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May 7, 2012 Asuncion, Paraguay Long-time readers know that I’m unabashedly bullish on agriculture. The supply and demand fundamentals for food speak for themselves, but let’s briefly review: On the demand side: 1) World population isn’t getting any smaller for now. Even some of the most Malthusian models show a continued rise in
May 4, 2012 Santiago, Chile Tomorrow morning, an expected 30,000 faithful Berkshire Hathaway shareholders will file into the CenturyLink Center in downtown Omaha to hear their leader wax philosophically on just about every topic imaginable. You have to give credit where credit is due: Warren Buffett is damn good at
May 3, 2012 Hong Kong One of the most important habits of highly successful investors is that, when market conditions call for it, they have the ability to sit on their butts and do absolutely nothing. Great investors wait patiently for the next slam-dunk opportunity to present itself. They do not jeopardize their
May 2, 2012 Santiago, Chile Stephen King (yes, that Stephen King) is fired up. Angry. Furious. Why? Because he doesn’t get to pay enough income tax. It’s not enough that King could simply write a check, voluntarily, to the government. He wants to make sure that -everyone- is forcibly coerced
May 1, 2012 Santiago, Chile Friedrich von Hayek, a major figure in the Austrian school of economics, wrote in his seminal work the Road to Serfdom, “By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism
April 30, 2012 London, England [Editor’s note: Tim Price, a frequent Sovereign Man contributor and Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management in London, is filling in for Simon today.] In a week that saw Britain slide into its first double-dip recession since 1975, we quite fittingly also saw evidence of the sort
“Should we crawl into bed with the IRS?” Thanks to the steady barrage of US government regulation ranging from the obtusely insipid Dodd-Frank financial reform to the impossible-to-implement Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), banks everywhere have to make this decision. In short, Congress has arrogantly passed legislation to control foreign banks on foreign
April 25, 2012 Santiago, Chile I was approached recently by a member of our Sovereign Man community who filed the paperwork to relinquish US citizenship some time ago. Long story short, after an incomprehensibly long wait, the US government finally sent him a reply: Application DENIED. Absolutely shocking. That you even have to
Citizenship By DescentLearn how you can get a valuable Second Passport & Citizenship By Descent… AUTHOR LAST UPDATED If you’ve got parents, grandparents (and in some cases even great-grandparents) from Italy, Ireland, or several other European countries, you may be part of what I call ‘the lucky bloodline club’. In
April 23, 2012 London, England Roy Ward Baker’s 1958 classic film A Night To Remember, recounts the final night of the RMS Titanic based on survivor interviews from Walter Lord’s 1955 book of the same name. One scene from the movie depicts a lounge in one of the upper class quarters of the
April 20, 2012 [Undisclosed location] Here’s a fun way to cap off your week. The Congressional Budget Office has just released three very telling infographics which, unintentionally, spell out a pretty dreary picture of US government finances. The first graphic shows US federal revenue, both in raw numbers ($2.3 trillion in 2011) and
April 19, 2012 Hong Kong One of the defining characteristics of EVERY boom is the presence of a small elite seeking to enrich itself through graft, corruption, and unethical behavior. When the music stops and the boom busts, these same people are frequently put to the sword of public opinion. Think Bernie Madoff,
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