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March 2, 2011 Tulum, Mexico Albert Einstein is frequently credited with saying, “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” It’s true. People do some really dumb things, often to their own detriment. We engage in reckless activities, participate in dangerous sports, remain in
March 1, 2011 Tulum, Mexico Last night my partner and I held our monthly subscribers-only teleconference for premium members, and one of the hot topics was the ambiguous nature of laws. Everywhere in the world, laws are riddled with errors, discrepancies, omissions, and double think. Often these ambiguities are intentional– a result of
February 28, 2011 Tulum, Mexico There’s major shift occurring right now in financial markets. Sure, the food and freedom riots that are spreading across the globe are a major indicator that civil unrest follows very closely behind resource shortages and economic turmoil… but there’s something else that I’ve noticed recently– it’s a sea
February 25, 2011 Tulum, Mexico I woke up this morning to the sound of waves crashing on the beach in Tulum and the sun slowly rising over the Atlantic. There’s hardly a soul for miles… and the weather is perfect. Matt, Tim, and I are staying out here for the next several days
February 24, 2011 It saddens me this morning to inform you that two of our readers and Sovereign Confidential members, Mr. Scott Adam, 70, and his wife Jean were among the victims in this week’s pirate incident in the Arabian Sea. Jean was a retired dentist with an interest in biology, Scott had
February 23, 2011 Panama City, Panama A couple of nights ago, several friends within our Atlas 400 group were invited to dinner aboard another member’s yacht who happened to be docked in Panama. At 165 feet, it was one of the largest I had ever seen, and our friend had clearly spent a
February 22, 2011 Panama City, Panama This weekend’s Sovereign Man Offshore Workshop is over, and I am simultaneously exhausted and exhilarated. After months of planning, weeks of preparation, and days of speaking with very little sleep, the event truly took its toll on me… but it was well worth it. Attendees came from
February 17, 2011 Panama City, Panama Recent headlines below: “World Bank: Global food prices are rising to dangerous levels” “Sysco declares force majeure, raises grocery prices” “The J. M. Smucker Company Announces Coffee Price Increases” “Kraft warns on price increases” “Kellogg says it will raise prices” “Sara Lee to raise prices again on
February 16, 2011 Panama City, Panama My business partner is just plain unlucky. The last time he came to Panama was about a year ago– we were both attending an exclusive Atlas 400 deep sea fishing trip at a remote lodge in Panama’s Darien province. I flew in from Thailand last year, Matt
February 15, 2011 Panama City, Panama One of the things that always intrigued me about Panama is how quickly this place moves… it was among the first things that I noticed when I first started coming here almost 10-years ago– there’s always something major happening. Landing at Tocumen airport last night, right off
February 14, 2011 Northern Araucania, Chile As I was exploring property in the region over the weekend, an earthquake whose epicenter was in nearby Concepcion shook the ground with a magnitude beyond 7.0. This was about as powerful as the earthquake that destroyed Haiti last year, plunging the country into complete turmoil. So
February 11, 2011 Temuco, Chile I’m spending a long weekend in the beautiful city of Temuco, located in Araucania, Chile’s southern lakes and volcanoes region. The further south you go in this country, the more the climate and geography changes from desert and semi-arid to something that looks like New Zealand’s south island.
February 8, 2011 Santiago, Chile In the late 1920s, the economy of the Weimar Republic was beset by numerous fiscal troubles. The global depression spread quickly to Germany, undermining the government’s ability to make its reparation payments from the Great War. Fearing a return to hyperinflation, many Germans who had spent the last
February 8, 2011 Santiago, Chile Somewhere in China, an economist lost his job today… it was the poor guy who had been predicting manageable levels of inflation despite rapid headline GDP growth and even more rapid monetary expansion. Yet, staring at reports which show inflation at a 28-month high, officials at the People’s
February 7, 2011 Manila, Philippines Hi this is Tim Staermose, the newest addition at Sovereign Man– Simon asked me to fill in for him today as he is currently hard at work on his presentations for the upcoming workshop. I wanted to tell you a bit about a business opportunity I just came
