Weekly Weigh In: Serbia Step Down, Government Hacked!, Private Charters + Monday Core Quad Serbia’s long-serving populist strongman, Aleksandar Vučić, admitted defeat and was effectively ousted from power by a grassroots, student-led protest movement following snap parliamentary elections. Interestingly, Vucic blamed the blamed his loss on independent media, unnamed European countries, and an “American deep state” The […]
Tag: Europe
October 11th, 2026
Weekly Weigh In: France Falling, Saudi Bombed, Mexico Riot and Energy Everything, Gone Higher France Riots France, an entirely bankrupt country with massive deficits, massive taxes and regulations, a crumbling bond market, massive debts leading to an enormous interest bill that almost cannot be paid, a number of political coups and weekly protests about dozens […]
Privacy Will Win for Wealth
The Latest Trend—Money on the Move But where is the money going to move? There are numerous great indicators and trackers for this sort of question that are released annually–visual capitalist are experts at presenting this data, henley and partners often track this, as well as Knight Frank and Mr. Family Office (to share some […]
August 30th, 2026
Weekly Weigh In: Real Estate Math, Trip to Sicily, Russia Supported, Jeff Thomas Libertas Real Estate Reminder Napkin Math… if you buy a $400,000 home with 20% down at 7%… You borrow $320,000. Over 30 years, you repay about $766,000. Add the $80,000 down payment and you paid ~$846,000 total. That’s before taxes, insurance, or […]
My Trip Through The Trash
First Time To Sicily For Investment Research Coming from Trapani airport we realized that money has left here 50 years ago…and hasn’t stopped since. I was genuinely happy to have left this island. I had gone to Sicily for three main reasons Only a few countries have made me feel sketched out, Canada being one […]
August 2nd, 2026
Ceuta Conquered by More Invaders. Russia Struggles and War continues.
Malta
On The Ball Travels Vacation for a week or less, Amazing. Living there, Get. Me. Out. Trip to Old Malta I flew from London Heathrow direct to Valletta, Malta. KM Malta Airlines was a nice little change compared to other airlines (we noticed the airline agents were Indians, something that will make sense later on). […]
July 26th, 2026
Weekly Weigh In: Billionaire Birth Place, Tax from Soccer, Europe Thoughts & South Korean Traders Interested in moving your precious metals across borders? Ask me how Tax from World Cup The players won $995K each. After US tax + Spain tax: ~$450K. More than half their prize money goes to tax. The irony? → Spain […]
Weekly Weigh IN from Europe
Got the Green Light. Now Accepting Investors Vote Harder Upon my travels to Europe recently, I’ve noted that absolutely everybody was consumed about shallow events of football, the best parties, the brightest fireworks, the best foods while complaining about the state of their situation and their country around them. Their solution is to only vote […]
Open Door Consultancy: The Flow of the River
we can imagine we’re betting on different European boats (Europe is easier cause there’s so many countries), but the reality is they’re all in the same river which flows in the same direction. If we’re all in agreement that that river leads over a waterfall–then all there is to debate about is which boat is closest to the waterfall relative to another.
