http://www.quora.com/Borders-geography/What-are-the-coolest-photos-of-international-borders
“Iran Aseman are the only airlines that fly direct to Shiraz, Iran from Dubai, and was also a good opportunity to fly a new aircraft/airline too. No online booking and had to buy the ticket with cash at their agency in Dubai. They also only set their schedule ~3 weeks in advance so made planning the trip a bit more difficult, but apart from that I had no major issues. The flight was less than an hour long but was still served a decent meal for dinner. Me and an Emirati guy were the only tourists on the flight.”
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trip-reports/1573810-trip-iran.html
“Moving overseas can seem like a costly proposition, at least with all the upfront expenses – but relocating to some cities can actually save you money in the long haul. According to the March 2014 Worldwide Cost of Living Index, affordable cities can be found on almost every continent. The report compares prices of 160 goods and services, from cars to bread to wine, across 131 cities. For reasons of geographical diversity – as well as to include cities whose international communities, career opportunities and levels of safety would particularly appeal to expats – we focused on what it would be like to live in five of the 10 cheapest cities on the Economist’s index.”
http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20140523-living-in-the-worlds-most-affordable-cities/1
“Economic citizenship programs are proliferating. That’s something to celebrate. These programs are a bracing antidote to the increasing tendency of governments to impose travel restrictions against their citizens, using passports as weapons. This has long been the policy of authoritarian governments like North Korea and China. But in recent years, the US and UK have made much greater use of passport revocations and even involuntary loss of citizenship against persons they perceive as ‘enemies of the state.’ Is it really surprising that a market has arisen to deal with these draconian restrictions on one of humanity’s most basic rights, the right to leave one’s own country?”
http://www.nestmann.com/heres-one-fight-uncle-sam-cant-win
“Rich people in France are pulling up stakes. They will escape the tax man. (Unlike the USA, if you are not living in France, you do not pay taxes to the French government.) Young people in France who want to start businesses say they want to leave France. A lot of them will. France’s taxes are higher than anywhere else in Western Europe. French unions are stronger. French workers don’t put in Germanic days — or even Italian days. Before the eyes of the world, the Keynesian experiment is going belly-up. A self-proclaimed socialist is captain of France’s economic Titanic.”
http://teapartyeconomist.com/2014/06/03/french-fried-entrepreneurs-leaving/
“Matthew Youlden speaks nine languages fluently and understands more than a dozen more. We work in the same office in Berlin, so I constantly hear him using his skills, switching from language to language like a chameleon changing colors. In fact, for the longest time I didn’t even know he was British. When I told Matthew how I’ve been struggling to merely pick up a second language, he had the following advice for me. If you believe that you can never become bilingual, take note!”
http://www.babbel.com/magazine/10-tips-from-an-expert
“Gerard Mulliez is often called the Sam Walton of France. The Mulliez family has businesses with annual revenues of about $60 billion and more than a quarter million employees. You’ve probably never heard of them. And you’ve almost certainly never seen a picture of them. They’re discreet, private and unassuming. The family has been in business for two centuries. But only in the last 50 years has it built one of the world’s biggest and most profitable family-business empires. And it has done it while also creating one of the biggest and most successful families. I have identified six secrets to the Mulliez family’s success.”
http://www.bonnerandpartners.com/6-success-secrets-of-a-22-billion-family/
“Erin sits down with Doug Casey of Casey Research to talk about an extreme form of coercion: the income tax on US citizens abroad. Casey talks about taxes, citizenship, and government waste. Then Erin talks to Axel Merk of Merk Investments to get a handle on the world economy and the monetary experiments in the US and Japan. Merk also discusses what he expects from the European Central Bank in the midst of quantitative easing expectations.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh4WTKajNaM
“Credit Suisse is the largest financial company to plead guilty to the non-crime of ‘money laundering’ in 20 years. The plea marks the end of an era. One of the shell entities implicated, according to the government, dated back a century – or just after the creation of the federal tax code and the income tax. Of the $2.6 billion fine, The Department of Justice will receive $1.8 billion and New York State’s top financial regulator, Benjamin Lawsky, will receive $715 million of the stolen loot. With the FATCA coming into full effect on January 1, 2016, and the US government actively prosecuting banks, only savvy Americans will be able to find financial institutions abroad to service them.”
“I like gold, foreign securities, unique startup situations and IPOs and even mining stocks, although I’m not convinced mining shares will do well because there are now so many other precious metal alternatives. As I said earlier, I believe big money will likely be made by early investors into the exciting new cannabis startups and IPOs. But diversify any investment in this area among a number of companies because many will fail and only a few will do well. Once again, although there are real medical benefits from cannabis use, the government policy change is primarily because they need the revenue at all levels of government.”