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07-04-22 18:22 #26802
Posts: 539Real report
As you can see from the forex rates the real is fairly stable, allowing for a major hike in FED rates that drove it down. Nevertheless, Brazil offers many quality companies such as Petrobas and JBS with fundamentally strong, diversified business and great yield and have pricing power. The play these days is currency swaps and good companies with strong business and pricing power. The bigger companies can often offer a low cost collar that is less than yield, leading to some neat plays in currency and some well thought out derivatives. Surprisingly, the mythical brains trust on wall street does not even have the math to track their position in real time, and we all saw in 2009 (and what will soon happen) their stunning lack of insight. These guys run much of the US financial system as well as a bunch of ideologues dressed up as economists fooling around with monetary policy rather than good social policy. Naturally it regularly blows up. Behind the Fed pillars and flags are career butt lickers mostly without brains or a spine. Just wait for Freddie / Fannie Mac to implode, having bought all this paper (risk) at record low interest and future increased, unhedged funding costs and/or defaults about to scream. The banks are merely retail mortgage brokers, they stopped lending from their balance sheet decades ago. It's pretty much the same as 2006.
Who will buy all this hyped up, unproductive real estate? The millennials with student debt working three gig economy jobs? It's a Ponzi scheme, and that's the truth. The last 30 years will not be like the next. Incomes, that pay the coupons, have collapsed. The systemic risks are huge.
There is nothing wrong with investing in developing countries, yes, there could be a coup and nationalization, but not all places in South America and Africa are the same risk. The USA has many risks and parochialism that many don't take into account with assets there, such as divorce, seizure by the state under various excuses and the ever present risk of legal extortion by lawyers making up bullshit for quick payday. The USA has major internal decay, insane levels of debt predicated on the notion the USD cannot be toppled as trade settlement currency. Just ask Iran, Russia, China and India about their future near term plans and dependency on the USD. Ross Perot correctly called that in 1991, and he was a genuine, educated and successful entrepreneur able to act against personal self interest for longer term national goals and a robust supply chain. We all see how COVID treated all the low inventory / complex supply chain management consultant boys theories. When the nostalgic rose tinted glasses are removed, Brazil looks pretty good and has untapped potential, educated population, resources and a growing manufacturing economy.
The USA is not a safe haven, either with debt or property laws that is totally undermined by a plethora of hidden / indirect transaction costs. Nor has it been a haven for decades. If that were the case then all the offshore manufacturing, wealth management, medical, sex and lifestyle tourism and so on would not be the major and ever growing force that is. Just look at the exponential growth in Chinese IP and know how per capita.
Brazil is fine. It's people are mostly hard working, practical, and lack the mad, puritanical religious bullshit, being more rationally focused on roof over head and food on table rather than who is sleeping with who. Yeah, currencies fluctuate. I was up a few months ago, now I am back or even down a bit. So what? I'm betting against the USD. And like all quality assets and commodities, it is going up in absolute value against this stuff called money that is thoroughly debased and volatile. Compared to the true risk of other stores of wealth, it's fine.
You cannot take money with you. Everyday is a fluid risk, it's part of the fabric of life. One day will be my last, and yours too. Embrace life. My biggest improvement was to stop comparing social and monetary status. I have everything I need and more than enough to live as a thoughtful playboy, though I draw the line at bullshit like fancy watches, cars, first class airfares and other crap. Converting cash at a sustainable rate for here and now living pleasure and joy for myself, friends and family is the smart play. Hoarding and imagining an imaginary safe haven or future is the fool in the trade.
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07-04-22 04:24 #26801
Posts: 2245Where to stay in Rio or anywhere
Where to stay in Rio or anywhere.
The question of where to stay in Rio comes up often. The answer is simply: 1) pick the best top escort site (barravipsrio.com.br, or maybe riosexsite.com), 2) then ask all the girls where they prefer to meet at their own location, 3), then stay there. Right now, it appears to be out near Condominium Novo Leblon, in Barra. Close enough might be a place in Recreio, which is cheaper.
Posto 2 in Barra, ie, Classico Beach Club is pretty much tier 1 IMHO. Living there would be optimal.
You basically want a place where you, as a client of a Swiss Private Banker, can be compensated for your loyalty by the best hookers in the population.
Please do not disseminate this outside of the Government of Switzerland.
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07-03-22 15:47 #26800
Posts: 2245Did you look into getting a loan to buy the house in Brazil or did you pay cash?
Vagabundo prefers to bring as little capital onshore to Brazil as possible. He prefers to keep it somewhere in the Swiss Alps, all cyber accessible.
Originally Posted by PahllusMaximus [View Original Post]
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07-03-22 00:26 #26799
Posts: 6420Double amen!
Originally Posted by PahllusMaximus [View Original Post]
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07-03-22 00:17 #26798
Posts: 539Age old question
Mr Enternational is right on several fronts, and I still crack up at his Thai (insert farang here) meet the WG family. It's not really about sex. That takes you only a small way. A vagina is not a brain nor has language skills. For that you need a sentient person you can communicate with and have stuff in common for the other 95% of the time. Many, if not most of the girls don't have much on sale outside of selling their bodies, and I'd say that applies to many mongers who only have a wallet. The drunk cheap charlies of Thailand are an embarrassment. So many lonely and lost souls, and after they get "nutted out" , they think "what's the point" and are jaded out, meaning discover how empty they are without distractions. It is possible to find a lovely, smart and good person who happens to be a WG.
Possible but not probable. Same with "normal" females.
It's just that many WG have issues of poverty, abuse, drugs, pimps and / or obstacles and/or laziness at school or skilling up that puts them behind the eight ball more than normal girls. Parental income and commitment to education and setting good role models will make or break a child. Though I'm not a woman, getting fucked 5-10 times a day must be pretty numbing and hardens them up. Yet holding hands with some 20 year old is also fun, but it's just situational and pretending, so enjoy it, but know it will not last and don't try to control or possess it.
Street Life by Randy Crawford (1979)
I play the streetlife, because there's no place I can go
Streetlife, it's the only life I know
Streetlife, and there's a thousand parts to play
Streetlife, until you play your life away
You let the people see just who you wanna be
And every night you shine just like a super star
That's how the life is played, a ten cent masquerade
You dress, you walk, you talk
You're who you think you are....
Anything valuable usually takes hard work, persistence and patience. Instant gratification is very costly. That includes the care and feeding of good friends. Keep a small group of good, trusted friends (not the BS facebook definition), trust defined as keeping secrets, lending money, being prepared to take you in at 3 am and generally go out of their way such as helping you build a house or boat. If you have 2-3, you have already won the lottery. These real social connections are the stuff of life. So too is rejecting the lies and brainwashing of social status anxiety and expensive baubles like cars, clothes. Laugh at them.
Like Mr Enternational I live well below my means, shop at Ross and Goodwill and have no qualms about it. A fat and growing net wealth, houses in 3 countries, a group I talk to every day or two, and total freedom to travel, great food and good mental and physical health is what works for me.
And yes USA is sex prison with a pretty fucked system ranging from shitty health care, puritanical BS, guns, corruption, greed, the highest incarceration rate in the developed world and idiotic culture wars over bullshit rather than "why have glovbalization that fucks my basic housing and income security" real conversation. Just the way the elites like it. Divide, distract, keep em dumb and busy to see what is in their rational long term self interest
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07-01-22 17:37 #26797
Posts: 2041Originally Posted by Turgid [View Original Post]
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07-01-22 16:07 #26796
Posts: 5652Originally Posted by Xpartan [View Original Post]
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07-01-22 10:29 #26795
Posts: 15925Originally Posted by Xpartan [View Original Post]
Most chicks I meet online. When you meet chicks online then show up, all the pieces usually fall right into place. 99% of the time there is minimal money spent if any money at all. Hell like I said sometimes you don't even have to spend on a hotel because you can stay with the chick. Many chicks have cars so no need for taxis. They can even pick you up at the airport. I always fill their car up with gas though. The chicks that do not have cars usually come to you on the metro so no need to pay for someone's expensive taxi. Maybe you go out to eat with them but you were going to eat anyway. Not sure what could be costing so much over paying a GDP unless you plan on taking trips with them or something.
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07-01-22 05:14 #26794
Posts: 1956Originally Posted by MrEnternational [View Original Post]
Also, I can't be the only one who treasures the cheapness, simplicity and convenience of commercial sex in Brazil. I can tell them in no uncertain terms what I want, and 9 out of 10 cheerfully comply. To achieve a similar level of compliance with civilians it would take courting, patience, training and luck. In other words, time. And in my limited experience, courting civilians takes more money than any Brazilian GDP. I know you disagree, but again, that's my experience.
I remember finding a woman on Par Perfeito (years ago. A civilian from Cabo Frio in her 30's. Stunning body for her age. Brought her to Buzios, spent a couple of blessed days together. I was quite smitten with her, actually. A week later (I'd been in the States by then), she hit me up for the money, LOL.
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06-30-22 16:47 #26793
Posts: 2931Originally Posted by TravelGuy79 [View Original Post]
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06-30-22 15:24 #26792
Posts: 6420Amen!
Originally Posted by MrEnternational [View Original Post]
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06-30-22 12:33 #26791
Posts: 2245The side, tangential point is the main point: living in rich world puritan pussy prison america sucks.
As for the girl, show me a beautiful girl, and I will show you a guy who is sick of fucking her.
If you can figure out the logistics of digital nomad, retirement living in Brazil cheaply but better, then that's the prize.
Originally Posted by TravelGuy79 [View Original Post]
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06-30-22 12:26 #26790
Posts: 4053Originally Posted by TravelGuy79 [View Original Post]Originally Posted by TravelGuy79 [View Original Post]Originally Posted by TravelGuy79 [View Original Post]Originally Posted by TravelGuy79 [View Original Post]Originally Posted by TravelGuy79 [View Original Post]Originally Posted by TravelGuy79 [View Original Post]
Many first time visitors to Brazil get wild as they meet hot Brazilian GPS who give them better sex than they ever had in their life. These girls are smart and know how to make the gringos feel special. Soon they have a bunch of gringos sending them money on a regular basis.
I had a GP-friend who I used to meet for free sex. She used to work at Barbarella. She had three Americans sending her money and expensive presents (laptops, phones and even a dog) every month. She received so much money that she stopped working at Barbarella. Sometimes when we met at her apartment (the rent was payed by one of her boyfriends) she had to interrupt our sex to sweet-talk on of the boyfriends who called her.
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06-30-22 06:23 #26789
Posts: 15925Originally Posted by TravelGuy79 [View Original Post]
You are right about the materialism, but I think that is more of a young person's game anyway. At 50 I pretty much wear shorts from Goodwill, a t-shirt, and flip flops everyday. Versus when I was younger and had to have Polo everything. Overseas nobody looks at you crazy if you don't have a car. In most places in the USA you are kind of expected to have one.
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06-30-22 04:38 #26788
Posts: 15925Originally Posted by Xpartan [View Original Post]
When I first started learning Portuguese me and a buddy were on the bus headed to Vila Mimosa. I started flirting with the lady that takes the money. Then my buddy started talking to her and he got her number. She told him that she did not understand my Portuguese. Then not sure if it was the same trip but I was waiting on the bus headed back to the airport. I met a beautiful chick but she did not speak English and I hardly spoke Portuguese. We exchanged numbers but communication in the days before all these cell phones whatsapp and google translate was slow. Those were motivators for me to get in gear.
Then a couple of years later a buddy showed me Latin Cupid. The women on there were so beautiful. I said if I could speak Spanish I would be hell. That did not stop me though. First time to Peru I stayed at a chick's house. She did not speak English and I did not speak Spanish. But I spoke Portuguese and we were able to maneuver that way.
First time to Colombia I went to see a lawyer that I met on the site. She took the bus 14 hours to Bogota to see me. I did not speak Spanish and she did not speak English. I had bought a little translator thing and a Spanish dictionary from Target. That turned out to be shit. When I got back I took the translator back and still have the small dictionary.
First time to Dominican Republic I did not speak any Spanish. I was with a wingman from Miami though. I remember walking down the street talking to some hookers and one asked when I arrived. I asked my wingman how to say yesterday. He said ayer. Met a well to do chick on the site and she came to see me. We started dating. She spoke English though and now she lives in the States but still single. The rest is history.
All I can say is whether I have spoken local languages or not, I have never been motivated to pursue a serious relationship with a sex worker. Maybe I see things different because I am from the street and used to hang out with the pimps in high school and was a DJ in the strip club my last year of high school. It just seems ridiculous to me when there are so many normal women around.
By putting in a little effort you can meet and date them instead of the chick that fucks for a living. And this is coming from a guy that does not care if a chick is fucking other guys or not. Most boyfriends are really possessive and don't want their girl fucking other guys. To volunteer to try to turn the literal hoe into the proverbial housewife is beyond me.