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Expat News: Bukele's Bitcoin Bank, Portugal Shuns Expats, & Milei's Record Surplus
Episode 304
Published 1 year, 10 months ago
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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.