World Borders Are Closing... Here's What You Need To Know When the doors closed, they closed fast and hard. Panama has stopped all flights from Europe and Asia. Germany has closed its land borders to all traffic except goods and people commuting for work. Poland had already closed its border with Germany in an effort [...]
Latin Beauties And A Police Shoot-out I traveled to Ecuador for the first time in 1999. This was before the country dollarized. The sucre fell from about 7,000 to the U.S. dollar to 24,000 to the U.S. dollar that year. Meantime, El Niño had devastated Ecuador's coastal regions, contributing to the economic chaos. Chaos breeds [...]
This Market Is Uniquely Positioned To Benefit From The Exploding Global Demands For Food And Fuel Our planet is home to more than 7.7 billion people. The United Nations estimates another billion in the next 10 years and a total of nearly 10 billion by mid-century. At the same time, the global middle class is [...]
We Are Days Away From The Historic U.S.-China Trade Deal. Here's How You Can Profit From It Next week, a handful of high-profile Chinese officials will board a plane for Washington, D.C., to attend a two-day ceremony, the culmination of which will be the signing of the U.S.-China Phase One trade deal. No, this won't [...]
What “QE4” Means For Global Investors—My #1 Prediction For 2020 Since the Great Recession, every major stock market move has come on the back of a central bank intervention. In March 2009, markets bottomed out when the Federal Reserve announced the massive expansion of its QE1 (quantitative easing) program, and they reached their peaks in [...]
This Childhood Chore Taught Me That Some Classic Investment Advice Is Plain Wrong I come from humble beginnings. The village I grew up in had fewer than a hundred houses… most of them farms. The nearest town was several miles away. My family’s trips to the grocery store had to be well planned, and we [...]
How Diversified Is Perfectly Diversified? Diversification... A concept any investor learns at the beginning of his investing career. It's a straightforward idea. You'd figure most would get it right. Wrong. Unfortunately, most investors don't understand how to achieve proper diversification. Some diversify too little... and some overdo it. I can't tell you how many times [...]
'Tis The Season For Legacy Planning (And Giving) Generational wealth bothers some people, from politicians who want to seize and redistribute it to the super wealthy who don't see the point of leaving everything to their kids. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates are on record stating their kids aren't going to inherit the majority of [...]
Countdown To U.S. Presidential Elections Begins… What Does It Mean For The Markets? 344 days... That's how much time we have left until the next U.S. presidential election. Sure, that's almost a year from now, and the Democrats still need to pick their nominee. Nonetheless, I think it's time we start talking about the 2020 [...]
Why I’m Cashing Out Of This Market This Week As I mentioned Monday, I closed this week on the sale of my rental property in Portugal. I bought the apartment on my first-ever trip to the country in 2015. A longtime friend and colleague on the ground told me that Portugal was finally coming out [...]
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