Innovation Doesn’t Require a Track Record; it Requires Conviction

In 2022, Canadian banks froze 206 bank accounts on the grounds they participated in an illegal protest, and no judge signed off on the procedure. Asset freezes like this are spreading across Western banking, yet only a handful of jurisdictions add a judicial process for proper due process. One of t…

Kuwait has stripped citizenship from more than 71,000 people since August 2024, by one independent count. Japan bans dual citizenship too and has never acted against an estimated 700,000 dual citizens. IMI covers which countries enforce their dual citizenship bans, from India's self-enforcing …

IMI's review of more than 100 countries and territories found only eight places that charge no annual property tax on a home. They range from Monaco and Malta to the Cayman Islands and the Gulf. In New Jersey, the average owner pays 1.88% of a home's value every year. IMI covers what the …

Thirty billionaires left Norway in a single year. The government's answer was to build a fiscal Berlin Wall. In 2022, Norway raised its wealth tax to one of the highest levels in the West. More billionaires and millionaires left within a year, more than in the previous 13 years combined. Yet w…