By Sidney Secular

April 22, 2025

When you hear the term, “investment”, you think of obtaining something for its anticipated rise in value in the future. There is another category of investment that may rise in value over time, but the principle purpose in purchasing it is not profit, but in acquiring valuable items that retain their value, so that when other investments fail, the investor will still have at least a portion of his wealth to fall back on.

When the tidings are for bad economic times, as they are now, the retention of wealth assumes far more significance. In almost every country now, personal wealth is threatened with increased taxation, devaluation of currencies, collapses in markets, and even confiscation of bank accounts and introduction of digital currencies, so the time to find the safest havens for your wealth is now.

At some point in the coming debacle, or “Great Unraveling”, we will reach the point when virtually the only “safe” investments will be precious metals and real estate. However, precious metals and real estate ownership will only be safe if they are located outside an endangered jurisdiction. It probably goes against your grain and what’s been ground into you to not own anything outside the US, but the gravest threat to your wealth has come and will continue to come from your own government. It is far more difficult for your “govmint” to destroy your wealth if you have “expropriated” it, since your government does not have free control of the laws and the government where you have deposited or acquired your items of wealth.

It would be hard for our government to grab your repatriated precious metals, but impossible for it to grab your overseas real estate. When you choose a candidate foreign country in which to place your precious metals and/or acquire real estate, you should choose a country that is not likely to be a candidate for a major decline in the coming economic collapse, is not likely to cave into the demands of a country(like the US) that is likely to itself collapse, and has laws that impose restrictions on foreign-owned investments.

The safest countries are those that do not tend to fall prey to dictatorships or dramatic changes in laws, in other words, those least likely to interfere with the ownership of your investment. Many governments around the world are now hopelessly in debt and on the verge of economic collapse. They will resort to desperate measures like grabbing their citizens’ wealth. It doesn’t matter if your wealth. is $5,000 or $500,000. If the former was in gold coins, you could be better off than if the latter was in paper money.

What countries should the investor consider? Several nations like Bahrain, Bermuda, Brunei, the Cayman Islands, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates(UAE) have no income taxes. There are 16 nations with no property tax — they include Bahrain, the Cayman Islands, Croatia, the Cook islands, Dominica, Fiji, Israel, Kuwait, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turks and Caicos, and the UAE. The investor may also consider which of the above countries may additionally provide his investments with increased value.

You may not savor the perceived unsavory reputation of some of the aforesaid countries, but they could be your savior, providing safe places to park your assets or acquire real estate.

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