, however, look towards Eastern Europe – maybe because in the past Eastern Bloc countries were not considered “sexy.” But as you’ll learn from Without Borders editors Fitz and Simon, [...]

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The January 2008 edition of Without Borders Without Borders from Casey Research has just been released.
I won’t give it away, but just tease a bit.
This month’s highlighted locale is not necessarily a place for expatriates to domicile, but more a business location for a rather non-modal type of establishment - say, an internet business? For [...]

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I just received these photos of the beautiful wine country surrounding the home sites at La Estancia de Cafayate in Argentina and I thought I would pass them along.
This is exactly the type of living that is pursued in Casey Without Borders newsletters.

Looks mighty inviting, especially when it’s 15 degrees outside in January where I [...]

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I saw this article on Yahoo! today about people retiring young so I had to read it.
Most of these people really didn’t have that much money; mostly less than US$500,000 or so. So how can they retire in their 30’s or 40’s?
Easy, if you keep your spending down. Easier said than done, right?
Well some of [...]

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