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The degree of difficulty has been increased regarding the process for approval of a green card for your foreign spouse. These requirements are in effect going forward from now (April 2025).

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Lots of talk about how other countries are stealing all of America's jobs, but the combination of AI and automation is going decimate certain job segments in the next 10, 15 years. American AI and American automation will be putting millions of Americans out of work.

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Fresh-baked cookies and pies out of the oven, walks in the park, patiently playing a board game with you, and lots of other things, everyone's got their favourite memories of their grandmother. Here's my memory.

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Although little-known at the time, and almost completely unknown to anyone except economists now, in 1985 some very smart economists from the Reagan Administration and then the subsequent George Bush Sr. Administration, and Japan, and several Western European nations,  hammered out the Plaza Accord (so-called because the meeting happened at the famous Plaza Hotel in NYC) to depreciate the dollar. This would happen through joint currency intervention. They executed this currency policy coordination policy plan with the help of some equally smart people from our close trusted allies. It worked.

Now, the Trump Administration seems to be intent on executing at least some parts of the "Mar-A-Lago Accord", a wide-ranging policy document ginned up by the Project 2025 folks, that wants to mimic the Plaza Accord in many ways. Will it work?

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A quick overview of what's good and bad about being retired in the Philippines. Can you live like a king there for $1000 USD a month? Um, no. Is it paradise? Again, no. But it's still worth strong consideration.

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I meet Bo Diddley on a plane and things go so wrong.

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Yeah, me too. But I started thinking about it in 2017, and I've done quite a bit of due diligence around that goal since then. The main driver of my search for another country is economic for me; I'm looking for a place where I can live a decent life, maybe even a good life, on the limited retirement income I have available to me at this age, AND, still get the quality healthcare I need.

This is a very brief overview of some of the things I know now about what countries might meet the criteria I have regarding an overseas location.

As I mention in the podcast, if you have questions, send those to me, and I will personally answer your questions in a follow-up podcast.

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Brief overview of Al Hirt, the famous trumpet player from New Orleans

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I love classic cars and I've owned dozens of these kinds of cars in my life so far. I've gotten a lot of pleasure from my interest in classic cars. However, when someone (usually some old guy) starts telling you how much better cars were "back in the day", send him this link.

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The short recounting of the life-changing bizarre incident that happened to the pop singer Jimmie Rodgers in 1967.

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