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June 12, 2013 Santiago, Chile If you’re one of the 1,000+ subscribers who has take the trip down to Chile, you might have had the pleasure of meeting Marco, my right-hand man in Chile. One of the great things about Marco is that he intuitively understands our Sovereign Man philosophy. Because he lived
June 10, 2013 Santiago, Chile On a ski slope, there are two kinds of people. The first group is people who seem to have been born on skis. The second group is the people who are humiliated by the first group. Having grown up in Texas, I never saw snow until my first
June 7, 2013 Maule Region, Chile For some, it’s hard to even fathom… as if the headlines were ripped from the Onion instead of Atlas Shrugged or 1984: NSA Is Wired Into Top Internet Companies’ Servers, Including Google and Facebook NSA reportedly collecting phone records of millions Former NSA head defends agency reportedly
June 6, 2013 Jakarta, Indonesia [Editor’s note: Tim Staermose, Sovereign Man’s Chief Investment Strategist, is filling in today while Simon is looking at agricultural property in Chile.] It’s always a bit amusing to meet an investor making money in the markets right now who actually thinks it’s because he’s smarter than everyone else.
May 31, 2013 New York City About once or twice a month for the past few years, it’s been a steady ritual of mine to conduct a Google search for the words “all-time high” and “all-time low”. The results provide an interesting big picture perspective on what’s happening in the world. A recent
May 30, 2013 New York City Anytime a free market guy rails against central planning and socialism, there is always someone who stands up and says “what about Sweden?” Ah, Sweden… a socialist’s paradise… a place where taxes are among the highest in the world, few people are wealthy, and the government is
May 29, 2013 Sarasota, Florida, USA In the largest such case ever brought by the US federal government, the Department of Treasury shut down virtual currency provider Liberty Reserve yesterday as a ‘primary money laundering concern.’ If you’re not familiar with Liberty Reserve, it was a Costa Rica-based platform that allowed its 1+
May 28, 2013 Sarasota, Florida, USA Last month at our event in Santiago, Ron Paul told me that he used to keep a sign on his desk during his time in Congress that read: “Don’t steal. The government hates competition.” These days, perhaps a more appropriate saying would be– “Don’t violate people’s civil
May 27, 2013 Dallas, Texas, USA Today is the Memorial Day holiday in the Land of the Free. Curiously, this is the day that the federal government sets aside for citizens to reflect on the sacrifices made by soldiers throughout history to ‘preserve our freedoms.’ At least, that’s what we’re told. We’re programmed
May 24, 2013 Dallas, Texas, USA Years ago as a young intelligence officer, I served a stint in Saudi Arabia running a team of counter-terrorism analysts and agents. We used to have regular “threat working groups,” a fancy way of saying we would get together at the US Embassy for meetings with the
May 23, 2013 Dallas, Texas, USA Last week when I arrived to Bangladesh, the immigration officials there were positively ecstatic to see a foreign tourist entering the country. I’ve also been to places in Africa and the South Pacific where you’re greeted upon arrival by dancing tribespeople singing songs of welcome. It’s not
May 22, 2013 London, England [Tim Price, frequent Sovereign Man contributor and Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management, is filling in for Simon today.] James Montier’s bible on behavioural finance, ‘Behavioural investing’, points out two recent discoveries by neuroscientists that have relevance to all investors: 1) We are hard-wired to think short-term,
Myanmar is among the hottest “frontier” investment markets today. The country is going from an authoritarian regime to democracy, from a conflict situation to a situation of relative peace, and, most importantly, from a closed economy of state-owned companies, to an open, free market economy. Such positive change all at once in one
May 20, 2013 Hong Kong In what may go down as one of the most obtusely out-of-touch policy memos ever written, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization recently released a paper entitled “Edible Insects: Future Prospects for Food and Feed Security.” http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3253e/i3253e.pdf For 171 pages, the paper argues for insect-based diets, explaining
May 17, 2013 Dhaka, Bangladesh Well, you have to admit one thing– the United States Senate certainly has its priorities straight. Early last week they passed S.743, the Marketplace Fairness Act. This bill requires US-based online merchants to charge, collect, report, and pay sales tax to the roughly 9,646 jurisdictions within the Land
