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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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
August 28, 2012 Spoleto, Italy Jacques Wajsfelner of Weston, Massachusetts is a criminal mastermind. Big time. Like Lex Luthor. But rest easy, ladies and gentlemen, for this nefarious villain is about to face some serious jail time thanks to the courageous work of US government agents. You see, Mr. Wajsfelner was finally caught and convicted of
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
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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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.