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April 30, 2015 En route from Mexico City, Mexico I’m certainly a proponent of taking advantage of everything the world has to offer. This includes looking for nice places all over the world. I love spending time in Thailand, Italy, Chile, Croatia, Brazil… But sometimes we forget what’s in our
April 29, 2015 Mexico City, Mexico Kim Dotcom is a giant in many senses of the word. As the founder of file sharing website Mega Upload, he brazenly thumbed his nose at every international copyright law in existence. He spent his fortune lavishly on the quintessential playboy lifestyle that most
April 28, 2015 Cancun, Mexico One of my favorite historians is a guy named Will Durant. Durant is unfortunately no longer with us, but he and his wife Ariel made history more interesting than all the soap operas my mother used to watch when I was a kid. I thought
April 27, 2015 Cancun, Mexico What an incredible experience. We just spent the last three days with 375 of the most interesting people I’ve ever met down here in Cancun. Our Global Offshore and Investment Summit was absolutely jam-packed. And a ton of fun. We were joined by brilliant financial
Cancun, Mexico April 23, 2015 The next time some financial pundit tells you to buy stocks, show them this chart. It’s an incredibly interesting take on not only how expensive stocks are right now, but also how the monetary system has left the average guy behind. The Dow Jones Industrial
In May 1788, Thomas Jefferson wrote one of the most prescient statements of his career: “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.” Jefferson was living in Paris at the time serving as the Minister to France at a time when the United
April 21, 2015 Cancun, Mexico Imagine having a net worth of $57 billion. That sounds like a lot. And for the few folks out there like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Vladimir Putin who have racked up such a prodigious amount, it is a lot. But not if you’re the
April 20, 2015 London, England [Editor’s note: This letter was penned by Tim Price, Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management in the UK.] In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, the Queen would sometimes believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast. She is probably working in the bond
April 20, 2015 En route to Mexico In October 1925, English mathematician Karl Pearson began publishing a multipart series of groundbreaking articles in the Annals of Human Eugenics. The series was entitled, “The Problem of Alien Immigration into Great Britain, Illustrated by an Examination of Russian and Polish Jewish Children,”
April 17, 2015 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile Let’s talk about idiots. Somewhere out there, some absurdly well-paid banker just placed his investors’ capital in yet another financial instrument which is guaranteed to lose money: Australian government debt. 47 investors participated in the Australian government’s $200 million bond tender; the participants
April 16, 2015 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile Walking down the streets of Kalamata, not only had everyone known his name, they’d have offered him a drink and asked about his grandmother’s health. But in New Jersey where he lived, Hector was a nobody. Trading in the warm, sunny coast of
On August 5, 1861, facing rapidly deteriorating economic conditions and a horrible defeat at Bull Run, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Revenue Act of 1861 into law. It was the first time in US history that the federal government would charge an income tax on its citizens. But Lincoln felt
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