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Normally people would own gold and keep it in a nice safe deposit box, but times are never normal, and the government does not have dozens of programs focused o
by VLM 10y ago
Normally people would own gold and keep it in a nice safe deposit box, but times are never normal, and the government does not have dozens of programs focused on public-private partnerships to make more gold, government backed loans to buy gold, and define percentage of goldowners as a bean counting metric goal which somehow implies success.
Something to think about is all countries sell citizenship rights some more explicitly than others, but all do it, and going rate in the 1st world is about a half million on the balance sheet of a new company, and all you need to do is form a SMLLC and have it purchase the million dollar condo, then you're in on an investment visa and its pretty easy to prove your corporation has an asset of a million bucks, its right there in the tax records. Now the government hopes that people who come in on an entrepreneur VISA actually open a real business, but its hard to prove who's a real businessman vs an incompetent businessman, so anyone going thru the documented motions gets in. Anyway at least some million dollar empty condos are the visual manifestation of the weirdest naturalization ritual in the history of humanity. All countries have wide open visa policies if you're a businessmen willing to invest a large enough amount of money, all of them.