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March 28, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile How do you define wealth? Most people think of wealth as represented by numbers on a bank account statement. That’s not really what wealth is, however. Having lots of ‘money’ doesn’t equate to being wealthy. It only means you have a large quantity
March 27, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile Today just happens to be the 160th anniversary of Britain and France’s declaration of war on Russia in what would eventually become known as the Crimean War. Part 1. At the time, Russia was a rising power. By the 1850s, Tsar Nicholas I
March 26, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile Every organization has a unique way of measuring its own success. Apple tracks very closely, for example, how many iPhones and iPads they sell. Facebook monitors how many total users they have. And for the brand new Cyber Crime Unit (CCU) of the
March 26, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile Bitcoin tax rules finally came to the Land of the Free yesterday. And I have to imagine there are some not-too-happy campers this morning, if they even know about it. Bitcoin taxes were inevitable. I’ve written about this numerous times, and have even
By the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire had become a has-been power whose glory days as the world’s superpower were well behind them. They had been supplanted the French, the British, and the Russian empires in all matters of economic, military, and diplomatic strength. Much of this was due to
March 24, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile When it comes to investing money, there’s no such thing as a sure thing. Even the ‘safest’ investment in the world (US Treasuries) is anything but safe. I mean… on what planet does it make sense to loan your hard-earned cash to the
March 24, 2014 Bali, Indonesia Palladium is like the Rodney Dangerfield of precious metals. It never gets any respect. If you ask someone about precious metals, in fact, just about everyone has heard of gold and silver. And occasionally platinum. But palladium is one of those obscure precious metals that
A few months ago, I told you about a bold report published within the IRS that absolutely blasted the agency’s mafia tactics. In its 2013 annual report to Congress, the Office of the Taxpayer Advocate wrote that the IRS shows “disrespect for the law and a disregard for taxpayer rights.”
As any long-time reader of this column knows, we routinely draw from historical lessons to highlight that this time is not different. Throughout the 18th century, for example, France was the greatest superpower in Europe, if not the world. But they became complacent, believing that they had some sort of
March 19, 2014 Santiago, Chile Truth can be a damn difficult thing to digest sometimes. Some of us have been there. You get that news from the doctor that you, or a loved one, has just been diagnosed with a serious disease, and it hits you like a ton of
Forget tapering. Forget Ukraine. The largest single risk to the world economy and financial markets right now is China. What’s going on in China reminds me a lot of what I witnessed firsthand when I lived in South Korea in the 1990s, before that economy’s crash in 1998. Just as
It was almost exactly one year ago to the day that an entire nation was frozen out of its savings… overnight. Cypriots went to bed on Friday thinking everything was fine. By the next morning, they had no way to pay bills or buy food. It’s certainly a chilling reminder
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