304: Expat News: Bukele’s Bitcoin Bank, Portugal Shuns Expats, & Milei’s Record Surplus
A Bitcoin bank in El Salvador? That’s the headline that sits atop this week’s Expat News, the third edition in this series, where I analyze the latest news affecting the expat world. We’ve had a lot of really great feedback about this new segment we’re doing on the show, so I do plan on making this a regular aspect of the show, so enjoy today’s Expat News!
TODAY’S EDITION OF EXPAT NEWS:
- Listen in and get my take on El Salvador President Nayib Bukele’s place to create a “Bitcoin bank.”
- Learn about Portugal’s “brilliant” new housing policy, which is primed to scare off expats.
- Is Javier Milei really turning Argentina around? Argentina’s reported record surpluses seem to suggest that he may be seeing some success on the economic front.
- Could Turkey become the next expat crypto hub? Hear me dissect the recent announcement that the country will exempt profits from cryptocurrencies from taxation.
- Discover which Caribbean nation is raising its CBI prices, as I have been warning about for some time.
- Should there be concern over Mexico’s newly elected socialist President, Claudia Scheinbaum? I’ll examine her policies and how they could affect expats in the country.
- Uncover which Latin American country I am definitely not recommending for expats, particularly considering recent political events in that country.
- Lastly, we’ll look at the recent plea deal that freed heroic journalist Julian Assange.
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CONCLUSION
I hope you enjoyed this third edition of Expat News. A lot goes into these episodes, from sourcing the articles to laying out my thoughts and forming my opinions, but I really enjoy doing them and will continue to do these regularly so long as interest remains. Hopefully these help to keep you informed about everything affecting expats in this rapidly-changing world.
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Thanks for sharing. Interesting what is happening in the global community. Glad to be out of some of the mix.
It will be interesting to watch to see what happens in the following countries in the next few months:
Mexico, Portugal, Bolivia and the expat communities in those countries.
It will also be interesting to see how Milei handles (survives) the next few months in Argentina.