222: Innovative Living: How Expats Benefit from Special Economic Zones and Private Cities
The Expat Money Show - With Mikkel Thorup
Special Economic Zones - What's Crazy About China?
Over 90 or 92% of Chinese municipalities are either inside a special economic zone or have a zone inside them. They recently just made the whole island of Hainan into a zone, the entire place. So they have not only stuff for business, but also for tourism and for people living there. The personal income tax rate now is reduced to 15%.
- Thibault shares a mythical legend about economic zones.
- Francisco explains the philosophy behind free cities.
- Peter talks to us about why more countries don't go the free city route, how to go about instituting them & challenges along the way.
- Francisco talks about Prospera in detail and about the battle vs government.
- Patri gives us an update on Honduras and looks into future projects.
- Thibault discusses how zones are spread out across the globe.
- Peter tells us about corrupt countries and how to penetrate them with free cities.
- Patri talks about the power of exiting and voting with your feet and what needs to be done going forward.
- Francisco tells us the actions you can take to increase freedom with special economic zones.
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214: Stacking Laws Like LEGO Blocks To Secure Your Freedom – Patri Friedman 210: How To Use Special Economic Zones -Thibault Serlet 202: What Is A Startup City? – Francisco Litvay 192: Building Free Private Cities Around The World - Peter YoungCONCLUSION
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