Tag: business

In 2007, I left the publishing company where I’d been working since the age of 21. I thought I was ...

Julia, our Simon Letter Managing Editor, is a first-generation Panama immigrant. In fact, she was the first person in her ...

As the backbone of Panama's ever-expanding economy, Panama City is constantly under pressure. Many of its residents work high-stress office ...

I don’t consider myself an investment-savvy person… Or at least I didn’t when I moved to Panama in 2005, at ...

Ecuador remains a top option for living, retiring, and investing overseas. It’s also one of your best current choices for ...

Until recently, if you wanted to teach English overseas—one of the most accessible gigs for job-seeking expats—you needed two things: ...

I sat across the street in my car staring at the door to building number 824. I was 21 years ...

Opening a business in Belize can be both surprisingly easy and comically frustrating. Don't get me wrong... you'll find only ...

The Huffington Post this week reports on “9 Countries With The Best Jobs,” taken from a report by survey company ...

The initial testing of the new Panama Canal locks have sprung a leak. The concrete retaining wall is part of ...

Sancas Realty, a subsidiary of Santiago Castillo Limited, has broken ground on a new commercial project for Ambergris Caye, next ...

  The Belize Tourism Board (BTB) has implemented a number of strategies and policies to ensure the sustainability of tourism ...

Multiple port operators in the United States, China, and Europe have expressed interest in the contracts available in the recent ...

Reading today about the drought in California hit home for me the long-term benefits of owning agricultural land somewhere in ...

La Estrella Panama reports that a price war is taking place between Panama hotels trying to entice tourists. The relatively high ...

Fidelity Investments has banned U.S. expats from buying or trading mutual funds in their Fidelity brokerage accounts. The ban on U.S. expats ...

A Glimpse Of Panama Behind The Curtain (As Only Lief Simon Could Provide) At first, launching a new life in a ...

Yep, It's A Trend “Would you say this is a trend...and that it is growing?” the reporter who interviewed me ...

Faux Pas In Panama—This Could Have Been A Game-Changer Last week, while we were all recovering from Christmas and preparing ...

The Secret To Making Money From Beachfront In Brazil Brazil presents opportunity for both the investor and the second-home-in-the-sun buyer. ...

Three Ways To Finance The Purchase Of Real Estate Overseas It is not possible in much of the world for ...

Innovation In The City Of Knowledge: Panama In what amounts to their freshman year of high school, students in the ...

Four Questions You Must Know Before Buying Property Overseas Having never been to a place before, how do you find ...

Lessons Learned In 20+ Years Living And Investing Overseas—The Time I Paid A Bribe We Americans seem to believe that ...

“Knock Three Times And Ask For Roscoe” “That’s what offshore banking used to be,” Peter Zipper, an offshore banker with ...

Clearly a tourism-based establishment, running a hostel can be a lucrative endeavor if you do it right. The market for ...

Ever On The Trail Of The World’s Most Awesome Stuff When he was 9-years-old, our son Jack declared that he ...

How Your Real Estate Investments Overseas Could Yield You Up To US$195,200 Per Year In Tax-Free Money If you are ...

Property Market Crash In Panama City? I Don’t Think So... With all the construction going on in Panama and especially in ...

What In The World Are All These Folks Doing Here? Here at home in the melting pot that is Panama ...

Forbes has released their top 10 countries to run a business in. The United States had to settle for tenth. ...