Recent content by PassinBy

> It is still working well. Why would you consider it? Fees are high for SWIFT. Wine, beautiful women, the food. All the usual heart attack risk factors :) > And check this Interesting. I wonder where @permabear found their correspondent banks.

What is the current state of international banking in Georgia in 2025? It appeals as a base, but I would need to be able to get paid from abroad (mostly boring countries) and occasionally pay people.

Wouldn't that be insurrection if it was the other way around?

Portuguese Social Security is capped for self employed

> you pay a certain amount of taxes, and they become clean. That seems... potentially problematic :oops:

I've known people in Spain to simply save in cash out of fear the tax authorities will debit their bank accounts. Not that they mind paying what they owe, they just don't want to go bankrupt if someone gets greedy.

Ultimately, if you are receiving money in Dubai, or any country, from somewhere else, you might need to explain where its been generated, because otherwise the assumption they'll be allowed to make is that it's being generated wherever you are. I suspect the UAE is less easily curious than most...

I mean, we in the West might look on that as primitive because we want all sorts of legal arrangements tying us together. And then, you open The Telegraph geriatric money guide, and the first thing it will say is to get a Power of Attorney (potentially near limitless access to your assets)...

Sounds similar to the Fair Tax proposal https://fairtax.org/about/how-fairtax-works

A US Passport let you walk on water in the 80s, but I don't think that's true now. But if the world re-territorialises - the USA is probably still the best single country to get trapped in.

Probably Horizon 2020 (now Horizon Europe) funding *sigh*

Tether is looking better by the day. Was never expecting to write those words! o_O

So UAE banks freak on direct deposits from crypto exchanges, but are happy with banker's cheques from OTC?

Are they really that much safer when Ukraine is reconstituting a domestic cruise and ballistic missile capability? Everyone on the Western side is tolerating Kaliningrad... Where does this all end? The Finnish border is 333km from St Petersburg. And where are these missiles? "We" mothballed...

Honestly, trade Luhansk for the rest of Kherson (maybe Melitopol), let them have a treaty road to Crimea, and everyone just* goes home. * Complex demilitarised buffer zones, mutual arms restrictions, etc. Admittedly, I'm saying this from a comfortable bar in Western Europe without 350 years of...