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ViaMat Offshore Gold Storage

RED ALERT: World’s biggest gold storage company dumps US citizens

ViaMat, a Swiss logistics company that has been safeguarding precious metals since 1945, is literally the gold standard in secure storage. They have vaults from Switzerland to Hong Kong to Dubai, and they count among their clients some of the largest mining companies in the world. They know what they’re doing. And now

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Do I have to report my offshore gold…?

January 23, 2013 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile Let’s do a little math problem today. As you probably know, in 2010 the US government passed one of the most arrogant, destructive, poorly conceived pieces of legislation in history, now known as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). FATCA heaps all sorts of reporting

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Arbitrage lessons from the most expensive city on Earth

January 9, 2013 Sydney, Australia   [Editor’s note: Sovereign Man Chief Investment Strategist Tim Staermose is filling in for Simon today.] No matter where you live in the Western world right now, the sands of your local economic landscape are likely shifting. To gain your footing, it’s essential to learn classic arbitrage techniques.

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I can’t think of a better investment than this

December 7, 2012 7th Region, Chile It seems these days I spend at least 50% of my time looking at farms for sale in Chile. And with good reason. I’ve written before at length why agriculture seems like the no-brainer investment of the decade: given the fundamentals of supply and demand, the absolute

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The US and UK are losing brilliant people to this country…

December 3, 2012 Santiago, Chile Chile is a great place to be an entrepreneur and start a business. Perhaps the biggest reason is that it’s overly abundant with compelling, lucrative opportunities. I would group these into three main categories: 1) Products and services targeting the domestic market. Chile already has the most robust

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How to obtain a second passport

November 29, 2012 Santiago, Chile Over the past month, there’s been a surge of interest in second passports: Google trends indicates that the keyword search has grown like a weed since the beginning of the month, no doubt due to the re-election of President Obama. Here’s the thing, though… obtaining a second passport

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Gold in Hong Kong: ridiculously cheap spreads

October 28, 2012, Hong Kong After spending a fantastic weekend in Myanmar, I headed to Hong Kong late Sunday to partake in one of my favorite activities: buying gold on the cheap. As we’ve discussed before, Hong Kong consistently ranks as one of the cheapest places in the world to buy gold. In

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What’s Next for Gold and Silver?

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 price of an

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Easier said than done

August 24, 2012 Spoleto, Italy If you haven’t heard yet, the committee which is drafting the platform for next week’s US Republican National Convention has announced that they are including a proposal to return to the gold standard. Big news. Ironic… given that it was a Republican president (Richard Nixon) who abolished the gold standard in

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Get ready to start paying these taxes too

In the pre-dawn darkness of a chilly LA morning, my day started off with a chuckle. A friend in the reforestation business sent me an email detailing the US Department of Agriculture’s new ‘Christmas Tree’ tax that was approved yesterday.  I thought it was a joke. It wasn’t. One can only laugh at

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The Cheapest Ways & Places To Buy Gold in 2022

The Cheapest Ways & Places to Buy Gold in 2023 AUTHOR PUBLISHED Looking to buy gold or silver as an insurance policy against the uncertainty the world faces today? Below we reveal the cheapest ways to buy gold and silver and how you can find the least expensive places to buy gold coins,

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Today I confessed my sins to Uncle Sam

Today I confessed my sins to Uncle Sam. No, I’m not talking about anything sinister. But in a mad dash through a US stopover today, I dropped US Treasury form TDF-90 in the mail:  “Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts.” It went something like this: “Forgive me uncle for I have sinned.

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