Recent content by HardRJones

Has there ever been hyperinflation in gold or gold backed currency in history? The answer is yes. It (in part) brought down the Spanish Habsburgs. There are changing tastes in the west with respect to gold jewelry but don’t forget that India represents approximately 25% of the global market...

The Italian one is a standard court case filed for the maternal line under the citizenship law of 1948. That process is simple but lengthy. You gather official documents (birth certificate, marriage certificate, and naturalization certificates) for each ancestor back to the last ancestor born in...

I’m already all in on both Italian and UK processes. Read the tea leaves and started the Italian process well before the current changes. I wanted to see if there were any contrarian viewpoints. It seems like the biggest risk would be UK implementing global taxation but given how the Labour...

They quote the rationale in the linked report and it’s clear the reason for the amendment is to target citizenship by investment. There has been past pressure to restrict this sort of thing. It’s a valid question as to whether additional pressure will be applied to Malta over their program...

Hopefully you did.

You didn’t have a seven figure gain today?

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italy-curbs-citizenship-rules-end-tenuous-descendant-claims-2025-03-28/ The summary: The government instituted a legislative decree to modify citizenship by descent under emergency powers effective at midnight Rome time on March 27. All existing applications...

This is true but I doubt they’ll kick Malta out of Schengen. I wonder if they’ll apply pressure on some of these golden visa schemes within the EU next. No value judgement from me, but it makes sense from their perspective. I’m honestly surprised at some of the places they allow to have visa...

https://www.imidaily.com/europe/eu-parliament-committe-advances-proposal-to-cut-visa-free-access-for-cbi-countries/ The European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) has voted to approve amendments to EU visa regulations that would explicitly target...

Tip: A roll of US hundred dollar bills feels like a bag of wet sand.

Isn’t that one of the reasons people here focus on freedom and mobility? So we don’t have to care?

I suspect that was just Trump or someone talking like they do. The program doesn’t exist yet so I can’t see how.

Are there any reasons for someone who is eligible for UK and EU nation citizenships (let’s say something like Italy, for the sake of approximate specificity) by ancestry to not get these citizenships? Assume US citizenship and no other citizenships or residencies at the moment. Conventional...

First, Daily Mail. Second, I love Spain but I’d never live there for tax reasons. Third, this is a risk anywhere. Just because things are written a certain way on paper or just because you are being left alone for now, doesn’t mean that cannot change quickly. Fourth, the only defense is...

There is also one fundamental difference in policing between the US and the EU that impacts perceptions of travelers. In the EU, most often police will keep the city centers secure and push the undesirable elements out towards the suburbs, giving you situations like TBM and the congregation of...