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December 16, 2013 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile Though still a week shy of its centennial anniversary, the US Federal Reserve will hold a celebration this afternoon in Washington DC. (They’re even live-streaming it… http://www.ustream.tv/federalreserve) Just imagine the scene– a bunch of current and former central bankers slapping each other on
I’ve been in Chile now again for the past few weeks, and I’m really glad to be back. There’s lots of exciting stuff going on here, but today I want to tell you about a new way of obtaining residency in Chile that I’ve recently discovered. This is hot off
December 13, 2013 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile One of the things we talk about routinely in this column is the fraudulent nature of the global monetary system. When you step back and look at the big picture, it seems ludicrous. We have essentially awarded totalitarian control of our money supply
We’ve reported several times before that Hong Kong is one of the cheapest places in the world to buy gold. But the bottom line is that it’s getting a bit more difficult to do so. At ………………. Bank, for example,they will now only sell a maximum of HK$120,000 (about US$15,400) worth ofgold coins to non-account holders. This
December 12, 2013 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile The IMF just dropped another bombshell. After it recently suggested a “one-off capital levy” – a one-time tax on private wealth as an exceptional measure to restore debt sustainability across insolvent countries – it has now called for “revenue-maximizing top income tax rates”.
December 11, 2013 Santiago, Chile Earlier this week, Start-Up Chile announced the next round of new businesses who have been accepted to the program. If you’re not familiar with it, Start-Up Chile is a government program that provides $40,000 in equity-free seed capital (plus a residency visa) to entrepreneurs and
Here’s something that almost nobody knows about. And it’s an important topic. If you’re a US taxpayer, you know that the Foreign Bank Account Report or FBAR is one of the numerous forms from a stack of compliance documents that the US government demands. We’ve talked at length about it
December 10, 2013 London, England [Editor’s Note: Tim Price, Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management and frequent Sovereign Man contributor is filling in for Simon today.] For practitioners of Schadenfreude, seeing high-profile investors losing their shirts is always amusing. But for the true connoisseur, the finest expression of the
December 9, 2013 Santiago, Chile Mohamed Bouazizi. It’s not a name that means much to most people. But you’ll recall his story. Frustrated with the absurd amount of regulation and corruption that prevented him from being able to put food on the table for his family, Bouazizi was the 26-year
December 5, 2013 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile This morning I woke up bright and early to participate via the Internet in a live auction that was being held halfway across the world. The Hong Kong branch of Spink & Son, a British firm originally founded in the mid-1600s, was putting
On the other side of the world today, a couple of gentlemen that few people have ever heard of signed an agreement that has massive consequences for the global financial system. It was a Memorandum of Understanding signed by representatives of the Singapore Exchange and Hong Kong Exchange. Their aim–
December 3, 2013 Santiago, Chile At this point, you’d pretty much have to be living under a rock to have not heard of Bitcoin. I actually asked this question (‘have you been living under a rock?) to someone recently who proudly proclaimed that he had never heard of Bitcoin, almost
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