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Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, fellow citizens: This summer we will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I. This senseless, destructive war was started and championed by politicians who cared nothing for the 9 million people who lost their lives. And in doing so, they began
January 27, 2014 Santiago, Chile It’s happening again. This time HSBC branches in the UK are putting limits on customer withdrawals. Bank employees there have been telling customers that they first must demonstrate to the bank’s satisfaction WHY they want to withdraw their own money. The bank has simply decided in its sole
January 24, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile One of the greatest lies of the modern financial system (and that’s really saying something) is about inflation. The puppet masters who control the system have managed to convince people that deflation = bad, and inflation = necessary evil. Perhaps the even bigger lie is that
January 23, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile As the saying goes, ‘desperate times call for desperate measures.’ The phrase is bandied about so frequently, it’s generally accepted truth. But I have to tell you that I fundamentally disagree with the premise. Desperate times, in fact, call for a complete reset in the way
16 de Enero del 2014, Santiago de Chile Hay un minúsculo parasito que existe en la naturaleza conocido como: Spinochordodes tellinii el cual infecta grillos y saltamontes. Una vez que ha alcanzado la madures este gusano es capaz de afectar profundamente el comportamiento de su anfitrión; entre lo más destacado, este gusano puede
Dropbox, the popular cloud-based file storage service, has upwards of 200 million registered users. I doubt many of them have ever read the company’s privacy policy, which states clearly that the company will fully comply with requests from law enforcement agencies. And while the company does encrypt your files across their multiple data
January 20, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile It’s almost exactly like that scene from V for Vendetta. You know– the part in the end where swarms of people go up against the police with their sticks and Guy Fawkes masks… That’s what’s happening in Ukraine right now. And with reason. After weeks of
January 17, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile I have to give you fair warning, this is truly disgusting. It’s been over two years since Kelly Thomas, a 37-year old man from Fullerton, California was tased and beaten to death by local police. Thomas was homeless, schizophrenic, and had a long history of mental
January 16, 2014 Santiago, Chile There’s a nasty little parasite that exists in nature known as the nematomorph hairworm (Spinochordodes tellinii) which typically infects grasshoppers and crickets. Once fully grown, the worm is able to profoundly affect the behavior of its host; most notably, the worm can actually compel a grasshopper to throw
January 15, 2014 Santiago, Chile In 1892, 17 year old Pascual Baburizza stepped off the boat in what looked like an unwelcoming, arid landscape in the north of Chile. Baburizza had just spent several weeks on a boat travelling from his home island of Koločep, Croatia, which was then part of the dying
January 13, 2014 Santiago, Chile In the 3rd century AD, Emperor Caracalla famously remarked of Rome’s tax policy: “For as long as we have this,” pointing to his sword, “we shall not run out of money.” (Of course, Rome did run out of money. ) At the time, Roman taxation was so extractive
January 10, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile There’s no doubt that one of these days (hopefully very soon), our current monetary system will be viewed as one of the most absurd financial experiments in history. Consider the monetary system for what it really is– politicians award unelected central bankers with the power to
January 7, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile Later this year, Google will celebrate its 10th anniversary as a publicly-traded company. And the conventional wisdom is that GOOG has been one of the best performing investments of the last decade. If you had invested $85 in the Google IPO back in 2004, your investment
January 6, 2014 London, England [Editor’s Note: Tim Price, Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management and frequent Sovereign Man contributor is filling in for Simon today.] On December 31st, 1964, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 874. On December 31st, 1981, it stood at 875. In Buffett’s words, “I’m known as
January 2, 2014 Santiago, Chile 1) Politicians believe there are no consequences for destroying our liberty… Stimulus and response. That’s the easiest way of summing this up. When politicians steal, and there are no consequences, they’re going to keep stealing. Cyprus proved this point handily. The government froze bank accounts for everyone in