Humpy, you are right about some of this.....
If you are really bored with a faily easy hum-drum life then don't go West anymore go East !!!!!
The amount of money sloshing about for the toughest is truly amazing.
It's a whole new world of paying off officialdom, paying off the mafia and grabbbing a share of the pickings !! If you can live that long. A bit like the old West must have been like !!
There is little recourse to the law if your neighbour is threatening you unless their orders from ??? says they better do something.
If you hate law and order, socialism etc. etc. then Russia is just the place for you if you're tough enough !
So don't moan too much if you're a wimp the alternatives are MUCH worse
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Actually, you could have been talking about some of Latin America as well.....there is a lot of money sloshing around resource based countries right now.....and even in the poorer countries, small monopolies still abound.....and the local politics often decides who has jobs and who does not.
But make no mistake, it can get a little raw.
The US is enshrowded with legal largesse to the degree that it is just too excessive in just about every category imaginable. One can choose to be free in a raw world....or perhaps never free.....The lawyer section in the phone books just gets thicker and thicker.
However, there are some countries that are very Darwinistic as Humpy has suggested. In some, you are your own police. But, when you are one of the strong ones, the rewards are quite high.
The legal systems in many countries are moreless nonexistant.
It amounts to creating your own freedoms.
Red Ink, in another post got it right....the US has become a litigators paradise, and a working man's nightmare....
My commentaries relate to the idea that I am selfish in the sense that most other countries are in such chaos that the US is the only hope in the sense that it has the system whereby there is a chance to get it right. Once the US gets it right.....it will help other countries that will follow......
This is why it is so important that the US get it right, because if it cannot.....then many outside governments will falter even more.....I am very selfish....I want to see companies like BATS create low commission electronic stock exchanges for Asia and Europe, and the rest of the world......which commenced with Island, ARCA....you know the story......BATS is USA based.....A perfect example.......etc....etc....
However, what is true is that one can/must become more global....you can make the world yours....and not theirs....and becoming more worldly leads to a more knowledgible and perhaps fullfilling life....which trading boundaries defined by internet broadband access allows one to do.....
Jim Rogers has got it right....and there is nothing stopping you from becoming another Rogers....
If you are really bored with a faily easy hum-drum life then don't go West anymore go East !!!!!
The amount of money sloshing about for the toughest is truly amazing.
It's a whole new world of paying off officialdom, paying off the mafia and grabbbing a share of the pickings !! If you can live that long. A bit like the old West must have been like !!
There is little recourse to the law if your neighbour is threatening you unless their orders from ??? says they better do something.
If you hate law and order, socialism etc. etc. then Russia is just the place for you if you're tough enough !
So don't moan too much if you're a wimp the alternatives are MUCH worse
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Actually, you could have been talking about some of Latin America as well.....there is a lot of money sloshing around resource based countries right now.....and even in the poorer countries, small monopolies still abound.....and the local politics often decides who has jobs and who does not.
But make no mistake, it can get a little raw.
The US is enshrowded with legal largesse to the degree that it is just too excessive in just about every category imaginable. One can choose to be free in a raw world....or perhaps never free.....The lawyer section in the phone books just gets thicker and thicker.
However, there are some countries that are very Darwinistic as Humpy has suggested. In some, you are your own police. But, when you are one of the strong ones, the rewards are quite high.
The legal systems in many countries are moreless nonexistant.
It amounts to creating your own freedoms.
Red Ink, in another post got it right....the US has become a litigators paradise, and a working man's nightmare....
My commentaries relate to the idea that I am selfish in the sense that most other countries are in such chaos that the US is the only hope in the sense that it has the system whereby there is a chance to get it right. Once the US gets it right.....it will help other countries that will follow......
This is why it is so important that the US get it right, because if it cannot.....then many outside governments will falter even more.....I am very selfish....I want to see companies like BATS create low commission electronic stock exchanges for Asia and Europe, and the rest of the world......which commenced with Island, ARCA....you know the story......BATS is USA based.....A perfect example.......etc....etc....
However, what is true is that one can/must become more global....you can make the world yours....and not theirs....and becoming more worldly leads to a more knowledgible and perhaps fullfilling life....which trading boundaries defined by internet broadband access allows one to do.....
Jim Rogers has got it right....and there is nothing stopping you from becoming another Rogers....
