Category: Trends & News

Just in case anyone still foolishly believes that there’s a shred of decency left in the ‘justice’ system in the Land of the Free, I would humbly present exhibit A: Edward Snowden. In a recent interview with the BBC, Edward Snowden disclosed that he has offered numerous times to the US government to

Last night after a flurry of legal meetings and property tours throughout the day, I had drinks with a Canadian real estate developer who set up shop here in Medellin a few years ago. He told me a great story about his family background– he comes from a long line of real estate

Yesterday the leading presidential candidate in the Land of the Free released his tax plan in the Wall Street Journal. And the Donald certainly did not disappoint his supporters. His tax plan is bold, aiming to drastically simplify the tax code and reduce the number of individual income tax brackets down to four.

Nearly four months ago on June 2nd, something very unusual happened in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The price of propane actually became negative, hitting an unbelievable -0.625 cents per gallon. It’s hard to believe that the price of a productive commodity could become so beat down by the market that producers would practically have

On May 28, 1816, Thomas Jefferson penned a letter to his friend John Taylor deeply criticizing the use of debt to fund a government’s excessive operations: “[T]he principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale,” Public debt is a

September 22, 2015 Victoria, Chile About ten days ago, I had the pleasure of going through final procedures to obtain my permanent residency permit here in Chile. Sitting in the waiting lounge of the Civil Registry office in downtown Santiago, I found myself struck by the mix of people. Many of them were

September 16, 2015 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile Six months ago, on March 16, 2015, the government of the United States of America once again reached its statutory debt limit. In other words, the Land of the Free had maxed out its credit card and was legally barred from borrowing a penny more. That’s

September 15, 2015 Cauquenes, Chile Seven years ago on September 15, 2008, one of the oldest investment banks in America filed for bankruptcy. Lehman Brothers had been started a family of German entrepreneurs who had recently emigrated to the United States in the mid-1800s. They started as just a simple general store in

September 14, 2015 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile Every few centuries a new technology is invented and adopted that fundamentally changes everything about how a society is structured and organized. The Agricultural Revolution allowed early humankind to stop being nomadic hunters and establish the roots of civilization in a single location. The invention of

September 8, 2015 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile By late 2002, the national currency of Brazil (known as the “real”) was practically in free fall. In barely six weeks the real had lost nearly a quarter of its value, and in mid-October 2002, the real hit its weakest level in history at 4 per