Are you going to work for 45 years, five days a week, or be the master of your activities from now on? You know that my goal is to achieve financial freedom and go to the other side of the barrier, so as an exercise I've been imagining what it would be like living outside the routine of working five days a week, for 8 or 9 hours a day. The weekends would no longer have the same meaning as before. Fridays would not be  "happier" days than the others and I could be working on some weekend,...

French actor Gerard Depardieu has left France to live in Belgium. He has paid 85% in taxes to his country and is moving to enjoy a fairer taxes system. As I said in my Robin Hood syndrome article, they always start by saying: - "Let's tax the rich, the rich are bad and keep all to themselves while there are poor people over there" And then everyone ends up paying more taxes, even old retired people now. The image of France in the world But Depardieu has something of gaulish, there is something...

We are near the end of 2012 and I am reviewing all the positive changes. As for the negative things I take them as lessons from which to learn to move forward more wisely. Take control Or better to say: take responsability. This year we have reduced the negative balance in our bank account to make it disappear. We have decided to just offer chocolate as Christmas gift for the adults. I've been...

We hear about the crisis from years ago. Everyone says it was inevitable and that economy is not an exact science that can be predicted.But it is all about a story of bubbles: the tech bubble, the real state bubble, the speculative credit bubble and finally the bubble of sovereign debt that plagues many countries.I would say that the worst of them is the speculative credit bubble and the excessive debt because it affects everyone: governments, businesses and homes. Gold and currency Fixing the...

Christmas is near. You see blinky lights and colours all around. Santa is ringing the bell and shouting at the door of every shop.Christmas is beautiful for children, it's mean to be for children.Christmas is like Saint Valentine: it should be every day.But marketing brains have chosen one single day of celebration so you could spend all your money on fancy presents.If you need to offer presents and gifts, let them be meaningful gifts of love. Does Merry Christmas mean merry gifts? For some, maybe.Christmas...