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Your Business Makes You Rich, Not Your Investments

I get a lot of questions about investing. Often guys write very long, detailed questions and scenarios regarding how to invest, where to invest, how to make a lot of money investing, and so on. Investing is a fun and interesting topic for a lot of men (myself...

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Should You Own or Rent?

I get this question a lot. Should I purchase a home with a mortgage, or should I rent? If I buy a place, I’ll need shitloads of money and a down payment and all that stuff. What if I want to move later and can’t sell? But if I rent, then aren’t I wasting bazillions of...

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Who Is Five Flags For?

If you’re unfamiliar with what five flags is, read this. The nutshell is that it involves living abroad and spreading out your businesses and finances internationally to increase freedom, increase diversification, increase long-term security, and lower your taxes. Is...

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Outsourcing All of Your Email

Like most of you, I have numerous email accounts that I use for different purposes. Actually, I probably have more email accounts than most people since I own three different companies. A few years back when I started getting really busy, I outsourced the management...

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Betting On International

America’s next recession is coming shortly. It may already be here. How do you make money in your investments, or at least protect your investments, if America is in recession and most everything there goes to shit? As always, I am not an investments expert and I...

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Niching and Micro-niching

One of the hardest aspects of an Alpha 2.0 business, and perhaps the aspect I get the most questions about, is how to determine your market niche. One of the traits of the Alpha 2.0 business is that unlike most companies, which try to sell a product or service to...

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My Five Flags Plan as of December 2018

This is an update of exactly where I stand with all the countries I’m working with on my five flags plan to permanently move out of the United States, save myself a shitload of money on taxes, increase my freedom, and increase my income. As always, this plan is still...

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The Stock Market

The stock market continues to crash, over 3000 points over the last few weeks, apparently sending Tantrum Trump into a rage. And the volatility will continue. A few basics about the US stock market that most normal people don’t understand. 1. The stock market is not a...

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Will There Be Civil War in the USA???

One of the recurring questions I keep seeing is whether or not the USA will end up in some kind of civil war between the alt-lite/alt-right/Trump supporters and the left-wing/Antifa/progressive types. Political infighting is worse right now than in any time in my...

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Staying 100% Legal With Five Flags

Is offshoring your business or finances legal? Is having multiple passports legal? Is having multiple residencies legal? Yep. It’s 100% legal (unless you do it incorrectly). Is reducing your tax down to microscopic levels legal? Won’t you get in trouble? The answer...

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Is Debt Good or Bad?

One of the strongest aspects of my financial advice is to pay off all of your debts (except possibly your mortgage payment if you have one) and stay debt free for the rest of your life. This advice is a solid foundation of Alpha Male 2.0 and will always be so. This is...

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A Dragon In Colombia

The last country on my Latin America tour is Colombia, specifically its primary city, Bogotá. I’m checking Colombia out not because of the usual reasons Westerners come here; it’s not because of the women, and not because I want to live there, and not because I think...

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Types of Business Owners

In working with scores, or even perhaps hundreds of business owners (I never counted) over the last almost 25 years, I’ve noticed that most business owners break down into the following categories. They are listed in no particular order. The Visionary Visionaries are...

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Books I’ve Been Reading Lately – Part 2

Here are some mini-reviews of some books I’ve read lately. As always, I read one non-fiction book and one fiction book at a time. The non-fiction book is usually a business book, but I will often read books on history and man-woman relationships. The fiction book is...

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Bitcoin’s Recent Crash

Bitcoin, along with most other cryptocurrencies, has plummeted lately. It recently descended into the $3,000s after being over $18,000 just a year ago. Other cryptos have been even worse. Bitcoin Cash was over $3,000 a year ago, and now it’s at about $180. Ethereum...

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A Dragon In Argentina

“Don’t cry for me Argeeeeeeeeeeeeentina! The truth is I neeeever left you!” (I’ve been singing that song while here.) Of all the cities I’m visiting on this Latin America trip, Buenos Aires is the one I’ve wanted to visit for the longest time. While I’m pretty sure...

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Overview of How Five Flags Works

Above you’ll see a handy dandy flowchart (click it to zoom) that I actually had to set up for myself to keep my thoughts straight on all this stuff as I implement it. Five flags is a way in which you can minimize your taxes, maximize your freedom, and maximize your...

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A Dragon In Paraguay

Flying into Asunción, the largest and capital city of the country of Paraguay, you see nothing but green, jungle-like landscape as far as the horizon. Then you see this little city poking out from the middle of nowhere. “The middle of nowhere” is pretty apt. Deep into...

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Is The “Customer Always Right”?

You’ve heard it many times: The customer is always right. This is probably one of the most well-known pieces of business advice there is. But is it accurate? Is the customer always right? From a technical standpoint, obviously the answer is no. My first real job was...

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