Category: Trends & News

June 25, 2015 Bali, Indonesia In late June 1997, eighteen years ago, this part of the world felt pretty normal. People had jobs. Inflation was fairly low. The economy was growing. Confidence was high. Life was great. For years, most of the economies across Asia had seen meteoric, credit-fueled growth. Capital was pouring

June 22, 2015 Seminyak, Bali In May 1940, a visibly concerned Winston Churchill traveled to Paris to survey the city’s defenses. Nazi forces had already blasted past French units and were rolling easily through the Somme Valley towards Paris. There wasn’t much time. And Churchill bluntly asked the commanders in his notoriously pitiful

June 18, 2015 Kathmandu, Nepal I’ll never forget the Oath of Office I took when I was commissioned as an Army Intelligence Officer all those years ago. The most important part is where you swear to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against ALL enemies, foreign and domestic.” That was

June 17, 2015 Bangkok, Thailand Before leaving the house early one morning in 63 BC, an anxious Julius Caesar told his mother, “Today thou shalt see thy son either pontifex maximus… or an exile.” Caesar was running for his first BIG elected office- pontifex maximus, the high priest of Rome. And he was

June 15, 2015 London, England In the history of post-Norman monarchs in the UK there have been nine Henrys. Eight Edwards. Four Williams. Four Georges. And three Richards. Yet there was only one John. In fact, in nearly 1,000 years since William the Conqueror took England in 1066, John was the only King

June 15, 2015 London, England [Editor’s note: This letter was written by Tim Price, London-based wealth manager and frequent Sovereign Man contributor.] Today marks the end of the most notorious example of fiscal insanity in modern times. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe today begins a process to “demonetise” its now irrelevant currency, the

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.