The Intellectual Adventurer

February 2, 2010

The Intellectual Adventurer is always on expedition.   The first journey is one not of miles, kilometers, fathoms or farthings but of attitude, mentality and philosophy.  Our adventurer is one who views the world through a global lens.  His paradigm is not based on his hometown, state, province or country. It is based on his personal [...]

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January 2010: Is The Inevitable Imminent?

January 31, 2010

Volume IV, Issue 1/ January 2010 Welcome Letter Sometimes it is hard to juggle the travel in search of unique and profitable lifestyle, investment and speculating opportunities with the ever looming end of the month deadline. The fact that I am rather unorganized and subscribe to the theory ¨If you wait to the last minute, it [...]

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December 2009 – Trees Don’t Grow To The Sky

December 30, 2009

Volume III, Issue 12 / December 2009 Welcome Letter The other night I was at the grand opening of one of the trendy new bar restaurants in La Barra. It was an eclectic crowd. We encountered a European countess freely chatting with a local electrician turned jazz musician. In another corner the former CEO of [...]

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November 2009 – A Time To Sell

November 30, 2009

Volume III, Issue 11 / November 2009 Welcome Letter Welcome Back. We hope our North American subscribers had an enjoyable Thanksgiving. We would have missed Thanksgiving entirely were it not for a reminder from a Chinese investment banker friend and the kind efforts of our friends and subscribers here in Uruguay. In fact one subscriber [...]

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October 2009 – Cash Is King

October 31, 2009

Volume III, Issue 10 / October 2009 Welcome Letter By the time this monthly missive hits your inbox, we will be attending the grand opening of La Estancia de Cafayate www.laestanciadecafayate.com in the northern Argentine province of Salta. Because of several short notice trips and because we wanted to provide you with the best information [...]

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September 2009 – The Art of Doing Nothing Well

September 30, 2009

Volume III, Issue 9 / September 2009 Welcome Letter Welcome back. As I sat to pen this monthly missive, I gazed out over the pasture as a scene unfolded that gave birth to the title for this edition. Under a big eucalyptus tree sat the bull the kids named Ferdinand. He is a big bull [...]

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August 2009 – New Beginnings

August 31, 2009

Volume III, Issue 8 / August 2009 Welcome Letter Hola from Patagonia. I am sitting in front of a cozy fire with a bottle of Postales fin del Mundo malbec. This has been a dual purpose trip – scouting for opportunities and a family ski vacation. While from time to time I secretly fancy myself [...]

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July 2009- The New Normal

July 31, 2009

Volume III, Issue 7 / July 2009 Welcome Letter Those of you paying close attention to the calendar will notice we pushed up our semi annual portfolio review by a couple of months. We did this because we have a nagging voice in the back of our head clamoring for caution and calling for crisis. [...]

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June 2009 – The Vice Issue!

June 30, 2009

Volume III, Issue 6 / June 2009 Welcome Letter Fitz here. Since our last missive there have been many changes here at Without Borders. After thirty days of trying to juggle our travel schedules and portfolios while making a shift to a much more hands off , albeit supportive, publisher we are just about to [...]

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May 2009 – The Stupidity Bubble

May 31, 2009

Volume III, Issue 5 / May 2009 Welcome Letter Welcome back. ‘Twas a strange month indeed, full of hysteria and emotion-driven market swings. The piggy virus that was overhyped as if it were the end of mankind. Bernanke’s self-congratulatory rhetoric about being past the economic bottom. The government’s unethical influence over the Chrysler bankruptcy. We [...]

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