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September 24, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile In the days of ancient Rome, it was tradition for the upper class to liberate their slaves after a set number of years. The Roman government, however, looked at this as an opportunity to generate revenue, and they taxed the newly freed slave on his freedom.
September 23, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile When I landed at Addis Ababa airport in Ethiopia again last month, the first thing that struck me was how much everything was… Chinese. Far and away, most of the passengers at the airport arriving from various destinations were Chinese. Many of the signs were in
September 22, 2014 Santiago, Chile If someone mentions the Dotcom Bubble, Pets.com is easily the first thing to come to mind. The online pet product store failed hard and it failed fast. In just 268 days, the company went from IPO to liquidation, managing to lose $300 million in the process. Yet it
September 22, 2014 London, England [This letter was written by Tim Price, frequent Sovereign Man contributor and Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management in the UK.] Several years ago we highlighted the work of Leopold Kohr. Kohr was an Austrian Jew who only narrowly escaped the Holocaust. The village in which he
September 19, 2014 Santiago, Chile It was known as Directive 10-289, and it was the government’s last-ditch, desperate effort to control the collapsing economy. The President, along with some of his senior advisors at the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources, all widely agreed that the only way out of the crisis
September 18, 2014 Santiago, Chile Imagine coming home from work and finding that a group of men have broken into your house. What do you do? I have a gratified feeling that for an increasing number of our readers, the answer would be to draw their firearm and defend the home. But it’s
September 16, 2014 Santiago, Chile The polls in Scotland will close this week on one of the more important elections in recent history… perhaps one of the only elections that actually matters. Rather than a typical vote to see who the captain of the Titanic will be, Scots are deciding whether they want
September 15, 2014 Santiago, Chile Gallup released a new poll late last week showing how many (or few, as it were) Americans are ‘satisfied’ with the direction of the country. 23%. That’s it. 76% are NOT satisfied. Only 1% aren’t sure. The chart below shows the astounding, long-term decline since 2000. Note, this
September 15, 2014 Santiago, Chile Today is a rather peculiar public holiday in Japan: “Respect Old People Day”. And judging by the official demographics, an increasing proportion of the population should be revered today. One in eight Japanese is aged 75 or older. People over 65 will reach 33 million, the largest ever,
September 11, 2014 Santiago, Chile Governments and mainstream media outlets have a great way of presenting sensational threats and evil villains. They want us to be terrified of men in caves, roving bands of barbarians, and deadly viruses that turn our insides out. Last night, for example, President Obama told the world that
September 10, 2014 Santiago, Chile Jim Rogers is easily one of the smartest and most successful investors I know. And one of his seemingly endless pearls of wisdom about investing is that sometimes the best thing to do is absolutely nothing. Sit on the sidelines, and wait until the opportunity is so obvious
September 9, 2014 Santiago, Chile Anyone who’s ever seen the movie Braveheart has heard of William Wallace, one of the original heroes of Scottish independence. Though Mel Gibson’s highly fictionalized account was one of the most historically inaccurate movies in modern cinema, Wallace did, in fact, lead Scottish rebels against English invaders. And
September 8, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile When Ferdinand Magellan and his men arrived in the harbor of Rio de Janeiro in 1519, throngs of naked native women swam out into the surf to greet them. Having spent the previous months battling through the brutal waters of the Atlantic, this was certainly a
September 6, 2014 Santiago, Chile In 1974 Richard Nixon struck a deal with Saudi Arabia that might go down as the biggest scam in US history. In exchange for weapons and protection, the Saudis would sell their oil for US dollars, then reinvest those dollars back in the United States. This was a
September 5, 2014 Santiago, Chile Say hello to the next financial crisis, brought to you courtesy of the dumbest new bill of the week: H.R. 5148: Access to Affordable Mortgages Act. Ordinarily whenever an individual wants to borrow money for a mortgage, the bank conducts due diligence… both on the borrower as well
