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May 19, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile In the early 16th century, a priest by the name of Fray Francisco de Ugalde remarked to his king that Spain was “el imperio en el que nunca se pone el sol”. In other words, the sun never set on the Spanish Empire.
May 16, 2014 Santiago, Chile I’ve been invited to make a presentation this afternoon to a group of entrepreneurs that have been accepted into the Startup Chile program. Startup Chile is a very attractive program for entrepreneurs; they essentially receive a cash grant, a residency visa in Chile, and a
May 15, 2014 Santiago, Chile According to the Chinese financial publication Securities Daily, emergency real estate rescue packages have been launched in large cities such as Wuxi, Nanning, Hangzhou, Tianjin, Tongling and Zhengzhou in the last month alone. “Zhengzhou created a mortgage guarantee policy to win back banks’ confidence” according
May 14, 2014 Santiago, Chile Last week in the Land of the Free, I heard a radio campaign ad for a local political candidate while in Texas. In the ad, he was talking about the debt and excessive government spending. And then he said something along the lines of, “We
May 9, 2014 Dallas, Texas, USA Did you ever hear the urban legend about how Winston Churchill carved up a map of Africa in a drunken stupor? There’s actually no evidence to support this assertion. But what is true is that European imperialists conjured entire nations in Africa out of
May 8, 2014 Dallas, Texas, USA Remember all of those credit card and loan offers you used to receive in the mail? Bad credit? No credit? No problem. 0% APR for the first six months. Free balance transfers. No money down. And my personal favorite– no credit check. These were
May 7, 2014 Dallas, Texas, USA Imagine for a moment that you have a neighbor who is in debt up to his eyeballs. This guy is flat broke. He’s racked up six figures worth of consumer debt wasted on worthless knick-knacks. About the only thing he has of any value
May 6, 2014 London, England [Editor’s note: Tim Price, frequent Sovereign Man contributor and Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management is filling in for Simon today.] “If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I would use the first 55 minutes
May 5, 2014 New York City You might not realize it, but today is a very important date. Yes, of course, it’s Cinco de Mayo. But possibly more important, it’s also the deadline for banks around the world to sign up for information-sharing agreements with the IRS. Think about it
May 2, 2014 New York City 20 years in prison. That’s the penalty you could face for travelling to a country the President has labelled to be “of concern”. Sending any form of monetary assistance to people in the country merits further steep penalties. Recently introduced in Congress, ‘The International
May 1, 2014 Buenos Aires, Argentina It was a scene just like out of the Wild West. 18-year-old David Moreyra had stolen a purse. And an angry mob gathered in broad daylight in Rosario, Argentina to lynch him. It turns out that ‘mob justice’ is on the rise in Argentina,
April 30, 2014 Santiago, Chile Steve Jobs used to tell a very inspiring story about an article he read in Scientific American when he was a boy: He said that the article measured the ‘efficiency of locomotion’ of various species– essentially how many calories different animals spend getting from Point
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