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It all started innocently enough. It was July 2, 1997, and the Prime Minister of Thailand had just announced that their currency– the Thai baht– would no longer be pegged to the US dollar. Big deal, right? It doesn’t seem like a boring press conference about an emerging market currency in Southeast Asia
Robert Mugabe could have gone down in history with the same esteem and grandeur as Nelson Mandela. Like Mandela, Mugabe was imprisoned for several years for being a prominent anti-colonialist leader in Zimbabwe— then called Rhodesia. Upon release from prison, and with a little help from the international community, Mugabe became Prime Minister
Let’s not mince words: stagflation is here. Let’s also not overreact: the world is not coming to an end. And, like all things, there are both risks and rewards that will arise. First, what do we know? Historically high inflation is obvious. Plus many major economies around the world are already sputtering. Germany’s
Amazon’s Ring video doorbells likely form the largest private surveillance network the world has ever known. Millions of Americans allow Ring surveillance cameras to record and store video and audio of all activity at their front door. Ring maintains access to users’ unencrypted videos, and has admitted in the past that at least
In the year 210 AD, after two decades of constant warfare, Roman Emperor Septimius Severus was finally satisfied: he had conquered nearly the entire known western world. This was the year that the Roman Empire reached its maximum territory– approximately 5 million square kilometers, stretching from Morocco to Georgia, from southern Scotland to
On September 3, 1783, after nearly a year of excruciating back-and-forth negotiations, all sides had finally gathered together in Paris to sign a historic peace agreement. It was a pretty important peace deal. Because the Treaty of Paris, as it is now known, is what formally ended the American Revolution, and when Great
In March of 421 BC, after years of escalating conflict, Athens and Sparta finally decided to bury the hatchet and coexist peacefully together in the Mediterranean. The two powers had been at odds for decades. Athens had ballooned into a regional empire, and Sparta itself was a rising power. The two sides came
When news of Suleiman the Magnificent’s death on September 6, 1566 reached Europe, kings, queens, and clergy across the continent breathed a collective sigh of relief. Suleiman had reigned as the supreme leader of the Ottoman Empire for nearly 50 years, during which time he became one the most feared and powerful men
In the year 1445 in the Spanish city of Valencia, a 14-year old boy named Rodrigo started his first job as the ‘sacristan’ of the local cathedral. Becoming sacristan was a pretty big responsibility, especially for a kid; Rodrigo was basically put in charge of the cathedral’s books, records, and high-value assets. But
[Editor’s Note: This article was written by Sovereign Man team member Joe Jarvis.] It was early in 2016 when I came across a Facebook post talking about a free entrepreneurship workshop for young people due to be held that summer in a country that I had barely heard of— Lithuania. I was intrigued
A few weeks ago, the Board of Trustees for Social Security released its annual report. And, once again, it was a scathing indictment of the program’s solvency. Primarily, the report points out that, since 2008, the cost of Social Security has been “increasing much more rapidly than [its income] and is projected to
Richard of Bordeaux was just a scared, ten year old boy in the summer of 1377 when his grandfather passed away. This should hardly have been historically relevant. But in Richard’s case, his grandfather was King Edward III who had ruled England for more than 50 years. Edward III had been highly unpopular
Through the pandemic, public health officials have taken some ridiculous actions with their “health” powers. In some cases they barred people from accessing their own property, and in others locked them inside their homes. They threatened to cut off utilities to businesses which didn’t shut down, threatened to separate families, and tried to
In the year 1255 AD, a prominent Italian businessman named Orlando Bonsignori launched a new venture that he boldly called the Gran Tavola, or “Great Table”. Despite the name, it wasn’t a medieval furniture shop. Bonsignori came from a family of wealthy bankers who had highly influential political connections across Europe. And Bonsignori’s
One of the most powerful steps you can take for your Plan B is establishing a second residency in another country. Obtaining residency in a foreign country doesn’t mean that you have to move anywhere. What it does mean is that you’ll have at least one more place in the world where you’re