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July 20, 2015 London, England [Editor’s note: Tim Price, London-based wealth manager and editor of Price Value International, is filling in while Simon travels to Europe.] History and convention tell us that bonds are the ‘safest’ investments in the world. Yet it is the crowning irony of the current financial
Hanoi, Vietnam July 17, 2015 As Europe burns, Puerto Rico sinks, and China violently gyrates, it’s nice to know there are still some exciting bright spots of growth in the world. Vietnam is certainly one of them. The first thing you should know about Vietnam is that it’s a really
July 16, 2015 Kunming, China “The first form of culture,” wrote historian Will Durant, “is agriculture.” And he was right. When human beings discovered 10,000 years ago that the soil would provide more food than they could possibly eat, this changed everything. For the first time ever, early humans could
July 15, 2015 Kunming, Yunnan province, China It’s here in southwestern China’s postcard-perfect Yunnan province that the mighty Mekong River rises. From its source in a nearby mountain range, the river proceeds south, cutting its way across Southeast Asia’s fertile lands through Burma, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia. The Mekong
July 13, 2015 Yangon, Burma Have you ever walked into a restaurant and seen a table full of people staring at their phones instead of talking to the real live human beings across from them? That used to never happen in Yangon… simply because no one had mobile phones. It
July 13, 2015 London, England [Editor’s note: This letter comes from Tim Price, London-based wealth manager and frequent Sovereign Man contributor.] “Nobody knows anything.” That was famed Hollywood producer William Goldman’s sardonic assessment of the movie business in his classic memoir ‘Adventures in the screen trade’. In finance, things are
July 10, 2015 Hong Kong Spontaneous combustion. Alien invasion. Zombie apocalypse. What do these have in common? Their likelihood is next to impossible. So why worry? This is how people tend to think about the financial system. Mentioning even the possibility, for example, that the US could default on its
July 9, 2015 Hong Kong It’s eerily befitting that at this very second, all of South China is frantically anticipating a major storm bearing down on the region. In this part of the world they call them typhoons, which comes from the Chinese ‘tai fung’, meaning ‘strong wind’. And strong
July 9, 2015 Hong Kong Standing before the European Parliament yesterday, it took Nigel Farage just four minutes to completely destroy every argument supporting the Eurozone. A few years back when he spoke at one of our Sovereign Man events in Santiago, he anticipated everything that we’re seeing right now.
July 8, 2015 Manila, Philippines Thousands of years ago in Ancient Greece, it was a commonly held belief that the gods walked the earth among us humans. And that perhaps even Zeus himself might show up at your doorstep disguised as a vagabond. From this sprang the legendary sense of
July 7, 2015 London, England [Editor’s note: Tim Price, London-based wealth manager and frequent Sovereign Man contributor, is filling in for Simon today.] History, wrote John W. Campbell Jr., doesn’t always repeat itself. Sometimes it just screams, “Why don’t you listen to me?” and lets fly with a big stick.
July 7, 2015 Hong Kong [Editor’s Note: This missive was penned by Tim Staermose, Sovereign Man’s Chief Investment Strategist.] The Chinese stock market bubble is bursting. And the government is hitting the panic button. Having actively encouraged the bubble with cheap money, lax margin loan regulations, and constant cheerleading and
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