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There is an article here, detailing what is apparently the world’s most expensive hat, and it’s being sold for around £60,000.

If you like that kind of had, it looks rather nice I suppose – but whether it’s £60,000 nice, I don’t know. The hats are not named after the place of origin (it is called the Panama hat), but their point of international sale – although they became fashionable when people picked them up en masse as they sailed along the Panama Canal.

If you’re selling that hat, but even more so if you’re in a position to buy one, I would imagine that you’re probably the sort of person that can wake up one morning, eat your finest breakfast and drink your fresh coffee, before deciding on a whim to invest in Panama real estate, even if you don’t currently live in Panama. It would be an interesting place to go on holiday, at the very least, with your brand new expensive Panama hat.

Certainly you could have a lot of fun, if you were into investments of any kind. If money can’t buy happiness, it can certainly open a lot of doors; and investing, if you invest well, is a door worth having open, I would imagine. You can even continue it as a nice hobby on the side, living in Panama, with things like offshore financial service that a lot of banks are providing now.

Or perhaps you can make do with a cheaper hat, and a cheaper destination for property investment.