Your Plan B

Sitting on top of Arthur’s Seat, I looked out over the beautiful city of Edinburgh. Arthur’s Seat provides its visitors with a 360˚ view of Scotland’s capital city, Edinburgh. This…

A business that has established a solid local customer base can already be considered successful, but for many entrepreneurs, the local market is simply not big enough. The next step…

You know those cliché, inspirational life mottos?   Such as, Live life to the fullest YOLO (You Only Live Once) Live each day like your last! Well, in Latin America, we’re…

President Trump has a tendency of viewing global trade in terms of black and white: exports are good, imports are bad. To him, the benefits that a trade deal offers…

Going to work abroad or start a business offshore? The Foreign Earned Income Exclusion is the first, and often the only, rule you need to understand to save on your…

     Opium has been a big ticket item in Burma, Laos, and northern Thailand since the mid 1800s, and today Mandalay is allegedly home to the millionaire drug kingpins of Myanmar.…

I Spent My 26th Birthday in Prison… …And no, not as an inmate.  Every Sunday in October, the largest maximum-security prison in the southern United States hosts the Prisoner Rodeo,…

On to Bagan       A bus ride from Mandalay to Bagan costs twelve bucks and took eight hours. For thirty-one dollars I could fly across the river valley, catch a glimpse…

Yangon      Outside the airport, under a hot thick early morning Yangon sky, an edgy taxi driver insisted the hotel recommended by my guidebook had been closed for two years. I…

One of the cornerstones of Trump’s campaign was his opposition to free-trade agreements. He described the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as the “worst trade deal in history.” This…