Building Wealth Like a Beltway Insider

You don't have to engage in petty crime in Naples, Florida if you want to make real money. You just have to know the tricks of the people who run the United States

How to Build Wealth Like a D.C. Beltway Insider

Dear Fellow Expat:

“Rosalia” was a famous Naples, Florida entrepreneur.

In 2021, in the wake of COVID, when cash was flush and equity valuations didn’t matter, Rosalia took out ads in our local Spanish-language newspapers and radio stations. Handwritten flyers popped up at laundromats.

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You couldn’t miss them.

She offered “spiritual/witchcraft services” to address problems up to and including spousal disagreements. The ads featured a “100% guarantee” that promised results.

She told one client that had something “dark in his life” as she flipped over fateful Tarot cards. She ordered him to sleep with three eggs under his bed, and then bring the eggs back to her.

When she opened the eggs, one was filled with blood, the other with needles, and the third with worms.

There was “still darkness,” she said.

To cure that darkness, she told him to gather every dollar he had, borrow from friends, and ask relatives for cash. In all, she promised to take t…