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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 in today’s money.
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 unrest, more storefront
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 money. But real
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 Act,” and its
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
October 1, 2012 Santiago, Chile I want to tell you about a company I’ve recently come across that is shaping up to be one hell of an investment opportunity. Today is the first day of their new fiscal year, and it’s obvious they’re poised for massive growth and huge upside potential. To start off, it’s an
September 28, 2012 Santiago, Chile Well I can say one thing for sure– Sovereign Man readers are really extraordinary people. A few days ago in an email to you, I wrote about all the incredible opportunities I’m seeing on the ground here in Chile, and then mentioned my upcoming plans to open an office and hire
September 27, 2012 Santiago, Chile Last summer, two researchers from the New England Complex Systems Institute published a short paper examining the correlation between rising food prices and civil unrest. It was a timely analysis, to say the least. A number of food riots were occurring throughout the world, not to mention waves of revolution sparked by
September 25, 2012 Santiago, Chile After being away for over four months and traveling through more than 30 countries on four continents, I returned to Chile a few days ago, fortuitously on the first day of spring. Remember, the seasons are flipped in the southern hemisphere, so the spring renewal is everywhere. It’s an interesting metaphor,
September 20, 2012 Flic-en-Flac, Mauritius Situated thousands of miles from the coast of Africa in the middle of the Indian Ocean, Mauritius definitely qualifies as the ‘middle of nowhere.’ This is interesting for a number of reasons– I’ll explain. I’ve long argued that the world is entering a rather tumultuous phase. This isn’t some doom or
September 19, 2012 Hong Kong One of the best short-selling ideas I’ve had over the past year or so was in Fortescue Metals (FMG listed on the Australian Securities Exchange). If you’re unfamiliar with ‘shorting’ a stock, it’s essentially a bet that a company’s price will fall instead of rise. In the case
September 14, 2012 Flic-en-Flac, Mauritius Have you ever noticed how it seems like the public can only handle one major issue at a time? Ten years ago it was terrorism. Then it became the war in Iraq. Then anthropogenic climate change became all the buzz. Then gas prices went through the roof and people forgot all
September 13, 2012 Johannesburg, South Africa The recent troubles in South Africa’s mining sector are unquestionably tragic. People have been shot. Others, jailed. Thousands of people are out of work. Strikes are snowballing across the entire mining sector, and some companies (like Anglo American Platinum and Great Basin Gold) have even shut down their operations in a
September 12, 2012 Cape Town, South Africa Yesterday, news broke that the US government has awarded a whopping $104 million to convicted felon and former inmate Bradley Birkenfeld. It was a big headline and you likely saw the news… but it’s worth a deeper look. Because if there is one story that neatly summarizes what is
September 10, 2012 Franschhoek, Western Cape, South Africa There’s a very dangerous expression we’ve been hearing a lot lately from all corners of the globe, mostly from socialist-leaning politicians and economists who fancy themselves champions of the people. They look at certain tax inequalities like the difference between capital gains rates (tax on investment income) vs. income
