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September 29, 2014 Santiago, Chile “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of the world, unite!” Most people remember Karl Marx’s most potent points and phrases, and the mountain of corpses his disciples left behind, especially in the 20th century. However, most forget or
September 29, 2014 Bali, Indonesia [Editor’s note: This note was penned by Sovereign Man’s Chief Investment Strategist Tim Staermose.] A few days ago, Bill Gross, the world’s most famous bond fund manager, sensationally resigned from PIMCO, the firm he co-founded in 1970. Trouble had been brewing behind the scenes at PIMCO for months,
September 29, 2014 London, England [Editor’s note: This letter was written by Tim Price, frequent Sovereign Man contributor and Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management in the UK.] “Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.” – Anonymous. The French statesman
We like to think of the solutions we provide here at Sovereign Man as seatbelts—common sense tools you might never need it, but could save your life in a real emergency. If you live, work, bank, own property, invest, structure a business, store gold, etc. all in the same country of your citizenship,
September 25, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile For the last four years we’ve been railing against the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act as one of the dumbest, most arrogant laws ever passed in the history of the world. FATCA, as it’s known, was signed into law in 2010 in an effort to ‘clamp
September 24, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile In the days of ancient Rome, it was tradition for the upper class to liberate their slaves after a set number of years. The Roman government, however, looked at this as an opportunity to generate revenue, and they taxed the newly freed slave on his freedom.
September 23, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile When I landed at Addis Ababa airport in Ethiopia again last month, the first thing that struck me was how much everything was… Chinese. Far and away, most of the passengers at the airport arriving from various destinations were Chinese. Many of the signs were in
September 22, 2014 Santiago, Chile If someone mentions the Dotcom Bubble, Pets.com is easily the first thing to come to mind. The online pet product store failed hard and it failed fast. In just 268 days, the company went from IPO to liquidation, managing to lose $300 million in the process. Yet it
September 22, 2014 London, England [This letter was written by Tim Price, frequent Sovereign Man contributor and Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management in the UK.] Several years ago we highlighted the work of Leopold Kohr. Kohr was an Austrian Jew who only narrowly escaped the Holocaust. The village in which he
September 19, 2014 Santiago, Chile It was known as Directive 10-289, and it was the government’s last-ditch, desperate effort to control the collapsing economy. The President, along with some of his senior advisors at the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources, all widely agreed that the only way out of the crisis
September 18, 2014 Santiago, Chile Imagine coming home from work and finding that a group of men have broken into your house. What do you do? I have a gratified feeling that for an increasing number of our readers, the answer would be to draw their firearm and defend the home. But it’s
September 16, 2014 Santiago, Chile The polls in Scotland will close this week on one of the more important elections in recent history… perhaps one of the only elections that actually matters. Rather than a typical vote to see who the captain of the Titanic will be, Scots are deciding whether they want
September 15, 2014 Santiago, Chile Gallup released a new poll late last week showing how many (or few, as it were) Americans are ‘satisfied’ with the direction of the country. 23%. That’s it. 76% are NOT satisfied. Only 1% aren’t sure. The chart below shows the astounding, long-term decline since 2000. Note, this
September 15, 2014 Santiago, Chile Today is a rather peculiar public holiday in Japan: “Respect Old People Day”. And judging by the official demographics, an increasing proportion of the population should be revered today. One in eight Japanese is aged 75 or older. People over 65 will reach 33 million, the largest ever,
September 11, 2014 Santiago, Chile Governments and mainstream media outlets have a great way of presenting sensational threats and evil villains. They want us to be terrified of men in caves, roving bands of barbarians, and deadly viruses that turn our insides out. Last night, for example, President Obama told the world that