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 […]
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 […]
Ceuta Conquered by More Invaders. Russia Struggles and War continues.
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). […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Open Door Consultancy: Don’t Be Complacent; Get Moving Perhaps you’ve read my article here, arguing that the same types of people occupying countries has been radically changed and therefore we can expect a fundamentally different outcome for the future: But I’m not talking about this now, I’m talking about the question of the existing locals […]
Weekly Weigh In: Rightfully Upset?, Delayed Impact, Italy Attack, Writesoapbox.com, Okay Boomer: I’ve heard a video from Canadians, young men, around 20 years old who were articulating the point that because everything done is for the boomer and older generation–and that they felt completely disregarded, they felt it was just to completely disregard the health […]
Weekly Weigh In: Contrarian Stock Pick, Spain, Project Vault, Broke Generation, Never Since the Iraq War, FIFA & Mencho’s Books The sector everybody hates…diamonds. It has received a bad name given the emergence of lab-grown or lab-made diamonds–and Lucara Diamond has been crushed in share price. However… They’ll be pumping out a huge margin in […]
