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Why your government thinks you’re a total sucker

February 12, 2015 Puerto Varas, Chile Ten years ago, the legendary American mathematician Edward Lorenz paid a visit to the University of Maryland’s Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Department. As retold by Professor Christopher Danforth of the University of Vermont— At some point during his stay, [Lorenz] penned the following on a piece of

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Checkpoint Charlie is back: Ukraine starts building a new Berlin Wall

February 11, 2015 Puerto Varas, Chile On August 13, 1961, the government of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) began to establish an “Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart”. The idea was to, you know, protect people… from fascist terrorists who intended to do harm in the country. Just weeks after government officials stated that they

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Can you spot the $9 million difference between these two properties?

February 10, 2015 Puerto Varas, Chile I’ve been having to keep consciously reminding myself where I am. The well-paved roads twist and turn along the lake’s shores, and beautiful snowcapped mountains tower above in the distance. And I keep seeing signs in German. It really feels like being in Switzerland again. Yet I

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Bubble? Meet the $25 million grilled cheese truck

February 9, 2015 London, England  [Editor’s note: Tim Price, London-based wealth manager, is filling in for Simon today.] There are some time-honoured signs of an impending market top. One of them is that margin debt has peaked. Another is that interest rates are going through the floor. Another is that the velocity of

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I’ve run the numbers and it’s true—this is a failed strategy

February 6, 2015 Victoria, Chile A few months ago, I needed to satisfy my curiosity. You see, one of the things I pride myself on about Sovereign Man is that my entire team and I are extremely data-driven. We make rational, calculated assertions typically based on publicly-available data. When I say, for example,

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Here’s how to completely screw Vladimir Putin

February 5, 2015 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile What if I told you that you could own a comfortable, newly constructed home with 11 acres of high quality land for less than $100,000? It almost sounds too good to be true. But this is exactly the sort of deal that my team and I

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Hong Kong is doomed—foolishly lowering and even eliminating taxes

February 5, 2015 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile The government committee was clear—if nothing was to be done, the government’s finances would be doomed in as little as seven years. The Finance Secretary had some tough decisions to make. Raising more revenue for the government over the next few years is crucial. He was

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Here’s a startling fact about Mr. Obama’s new budget [AUDIO]

February 4, 2015 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile On February 2, 493 AD, two barbarian kings signed a peace treaty pledging to lay down their weapons and rule Italy together. The first king, Odoacer, had taken over Rome 17 years before in what most historians view as the official “fall” of the Western Roman

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Three slides that will challenge everything you think about investing

February 3, 2015 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile With just three slides and 5 minutes and 44 seconds, Tim Price breaks down everything that’s wrong with the markets… and with the conventional investing mentality that most investors cling to like a warm blanket. This is an incredibly enlightening video, with some completely new insight.

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Here’s some frightening honesty, courtesy of the US Congress

January 30, 2015 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile A member of my staff caught an obscure resolution that was introduced in the US House of Representatives last week—Resolution no. 41. The fact that there was essentially no coverage of this Resolution really shows how the mainstream media is completely turning a blind eye to

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Another step down the long, slow road to IRA nationalization

January 29, 2015 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile Let’s take a brief walk into financial reality for a moment. At the time of this writing, the United States government’s official debt is nearly $18.1 trillion. Now, let’s look at who the biggest owners of that debt are: 1) Taxpayers of the United States. If

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Congress proposes bill to restore First Amendment rights… then kills it

January 23, 2015 Santiago, Chile To this day, many governments around the world maintain a tight grip on dissent. Students in Thailand have been arrested for using a three-fingered salute they saw in the movie Hunger Games. In Turkey, Twitter, Youtube, and other social media sites have been blocked. And in Russia the

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