In the wake of the election result you’re probably feeling one of two ways about life in the U.S. I say think long-term and beyond home borders. Whatever your world view, a Plan B always makes sense. But that doesn’t mean turning your back on the U.S. I certainly haven’t. Heck, I own a home [...]
This week, a page turned in the U.S. history books… Whether you think it went forward, backward, want to frame it, or throw it in the fire, doesn’t really matter. It is what it is. Following on from Trump’s win, major U.S. stock indexes soared in afternoon trading. Banks, in particular, enjoyed a good day [...]
In a couple of days, a lot of people are going to be very upset, and a lot will be very happy. Let’s face it, whatever happens, it’s about to get crazy… And if you’re placing your happiness or sanity—or lack thereof—in the hands of the person set to take the White House this week, [...]
Creating a plan to internationalize and diversify your life isn’t something you should undertake as a reaction against someone else. It’s something you should do for yourself, to protect yourself, your family, and your assets. When he was in office, I met countless Americans who were planning to leave the United States because of Obama. [...]
Imagine a country that uses the very same currency you do now… A business hub that’s at the center of the world… with tax advantages you won’t find back home… and a banking sector that has never had a single crisis. On top of this: it’s a tropical paradise with year-round warm weather, some of [...]
The key to living long-term overseas… and to escaping home at a moment’s notice if you need to… is residency and/or citizenship overseas… You can obtain residency or citizenship in more than one country. However, most expats obtain residency or a second citizenship in just one country outside their home country. Which country depends on [...]
In October, I’ll be in Porto, Portugal, for my annual Offshore Wealth Summit. One of the topics we’ll cover is filing taxes as an American offshore. Taxes are a hot topic right now as the presidential race heats up… Should he be elected, Trump plans to permanently extend his 2017 tax cuts, eliminate taxes on [...]
Trump and Vance versus Harris and Walz. Yeesh. In just a couple months we’ll have our winners… and losers. For close to 30 years, I’ve been warning people of the risks of hanging all your hopes on any one country… any one economy… or any one currency. That message has never been more pertinent than [...]
Baby Thomas James Delehanty arrived into the world in 1963 Arizona. A couple months later, having been adopted, he became John Edward Portmann. In 2019, he decided to research his family tree. Although he had long known he was adopted, he was shocked when the DNA test he took revealed his ancestry to be 100% [...]
The men in my life drink whisky. Lately they’ve been talking a lot about how it’s produced and what makes one bottle better than another. Dinner table conversations are given over to the history of the production of Scotch whisky, in particular. Fortunately, it’s a good story. It all started in 1494, when Friar John [...]
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