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March 25, 2015 Santiago, Chile Now it’s Austria, Switzerland, and Australia that have joined dozens of other countries around the world in the anti-dollar alliance. These nations, which also include most US ‘allies’ in Western Europe like Germany, France and the UK, have all signed on to be founding members of China’s new
March 24, 2015 Santiago, Chile French paper Le Parisien didn’t mince words in the headline: “La chasse au cash est lancee”. Basically ‘hunting season on cash is launched’. Under the auspices of fighting terrorism, France’s Minister of Finance, Monsieur Michel Sapin, has rolled out a series of eight new restrictions aimed specifically at
March 19, 2015 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile Early last week, I had the privilege of sitting down for dinner with Robert Kiyosaki and his wife Kim. Now, if you’ve never read any of their books, I highly recommend you go check them out, especially Robert’s first book: Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Rich Dad,
March 18, 2015 Santiago, Chile The United States government just went from “Please, baby, don’t leave me,” to frustrated threats and whining. After the UK announced it will join new China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as a founding member late last week, Germany, France and Italy decided yesterday to follow Britain’s lead
March 17, 2015 Santiago, Chile If you’ve ever been to Bangkok, you’ll know that this place has some of the most notoriously horrendous traffic on the face of the earth. It makes the worst LA gridlock look like Plano, Texas. Any seasoned traveler to Thailand has to plan around it. You never leave
March 13, 2015 Willemstad, Curacao In another awkward blow to the rapidly waning US-dollar hegemony, America and Britain just had their “It’s not you, it’s me” moment. Late yesterday, the government of the United Kingdom announced that they would be applying to join the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank… as a founding member.
March 11, 2015 Panama City, Panama If Vladimir Putin is remotely capable of laughter (the jury is out on that one…) then he’s probably doing so right now. Russia is once again Arch-Enemy of the United States. It’s like living through a really bad James Bond movie, complete with cartoonish villains. And for
March 10, 2015 San Juan, Puerto Rico Last night I had the distinct pleasure of addressing a group of distinguished investors who are traveling together at sea for the next week or so on a special retreat. The boat was docked in San Juan for the evening, and I flew halfway across the world
March 6, 2015 Tokyo, Japan You know that we talk a lot about the insane level of government interference in our lives. About what we can and cannot put in our bodies. The amount of interest we’re entitled to receive on our savings. Etc. But I’m noticing now even more ridiculous trends of
March 5, 2015 Tokyo, Japan It’s entirely possible that we may see interstellar space travel in our lifetime. And what a dream that would be. But in the meantime, for anyone that’s losing patience with space technology, I would recommend you visit Japan. Because for anybody that has been here, this place is
March 4, 2015 Bangkok, Thailand When I arrived to Bangkok the other day, coming down the motorway from the airport I saw a huge billboard—and it floored me. The billboard was from the Bank of China. It said: “RMB: New Choice; The World Currency” Given that the Bank of China is more than
March 3, 2015 Bangkok, Thailand Only hours ago, Gallup released a new poll showing that only a small minority (just 17%) of Americans still view the US as the world’s economic superpower. Echoing former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers’ quip, “There is surely something odd about the world’s greatest power being the world’s
March 3, 2015 Bangkok, Thailand Those who have traveled will understand me when I say that you can instantly feel what local people’s attitudes towards you are just from the way they look at you. It’s hard to describe specifically what the differences are… you just feel it. As a traveler this can
February 26, 2015 Singapore Warren Buffett once famously chided that all the gold in the world would form a cube of 67 feet (20 meters) on each side. In doing so, he was attempting to argue that there was no point in owning gold since all the gold in the world would be
February 25, 2015 Singapore In December, Sovereign Man’s Chief Investment Strategist advised our Sovereign Confidential members on a position to take on the RMB. This week we found that this trade is already up by as much as 300%. Now looking at the latest news from China we see that our advice still stands, and even
