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September 30, 2013 Sovereign Valley Farm, Pencahue, Chile Last night I was speaking to a long-time mentor. And he’s unfortunately in very poor health at the moment. Most of his condition is a result of lifestyle choices over the past several decades. Too much junk food. Too much excess. Never
September 27, 2013 San Antonio, Chile “It’s like the 1950s back in the US, but without the Soviets, McCarthyism, or the blatant racism.” That’s how an older gringo friend of mine once described his experiences and lifestyle in Chile. I think he’s spot on. For many westerners, it can really
September 26, 2013 Santiago, Chile This morning I received a research note from a private bank I work with occasionally. Buried in the text was a call for lower gold prices, and the analysts listed five reasons why they think gold prices will decline. Here’s what they had to say:1) “We
September 25, 2013 Sovereign Valley Farm, Pencahue, Chile It goes without saying that parents want the best for their children… and that each generation wishes the next to be even more prosperous and successful. For the most part, this has been the historical pattern since the Industrial Revolution; every successive
September 24, 2013 Pencahue, Chile It’s great to be back in Chile. This place is ripe with so much opportunity. And for the last few days, I’ve been out investigating agricultural investment property in the central regions for my investment portfolio. I’ve been investing heavily in the sector for the
September 23, 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.] “This took guts.” – Comment by Steven Ricchiuto of Mizuho Securities in response to the Federal Reserve’s surprise decision to refrain from “tapering”
September 20, 2013 Santiago, Chile One of those generally accepted truths that most people believe is that banks are safe. We seem to be told this for our entire lives… that banks, in their grandiose buildings and marble floors, are veritable rivers of money. We’re also told that bankers are
September 19, 2013 En route to Chile “Truth. noun. The quality of state of being in accordance with fact or reality.” This is how my dictionary defines truth: it can be ‘fact’. But it can also mean ‘reality’. The people who control the system have figured this out– if they
September 17, 2013 En route to the United States In mathematics, the term ‘linearity’ describes a relationship in which the rate of change for a variable is constant. If you’re driving from Paris to Frankfurt at 100 kilometers per hour, then this is a linear system– your rate of change
September 16, 2013 Tokyo, Japan Suicide has long played a bizarre role in Japanese culture. In feudal Japan, for example, dishonored samurai would often commit seppuku, a suicide ritual that involved ceremonial disembowelment. It was torturous pain lasting for hours. In World War II, the Japanese military churned out suicide
September 13, 2013 Hong Kong Financial circles in Hong Kong are buzzing today on the new Goldman Sachs projection that gold may drop below $1,000 an ounce. And in merely suggesting such a death sentence for the metal, Goldman’s pronouncement pushed the paper price of gold contracts down $20+. Many
September 12, 2013 Hong Kong In the summer of 1956, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, sparking a worldwide crisis. The Suez links the Mediterranean to the rest of the world, and it’s one of the most important maritime thoroughfares in international trade. So this was a
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