Free Independent

In my last post, I discussed why someone might want to purchase a website for passive income. Today I’ll talk about my thought process for deciding on a website investment using a website that I added to my portfolio last week. First of all, the stock market has been so volatile that I felt I [...]

Over the next few posts, I’m going to go over the strategy of buying a website or a digital property as an investment. I recently made a website investment as a substitute for stocks. The website should generate a reasonable rate of return on a monthly basis and with a little TLC the site might [...]

The Sovereign Man blog had a post about how to Maximize Your Freedom. I thought I would go through these recommendations and add some of my own thoughts. A lot of people take this type of information and think that it applies to them. I thought that I would clarify at what income level/net worth [...]

Should you splurge for the new 2010 edition of ‘The Four Hour Work Week?’ I’m a big fan of the original book which I thought had a lot of practical philosophy for liberating time in a hyperactive world. The book advertised that there is 100 pages of new “cutting edge” content so I took the [...]

I recently went through the 30 day Challenge Offered by Ed Dale. The idea is to have someone make one dollar of income from a website in 30 days. The course is free and you do not have to spend any money in order to create a site. The 30 day challenge site was taken [...]

From the start of adolescence most of us are encouraged to become specialists. To specialize in a particular area of law or medicine is considered by most parents to be the pinnacle of human achievement. There’s only one problem – specialization is a horribly boring existence. Yes, it will guarantee that you are always employed [...]

I have been hearing more and more stories about the foreclosure market in Costa Rica. The beach communities, especially Jaco and Tamarindo have been hit especially hard. One of the bigger projects in Tamarindo has been halted for almost two years. It looks like the initial condo investors will lose their down payments. “In 2006, [...]

One of the trends that I’ve mentioned previously is the beginning of an exodus out of developed world economies like the United States, Britain and Western Europe in favor of emerging markets. The reasons for this exodus include the telecommunications infrastructure in the developed world which enables people to live in one country and keep [...]

Throughout the 90′s I remember listening to foreign nationals complain that their best and brightest were heading to the U.S. The Berlin Wall had just fallen and most of the Eastern European countries were a mess, there was a war in Europe (former Yugoslavia), Brazil was trying to stabilize inflation rates of 100%/yr, China was [...]