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October 22, 2012, Bangkok, Thailand [Editor’s note: Tim Staermose, Sovereign Man’s Chief Investment Strategist, is filling in for Simon today.] When it comes to investing in Asia, the two countries which soak up the vast majority of investment chatter are India and China. And with good reason, they’re the two
October 19, 2012, Bangkok, Thailand One major assault against liberty over the last two years has been the steady erosion of online privacy. From Obama’s ‘kill switch’, to ACTA, SOPA and PIPA, to stasi tactics against people like Kim Dotcom, hardly a month goes by without some major action against
October 18, 2012, Bangkok, Thailand “Wherever you may be in the world, you will feel the unstoppable force of a new Asia.” So goes the advertising platform for DBS, the largest bank in Southeast Asia. These people know -exactly- what’s happening right now: wealth and power are shifting East. This
October 16, 2012, Pattaya, Thailand I’m one of those idiots who pays into a health insurance plan month after month, year after year, and never goes to the doctor. In fact, I’ve had my current plan for years without ever filing a claim. The only reason to have it is
October 15, 2012, Bangkok, Thailand [Editor’s note: Today’s letter is an excerpt from the edition of Sovereign Confidential that will be published this afternoon.] Let’s step away from the noise for a moment and look at the big picture. This isn’t about doom and gloom, or fear, but objective facts.
October 12, 2012 Frankfurt, Germany Along with gold, silver has been considered money for thousands of years. In ancient Rome, for example, the silver Denarius coin was first minted in the third century BC. It contained about 4.5 grams of silver and would have a metal value worth roughly $5
October 10, 2012 Madrid, Spain It takes all of three seconds on the ground in Spain to realize that this country is hurting. Big time. I was just here three months ago, eight or nine months before that. Each time it seems worse– more strikes, more homeless, more unemployed, more
4 Ways To Store Value and Protect Your Wealth AUTHOR PUBLISHED The dollars in your bank account lose about 2% of their value to inflation every year. But the way 2020 has been going, the inflation rate could soon become a lot worse, seriously eroding the value of your
October 5, 2012 Santiago, Chile You just can’t make this stuff up. Late last week, a bill HR 6566 was introduced on the floor of the US House of Representatives. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read it. The bill is entitled the “Mass Fatality Planning and Religious Considerations
October 4, 2012 Santiago, Chile “Corruptissima republica plurimae leges. [The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.]” -Tacitus, the Annals ca. AD 69 The nature of what is ‘legal’ has become a truly bizarre concept these days. Developed nations of the west have hundreds of thousands of pages
October 3, 2012 Bali, Indonesia In the investment world, it’s said that the best remedy for high prices is… high prices. And the best remedy for low prices is… low prices. In other words, when the price of an asset is high, demand cools off until prices fall. When the
October 2, 2012 Santiago, Chile Here are a few interesting tidbits to chew on: 1) In the land of the free, there are now more than 760 incarcerated inmates for every 100,000 citizens. This is more than 5x the 1980 average, and it far surpasses the number (560 per 100,000) that Stalin threw in the […]
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