Blog Entries tagged 'blog'

Panning for Gold in the Baby Boom

tom@puebloverde.org — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:00:00 +0100

"The hunt begins for the foreign retiree"-Headline, La Republica

In mid-February, at the national level, Costa Rica launched a high profile initiative. To the fanfare of articles in national papers, a special government edict, web articles and enthusiastic reverberations through the real estate blogosphere, a plan was unveiled to promote retirement communities for some of the 60 million baby boomers who are starting to sail off into their golden [...]

On Pyramids and Pura Vida

tom@puebloverde.org — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:00:00 +0100

The greatest force in the universe is the power of compound interest--Einstein

Call it Blowback.'

I recently read a piece on US foreign policy where an analyst used the term to describe what's happening in the Middle East. He boiled it down to the nitty gritty.

After more than a half-century of treating a whole [...]

Cloning Winnie

tom@puebloverde.org — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:00:00 +0100

If you want to change the world, change yourself--Ghandi

A good friend recently wrote me that she had gone to see the new film on global warming by Al Gore. Her reaction was succinct "we're screwed-the world, that is..."

The next week she and her husband flew across the US to attend a wedding-and back. Depending on the type of aircraft and th [...]