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April 14, 2015 Santiago, Chile 70 years ago, the United States of America had just emerged from World War II as the most dominant superpower in the world. At that point America’s economy was the only one left standing. And the US government had essentially dictated terms in establishing a
April 13, 2015 Santiago, Chile On March 16, 1936, the government of the United States published the very first edition of the Federal Register. President Roosevelt had been taking a lot of heat over the previous year; under his New Deal program, dozens of government agencies were passing new rules,
April 10, 2015 Panama City, Panama After an incredibly pleasant week in Medellin, I departed this morning for Panama where the capital city’s already notoriously painful traffic has become a parking lot in the wake of the Summit of the Americas. Leaders from most of the Western Hemisphere are here
April 8, 2015 Medellín, Colombia About a week ago after having one of those days, I felt like unwinding by turning off the world and tuning in to some mindless action flick. Netflix heeded the call and immediately served up 1994’s Clear and Present Danger starring a slightly younger Harrison
April 7, 2015 En Route to Colombia Despite being an otherwise staid, traditional news service, the professional banking division of the Financial Times recently released an utterly scathing assessment of the British economy. It was entitled, “The UK economy is a ticking time bomb,” and the editor didn’t pull any
April 6, 2015 Santiago, Chile Last week, the government of China closed the enrollment window to join its new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as a ‘founding member’. The AIIB, if you haven’t heard of this yet, is designed to essentially displace the Western-controlled IMF and World Bank. And prior
April 2, 2015 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile Every few centuries or so, an amazing new technology comes along that fundamentally changes human civilization. There are so many other examples throughout history. The Agricultural Revolution. The Industrial Revolution. The invention of the printing press. The printing press was a particularly interesting
April 1, 2015 Santiago, Chile Several months ago, the government of Australia proposed to tax bank deposits up to $250,000 at a rate of 0.05% (5 basis points). Their idea was for the money to be invested in a rainy day Financial Stabilization Fund to insure against in the unlikely
March 31, 2015 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile Yesterday we discussed the utter insanity of the debt-based education system—the trillion+ dollar explosion of student loans out there that may very well be the next bubble to burst. It’s a completely ridiculous system which saddles 22-year olds with tens of thousands of
March 30, 2015 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile What I’m about to tell you is not my own opinion or even analysis. It’s original data that comes from the United States Federal Reserve and national credit bureaus. 40 million Americans are now in debt because of their university education, and on
March 26, 2015 Santiago, Chile If there’s one lesson we can learn from the 20th century it’s that we should be suspicious of a government that actively tries to disarm its population. When the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia one of the first things they did was set
March 25, 2015 Santiago, Chile Now it’s Austria, Switzerland, and Australia that have joined dozens of other countries around the world in the anti-dollar alliance. These nations, which also include most US ‘allies’ in Western Europe like Germany, France and the UK, have all signed on to be founding members
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