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January 8, 2015 Punta Arenas, Chile Frank Bourassa was a hustler. He’d tried every shady deal out there—from marijuana to jacked cars. This was a guy who knew how to make a quick buck. Literally, as it turns out, when he realized one day that with each of these schemes
January 7, 2015 Santiago, Chile It’s been 66 years since George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 was published. In it, Orwell depicts a future where the UK (and the whole world really) descends into a totalitarian regime that’s in a perpetual state of war, propaganda, and persecution. One of the most
January 5, 2015 Santiago, Chile Each year governments around the world seem to compete with one another to come up with the dumbest and worst policies possible. But which one is the stupidest? The competition is indeed tight as there are just so many terrible entries to consider. But my
January 5, 2015 Santiago, Chile In one of the best summations of 2014, and the West in general, English filmmaker Adam Curtis asks some very basic questions of the British economy– questions that really apply to the entire Western World. How is it, for example, that UK Chancellor of the
January 5, 2015 London, England [Editor’s note: Tim Price, London-based wealth manager, is filling in for Simon today.] The start of the New Year is traditionally a time for issuing financial forecasts. But there seems little point in doing so given the impact of widespread financial repression on the price
[Editor’s note: The following note was originally penned by Simon Black on July 2, 2012 from Chisinau, Moldova.] Ah Moldova… the poorest country in Europe, which just so happens to have had a Communist party majority in its parliament since 1998. These two points are not unrelated. Despite having achieved
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