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June 11, 2015 Oxford, England OK this is really getting ridiculous. Despite being the sacred keepers of the Catholic faith and trustees of the meek, the Holy See has just inked a deal with the US government putting the Pope in bed with the Internal Revenue Service. It’s so bizarre you couldn’t possibly
June 8, 2015 Paris, France I’ll be up front with you and say that this video is disturbing. It’s like a bucket of ice-cold water thrown in the face of the dream world that most people are walking through. Watching riots on TV in places like Baltimore and Ferguson, it’s easy to
June 5, 2015 Buenos Aires, Argentina If there’s one thing I love about Argentina, it’s that no rational person here trusts the government. They’ve been screwed over so many times before by their politicians (and the banking system), they know it’s all lies. Curiously it keeps happening. This place has been enduring some
June 3, 2015 Buenos Aires, Argentina My general rule of thumb when it comes to legislation is that the more high-sounding the name, the more insidious the law. Exhibit A: the just-passed USA FREEDOM Act. “Freedom”. It sounds great. So great, in fact, that they stuck it in the title and built an
June 1, 2015 Santiago, Chile Chances are that you’ve never heard of the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act that was originally passed nearly 40 years ago. And chances are you didn’t catch the November 20, 2014 edition of the ‘Federal Register’, the US government’s daily opus of new rules and
May 29, 2015 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile I came across an interesting story from India recently. In a landmark animal rights case, the High Court there ruled that birds can no longer be kept in cages. The judges asserted that birds have a fundamental right to live with dignity and be free. Incredible.
While I was in Mexico for our Global Offshore and Investment Summit in Cancun in 2015, I was approached by Forbes Mexico for an interview on some of the key trends in the global economy as well as internationalization strategies for investors. You can read the full article here in Spanish, and below I’m
May 11, 2015 Santiago, Chile Under the republic of Ancient Rome, to be a citizen was an unparalleled status that people throughout the entire known world aspired to achieve. Roman citizens were granted very special privileges and benefits. The right to vote. The right to stand for election. The right to engage in
Roughly 100 kilometers outside of Medellin, Colombia’s second largest city, is a veritable paradise. I spent an incredible weekend with some friends there, high up in the Andes riding horseback and exploring the quaint coffee villages of Colombia’s beautiful highlands. It was amazing. The weather is just perfect. The high altitude at about
May 7, 2015 Victoria, Chile Boris and Svetlana were simple farmers back in the old Soviet era. They grew grapes on Russia’s bountiful Caspian coast, dried them in the sun, and sold raisins according to the quotas set by the committee. Every year the Soviet Union’s Raisin Administrative Committee (RAC) would regulate production,
May 5, 2015 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Our beloved amigos at the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), have just issued the first-ever ‘civil enforcement action’ against a virtual currency. The offending criminal mastermind in this case? Ripple Labs. If you’re not familiar, Ripple
May 4, 2015 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile It was another time. Another era. Another superpower. Great Britain’s was the largest economy in the world in 1873. And it showed. The British pound dominated world trade and was the most widely used reserve currency on the planet. And London was the undisputed epicenter of
April 30, 2015 En route from Mexico City, Mexico I’m certainly a proponent of taking advantage of everything the world has to offer. This includes looking for nice places all over the world. I love spending time in Thailand, Italy, Chile, Croatia, Brazil… But sometimes we forget what’s in our own backyard. It’s
April 28, 2015 Cancun, Mexico One of my favorite historians is a guy named Will Durant. Durant is unfortunately no longer with us, but he and his wife Ariel made history more interesting than all the soap operas my mother used to watch when I was a kid. I thought about something he
April 27, 2015 Cancun, Mexico What an incredible experience. We just spent the last three days with 375 of the most interesting people I’ve ever met down here in Cancun. Our Global Offshore and Investment Summit was absolutely jam-packed. And a ton of fun. We were joined by brilliant financial luminaries like Dr.
