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October 15, 2014 En route to New York [Editor’s note: This is the third piece in our series covering exciting startup locations in thriving markets around the world. See also, Medellín, Colombia, and Vilnius, Lithuania.] A strong community of other entrepreneurs and mentors makes all the difference for a young startup. Through a
October 14, 2014 Buenos Aires, Argentina In the pantheon of utter political stupidity in our time, the competition is pretty fierce to see who ranks #1. But I have to imagine that, even with so many rivals, Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner makes a pretty compelling argument to be the champion. And though
October 13, 2014 Santiago, Chile A man in a uniform dashes up to you with a badge pinned to his chest and says “that man over there is a thief! Quick, help me get him!” What do you do? You would probably run and tackle the guy down, right? To get to the
October 13, 2014 London, England [Editor’s note: Tim Price, London-based wealth manager, is filling in for Simon today.] “When sorrows come,” wrote Shakespeare, “they come not single spies, but in battalions.” True. And Jeremy Warner for the Daily Telegraph identifies ten such sorrows in his ‘ten biggest threats to the global economy’: 1)
October 10, 2014 Santiago, Chile I just got off a two-hour conference call with the board of directors of our agricultural investment company. I’m fortunate that our board is comprised of some incredibly smart people, including a senior executive at one of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world, another investment banking
October 9, 2014 Santiago, Chile The Bank of Korea — South Korea’s central bank — released data that says South Korean domestic deposits have reached 16.19 billion Chinese renminbi in July this year, which is a 55-fold increase from the same period last year when renminbi deposits accounted for only 290 million. According
October 8, 2014 Santiago, Chile In 1863, the United States of America was in the midst of a devastating civil war. Thousands of people had just lost their lives at Gettysburg, and Sherman was preparing for his march to the sea, laying waste to Atlanta in the process. New York City was embroiled
October 7, 2014 Santiago, Chile Now that European Union countries are required by law to keep tabs on illegal activities as part of their economic indicators, we decided to look at some select European countries more closely. The new accounting rules mandated by the EU’s statistics office, Eurostat, include revenue from illegal activities
October 7, 2014 Santiago, Chile Chris Rose was dying from terminal heart disease. He didn’t have long, and before he passed, he wanted to make sure that his 18-month old son received his British passport. When he went to pay the application fee at the British consulate in Hong Kong with cash, they
October 6, 2014 London, England [Editor’s Note: Tim Price, Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management in the UK and frequent Sovereign Man contributor, is filling in for Simon today.] For the benefit of anyone living under a rock these past weeks, Bill Gross, the so-called “Bond King” and manager of the world’s
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October 3, 2014 Santiago, Chile Some of our team members at Sovereign Man are on the ground in Hong Kong and are witnessing first-hand the turmoil that’s been going on there for the past two weeks. It all started on September 22 with grievances over the decision from the Chinese government in Beijing
October 2, 2014 Santiago, Chile In 1324, Mansa Musa, the tenth emperor of the Mali Empire, set off from Western Africa on his pilgrimage to Mecca. This was no Spartan journey. He was accompanied on his way by a procession of 60,000 men and 12,000 slaves, each of whom carried up to four
October 1, 2014 Santiago, Chile The Chinese central bank, People’s Bank of China, issued a press release announcing the authorization of direct trading between the renminbi and the euro on the inter-bank foreign exchange market. This is huge. The euro is the second most traded currency in the world, after the US dollar.
September 30, 2014 Santiago, Chile He had a vision for what the state could be. His vision was a state that was intricately involved in every person’s life from cradle to the grave. It was responsible for their education, it was their place of work and source of income, and it would monitor
September 30, 2014 Santiago, Chile Earlier this month both the New York and Philadelphia Federal Reserves published the results of a survey they conducted asking business owners how the Affordable Care Act has changed how they operate. Bear in mind, healthcare reform was sold on the basis that it would be good for