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July 5, 2013 [Editor’s note: What follows is a letter that Simon Black wrote from Egypt two years ago after the last ‘revolution’. The names have changed, but the story is the same.] Originally published September 7, 2011 from Cairo, Egypt Revolution. It’s a funny word when you think about it. In political
July 4, 2013 Eastern Poland Amid all the barbecues and fireworks today in the Land of the Free, it may be worth a short pause to remember the words of Thomas Jefferson some 237-years ago: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by
July 3, 2013 Frankfurt, Germany I’ve landed this morning in Frankfurt… financial capital of one of the few remaining ‘healthy’ countries in Europe able to inspire a modicum of confidence among investors. As southern Europe buckles under the weight of unserviceable debt and 60%+ youth unemployment rates, Germany is coasting along with an
July 2, 2013 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil A few friends sent me a disturbing, shocking, gut-wrenching video yesterday. It’s amateur footage of police officers from a LA metro-area unit shooting, and killing, a man’s dog. While they were arresting him. For the crime of… recording them. Apparently the cops were in the neighborhood
July 1, 2013 Buenos Aires, Argentina Well… this has turned out to be one of those epic fail travel stories. I was supposed to be in Cape Town this morning, where the entire city has been shut down due to the presence of Barack Obama. But apparently when you fly to South Africa
June 26, 2013 Maule Region, Chile One of my favorite things I do each year is our annual Liberty and Entrepreneurship camp, which we hold each summer in Europe. It’s predominantly for younger people in their early to mid 20s, and one of the things that we drive home each and every year
June 17, 2013 Santiago, Chile In remarks given late last week to the curiously named United States Institute for Peace, the head of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) vociferously denied any attempts at regulating digital currency… specifically Bitcoin. The speech, entitled “The virtual economy: potential, perplexities and promises”, can be downloaded
June 13, 2013 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 this morning.] As Ben Graham, the father of value investing, observed, an investment operation “is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal
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+