Here Are 3 Countries Where You’ll Want To Have Exposure
January 4, 2012 Seat 5F, Undisclosed location at 35,000 feet Most of us have grown up steadily ingesting a hearty line of crap that has made its way into the social consciousness. Governments can’t go...
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How To Check Up On Your Broker
January 20, 2012 Santiago, Chile First, Louise asks, “Simon, that last edition of SMC really blew me away, I appreciate you serving up such great boots on the ground intelligence for me so...
View ArticleWestern Policymakers Are Doing The Exact Opposite Of What South Korea And...
January 27, 2012 Manila, Philippines [Editor's note: Tim Staermose is filling in today while Simon is at the farm in Chile.] There is a delicious irony in the world of economic policy at the moment....
View ArticleHere's Why Singapore Will Soon Be The Best Place To Invest Gold
It’s official. Starting October 1, 2012, Singapore will be the best place in the world to store gold. As a major international financial center, Singapore is rapidly becoming THE place to invest and...
View ArticleThe US Dollar Is Creating Huge Problems For One Central American Country
March 8, 2012 Panama City, Panama I’ve been having breakfast at Cafe Manolo’s ever since I started coming to Panama, going on ten years now. They make the best ‘batido’ ever… it’s sort of like a milk...
View ArticleA Humorous Glossary Of Important Financial Terms
[Editor's note: Tim Price, a frequent Sovereign Man contributor and Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management in London, is filling in for Simon today.] BANK, n. Bottomless cavity in the ground...
View ArticleBLING: 3 Reasons Why Platinum Will Continue Its Monster 2012 Rally
March 14, 2012 Manila, Philippines [Editor’s note: Sovereign Man Chief Investment Strategist Tim Staermose is filling in for Simon today.] Back in mid-December, I called buying platinum the “most...
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This Might Be One Of The Easiest Places In The World To Get A Second Citizenship
March 15, 2012 Santiago, Chile In advance of St. Patrick’s day coming up this weekend, I thought I’d spend some time today talking about the second best thing to come out of Ireland– its nationality...
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These Two Countries Are Great Examples Of Why Small Governments Work
April 2, 2012 Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada After a long trip up from Santiago and making stops in both Miami and Dallas, I arrived to Vancouver last night a bit tired… but excited for the the...
View Article4 Signs Asia Is Rising Over The Western World
April 3, 2012 Hong Kong Six centuries ago, when London and Paris were irrelevant, plague-infested backwaters, and New York City wasn’t even on the map, the greatest city in the world was Nanjing– the...
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Five Places Where Your Bloodline Will Get You A Second Citizenship
April 24, 2012 Santiago, Chile I awoke this morning to an excited email from a longtime friend who wrote, “Guess who is going to be officially confirmed as a Polish citizen next month? Yours truly!...
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Stephen King's Rant About Paying Too Little Taxes Is Total Crap
May 2, 2012 Santiago, Chile Stephen King (yes, that Stephen King) is fired up. Angry. Furious. Why? Because he doesn’t get to pay enough income tax. It’s not enough that King could simply write a...
View ArticleThe Best Place To Buy Agricultural Land Is In This South American Country
May 7, 2012 Asuncion, Paraguay Long-time readers know that I’m unabashedly bullish on agriculture. The supply and demand fundamentals for food speak for themselves, but let’s briefly review: On the...
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There Are Many Reasons Renouncing Swiss Citizenship Is A Dumb Move
May 11, 2012 Undisclosed location Former US Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann receives the Sovereign Man dumbest person of the week award for obtaining… then almost immediately...
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America's Debt-To-GDP Ratio Over The Last 100 Years In One Graphic
June 8, 2012 en route to San Francisco When you hear two politicians in the U.S. going toe-to-toe arguing about public finances (i.e. money that isn’t theirs), they’ll often cite numbers published by...
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How To Move Your Money Out Of A Country You Think Is About To Collapse
There are consequences to being flat broke. There are consequences to investing any level of confidence in a financial system underpinned by debt and the creation of paper currency. There are...
View ArticleCITI: Here Are 3 Greek Exit Scenarios
Everyone is pretty aware of the terrible situation Greece is in and with their newly elected anti-bailout leadership, it’s highly likely that they will leave the EU. In a recent analysis of the...
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Americans Are Delusionally Optimistic
June 19, 2012 Vilnius, Lithuania Exactly three years ago, we launched this daily e-letter… and needless to say, it’s been eventful. It should be clear by now that the topics we routinely discuss in...
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Statistics Show Biometric Scans Don't Make Us Safer
There has been a continuously growing movement to implement international identifications and a more centralized system of tracking people. Politicians have stated that measures like face-recognition...
View ArticleJunior Mining Stocks Are Not For The Faint Of Heart
July 20, 2012 Kiev, Ukraine Bruce Lee, one of the most focused and driven human beings to have ever lived, passed away 39 years ago on this day. He went way before his time. As a kid, I idolized the...
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