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Historic is the only word I think you could use to describe it. Just imagine the scene: Ron Paul, Jim Rogers, Nigel Farage, Jim Rickards, and Peter Schiff, all on stage at the same time, Saturday night, in Santiago, Chile. This was so fantastical that when we posted the photo of the group
Being a sovereign man is not just about diversifying and internationalizing your assets across national borders. It’s as much about your mindset and the way you view the world and the events that are happening around you. Your worldview is heavily dependent on the knowledge and ideas that you are exposed to, but
Over dinner with a friend in Busan, South Korea yesterday, the conversation turned to residency and second citizenships. My friend is a successful entrepreneur who’s lived in South Korea ever since I first met him in 1996. Right now, he has an investors’ visa. The requirements are simple; when he got his, an
[Editor’s note: Tim Staermose, Sovereign Man’s Chief Investment Strategist is filling in for Simon today from San Jose, Costa Rica.] It’s easy to see why people like Costa Rica so much. The country is gorgeous, and the climate can be excellent. There are plenty of cooling breezes to keep it comfortable year-round, despite
Yesterday I had the opportunity to break bread with a good friend of mine who is an alumnus of the Startup Chile entrepreneurship program. This is a really unique program that the government launched in 2010 at the behest of one of Chile’s leading entrepreneurs. In its first few months, Startup Chile brought
Reporting from Punta del Este, Uruguay “Charming” is, I believe, the word most often used to describe Uruguay. People tend to make a lot of parallels to the United States in the 1950s– a much slower pace of life, less government intrusion, and family focused. The capital city of Montevideo is notoriously sleepy
February 6, 2013 Santiago, Chile Chile is about to become the easiest place in the world to form a company and start a business. According to a new law that was recently passed, the Chilean government is slashing the bureaucracy associated with forming a company here to the absolute minimum. Currently, it takes
February 5, 2013 Santiago, Chile Exactly ten years ago to the day, I was in the Kuwaiti desert waiting for George W. Bush to ‘make his decision’. You may remember the circumstances. Ever since labeling Iraq, Iran, and North Korea the ‘Axis of Evil’ in January 2002, the President had been gradually advocating
February 1, 2013 En route from Lima to Santiago Let’s end this week with something that we haven’t done in many, many moons: a Q&A. Each week, my staff receives hundreds of questions from the 100,000+ Notes from the Field readers… and given the utter insanity which pervades the West right now, it’s
It’s been a couple of years since I’ve been to Lima, and I’m amazed at the growth that has taken place in that time. The level of disposable income has risen dramatically as more people have been pulled into the middle class. And despite the increase in the number of roads, traffic is
January 30, 2013 Central Chilean Coast [Editor’s note: Sovereign Man contributor Darren Kaiser of Chile-Farmland.com is filling in today while Simon is en route to Peru.] sov·er·eign·ty n. pl. ·ties 1. The quality of having independent authority over a certain geographic area. 2. A territory existing as an independent state. Human beings have always
January 29, 2013 Southern Ecuador You know you’re no longer living in a free country when the government tells you what you can and cannot put in your body. Or when an unelected board of bureaucrats and corporate insiders can confiscate the assets of hardworking small business owners. Yet these have become par
January 28, 2013 Isla Santa Cruz, Galapagos Islands You know that saying people use all the time– “It’s a small world…” ? It’s really not. The world is huge. Really, really huge. This fact is continually impressed upon me as I travel. After nearly a decade of living nomadically and traveling to more
January 25, 2013 Guayaquil, Ecuador Early in the 4th century, Emperor Diocletian issued an infamous decree to control spiraling wages and prices in the rapidly deteriorating Roman Empire. As part of his edict, Diocletian commanded that any merchant or customer caught violating the new price structures would be put to death. This is
January 24, 2013 Santiago, Chile What would you do if you hit your breaking point… tomorrow? Where would you go? What would you do with your time and resources? It’s a great question worth asking. Some close friends of mine have been in town for the past few days escaping the northern winter
