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June 7, 2013 Maule Region, Chile For some, it’s hard to even fathom… as if the headlines were ripped from the Onion instead of Atlas Shrugged or 1984: NSA Is Wired Into Top Internet Companies’ Servers, Including Google and Facebook NSA reportedly collecting phone records of millions Former NSA head
June 6, 2013 Jakarta, Indonesia [Editor’s note: Tim Staermose, Sovereign Man’s Chief Investment Strategist, is filling in today while Simon is looking at agricultural property in Chile.] It’s always a bit amusing to meet an investor making money in the markets right now who actually thinks it’s because he’s smarter
June 5, 2013 Santiago, Chile It’s really great to be back in Chile. Despite being early winter on this side of the earth, the weather in Santiago is still perfect. It’s a bright, beautiful, sunny day with fresh snow blanketing the nearby mountain peaks. My friends tell me that the
June 4, 2013 New York City Greetings from New York. Or, New York’s JFK airport, rather. Having just been fondled by a government agent (who commented rather saucily that I’m ‘in top form’ as he molested me), I’m now comfortably settled in the lounge awaiting my flight to Chile whilst
May 31, 2013 New York City About once or twice a month for the past few years, it’s been a steady ritual of mine to conduct a Google search for the words “all-time high” and “all-time low”. The results provide an interesting big picture perspective on what’s happening in the
May 30, 2013 New York City Anytime a free market guy rails against central planning and socialism, there is always someone who stands up and says “what about Sweden?” Ah, Sweden… a socialist’s paradise… a place where taxes are among the highest in the world, few people are wealthy, and
May 29, 2013 Sarasota, Florida, USA In the largest such case ever brought by the US federal government, the Department of Treasury shut down virtual currency provider Liberty Reserve yesterday as a ‘primary money laundering concern.’ If you’re not familiar with Liberty Reserve, it was a Costa Rica-based platform that
May 28, 2013 Sarasota, Florida, USA Last month at our event in Santiago, Ron Paul told me that he used to keep a sign on his desk during his time in Congress that read: “Don’t steal. The government hates competition.” These days, perhaps a more appropriate saying would be– “Don’t
May 27, 2013 Dallas, Texas, USA Today is the Memorial Day holiday in the Land of the Free. Curiously, this is the day that the federal government sets aside for citizens to reflect on the sacrifices made by soldiers throughout history to ‘preserve our freedoms.’ At least, that’s what we’re
May 24, 2013 Dallas, Texas, USA Years ago as a young intelligence officer, I served a stint in Saudi Arabia running a team of counter-terrorism analysts and agents. We used to have regular “threat working groups,” a fancy way of saying we would get together at the US Embassy for
May 23, 2013 Dallas, Texas, USA Last week when I arrived to Bangladesh, the immigration officials there were positively ecstatic to see a foreign tourist entering the country. I’ve also been to places in Africa and the South Pacific where you’re greeted upon arrival by dancing tribespeople singing songs of
May 22, 2013 London, England [Tim Price, frequent Sovereign Man contributor and Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management, is filling in for Simon today.] James Montier’s bible on behavioural finance, ‘Behavioural investing’, points out two recent discoveries by neuroscientists that have relevance to all investors: 1) We are hard-wired
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