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A few months ago I sent you a note explaining that major gold discoveries are shrinking. Simply put, mining companies are no longer finding vast, new deposits of gold to replace their aging mines. I quoted Pierre Lassonde, the billionaire founder of gold royalty giant Franco-Nevada and former head of
Exactly ten years ago, in the middle of the summer of 2008, the world was only two months away from the most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the time, the size of the US economy as measured by Gross Domestic product was around $14.8 trillion– by far
You would think New Jersey would have learned its lesson… Two years ago, New Jersey’s richest resident – hedge fund billionaire David Tepper – decided to move himself and his business to Miami Beach. Tepper, who personally earned more than $6 billion from 2012-2015, was tired of paying New Jersey’s
Today I just wanted to send you a quick note to highlight a great example of a company that’s using Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to solve a real-world problem. I thought this would be important given that most of the noise in the crypto space these days is still almost
On March 29, 1879, a widely circulated newspaper called the American Register published a scathing editorial stating that “it is doubtful if electricity will ever be [widely] used” because it was too expensive to generate. Several months later, the Select Committee on Lighting and Electricity in the British House of
What I’m about to tell you is a true story that highlights just how pathetic the banking system has become. A few months ago I was presented with a compelling opportunity to invest with a prominent, well-established private business based in the UK. And, after extensive due diligence, I decided
It’s considered the worst merger in history. Back in January 2000, AOL bought Time Warner for $162 billion, which was considered an astonishing amount of money back then. Their goal was to create a tech/media giant. And they failed miserably. Time Warner was having a difficult time establishing an online
In the year 6 AD, the Roman emperor Augustus set up a special trust fund known as the aerarium militare, or military treasury, to fund retirement pensions for Rome’s legionnaires. Now, these military pensions had already existed for several centuries in Rome. But the money to pay them had always
By the time Louis XIV passed away in 1715, seven decades of his absurd extravagance had nearly bankrupted France. His reign was marked by constant warfare and the most excessive spending imaginable, from opulent palaces (including Versailles) to a costly welfare state– public hospitals, parks, monuments, museums. Louis XIV had
It’s hard to imagine, but today is actually Sovereign Man’s 9th birthday. Nine years ago, on June 19, 2009, I sent out the first ever Notes from the Field email. To commemorate the occasion, I thought I’d republish that first article… because I think it still captures the challenges we
On January 23, 1995, President Bill Clinton signed into law a piece of legislation that had been almost unanimously approved by both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives. It was called the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995– CAA. The idea behind the CAA was to force Congress
Earlier this week while most of the world was transfixed on the World Cup, the Trump/Kim handshake, or a multitude of other sundry events, Julius Malema, aka the Hitler of South Africa, was busy telling white people in his country that he’s not going wage genocide against them. Yet. In
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