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Spoleto, Italy August 28, 2015 Charles Dickens opened his 1859 masterpiece A Tale of Two Cities with one of the most famous introductions in literary history: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… “ This line is notoriously incomprehensible to high school students around the
August 26, 2015 Spoleto, Italy It couldn’t be any more beautiful here. Every year we descend upon the Umbrian countryside here in Italy, about 2 hours northeast of Rome for a retreat. It’s a time and place reserved to foster relationships with friends, colleagues, and members of our Sovereign Man
August 25, 2015 Spoleto, Italy [Editor’s note: This letter was written by Tim Price, frequent contributor to Sovereign Man’s Notes from the Field, and editor of Price Value International.] Hundreds of thousands of years ago, our early ancestors had a unique way of dealing with volatility. If something was truly
August 21, 2015 Rome, Italy For at least the last decade, China has been positioning the renminbi to take over as the world’s reserve currency. Over the years they’ve gradually established credibility for the currency on world markets, and have begun strategically chipping away at the institutions cementing the US
August 21, 2015 Rome, Italy I grew up in Texas in a middle class household to two very hard-working parents. And to say we were middle class may even be a stretch. We were definitely clinging to the bottom rung of middle class. Money was always a problem. And my
August 20, 2015 Rome, Italy If I wrote down the term ‘imaginary number’, you’d probably think I was talking about some central bank economic forecast or government budget projection. But in mathematical parlance, an imaginary number is defined as the square root of a negative number. You know that the
Paris, France August 19, 2015 Earlier today I had a great meeting with a government minister in Antigua, who’d phoned to update me on their economic citizenship program. If you’re not familiar, an economic citizenship is a legal process backed by formal legislation whereby an investor can make a large
August 17, 2015 Paris, France Deep within one of the darkened parking garages of Terminal 1 at Charles de Gaulle airport, there’s an attractive young French girl who’s desperately trying to manage an entire fleet of rental cars by herself. She’s basically the only person working the garage for one
Istanbul, Turkey August 13, 2015 Four years ago, just as he was about to board a flight to Hong Kong, Ai Wei Wei was stopped by border officials and had his passport confiscated. As an outspoken anti-government activist, the Chinese artist was no stranger to government threats. But this time
August 12, 2015 Istanbul, Turkey As the saying goes, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” (… to which George W. Bush famously added after flubbing the aphorism on live TV, “can’t fool me again!”) For months, despite every shred of data pointing to a
August 11, 2015 Istanbul, Turkey When I was a kid, I ‘accidentally’ lit my parent’s living room carpet on fire. A friend of theirs had been over the night before and left his cigarette lighter on the coffee table. And as I had never seen such magical technology before as
August 10, 2015 Bali, Indonesia [Editor’s note: Sovereign Man’s Chief Investment Strategist Tim Staermose is filling in today while Simon is teaching at his annual youth entrepreneurship workshop.] In 1970, one United States dollar bought 360 Japanese yen. It also bought 363 Indonesian rupiah. Today, that same dollar buys just
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