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August 21, 2013 Spoleto, Italy Each summer, I’ve taken to renting a beautiful wine and olive estate in the Italian countryside and inviting some of the most interesting people I know for a week of lively discussion and debate. It’s an annual ritual I’ve recently adopted; there’s no format, just
August 20, 2013 Rome, Italy It was just last week in the Land of the Free that a Federal judge declared Bitcoin to be a currency. And almost immediately after, the SEC announced ‘investigations’ into the digital currency. (You remember the SEC, the guys who are tasked with protecting the
On August 19th, 43 BC, 2056 years ago to the day, a twenty year old soldier born Gaius Octavius Thurinus assumed control of the most powerful civilization on the planet. Standing in front of his Army that he had just marched into Rome, Gaius forced the Senate to ‘elect’ him
Capital controls are the ultimate ‘smoking gun’ to evidence the complete collapse of an insolvent government. Only the most desperate governments have to restrict the free-flow of capital across their borders. And once they hit, you know the endgame is near. Capital controls can take a variety of forms… often
[Editor’s note: Darren Kaiser, author of Sovereign Man’s Chile Property Investment Black Paper, is filling in for Simon today from Santiago, Chile.] Chile has been a pretty nice place to be over the last few years, not just to live but also as an investment destination. Anyone involved in startup
[Editor’s note: While Simon is tied up for the next few days, we’re sending out some of the most popular archives from the past four years of Sovereign Man. This column was originally published in 2012.] It wasn’t too long ago that renowned scholars invested their entire professional lives studying
August 12, 2013 Makarska, Croatia This one is too ridiculous to not pass along. I’ve long written that desperate governments try to ‘control’ everything as they slide into insolvency. They impose capital controls, exchange controls, wage and price controls, gun controls, border controls, and more. But the government of Argentina
August 9, 2013 Makarska, Croatia It just never stops. Here on the European continent, the bureaucrats who run the EU have recently proven to the world how much a ‘government guarantee’ is really worth. We’ve been discussing in this column lately how the modern banking system is a total fraud–
August 8, 2013 Makarska, Croatia A massive 1,131 individuals renounced their US citizenship last quarter, according to data that has yet to be officially released (though I was able to procure an advanced copy). This is a HUGE jump. Compared to the same quarter last year in which 188 people
August 7, 2013 Makarska, Croatia I recently received some disturbing news that I felt critical to pass on to you. As we’ve been writing for over four years now, it’s long been a common approach for government sliding into insolvency to confiscate wealth from their own citizens. Charles I of
August 6, 2013 Makarska, Croatia One of the great privileges I’ve had each year for the last several years is hosting several dozen energetic young minds in the Lithuanian countryside for our annual Liberty and Entrepreneurship camp. This year’s camp just finished yesterday, and it was an amazing experience… the
August 2, 2013 Trakai, Lithuania In any discussion about privacy, there’s invariably someone who says, “Well, if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.” What a bunch of baloney. This may be one of the most ignorant statements ever uttered yet it’s held by a wide majority
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