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August 14, 2015 Istanbul, Turkey Just a few weeks ago, US talk show host Stephen Colbert was asked if he thought that Donald Trump had a chance of becoming President of the United States. Colbert responded sincerely. “Honestly, he could. And that’s not an opinion of Trump. That’s my opinion
Istanbul, Turkey August 13, 2015 Four years ago, just as he was about to board a flight to Hong Kong, Ai Wei Wei was stopped by border officials and had his passport confiscated. As an outspoken anti-government activist, the Chinese artist was no stranger to government threats. But this time
August 12, 2015 Istanbul, Turkey As the saying goes, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” (… to which George W. Bush famously added after flubbing the aphorism on live TV, “can’t fool me again!”) For months, despite every shred of data pointing to a
August 11, 2015 Istanbul, Turkey When I was a kid, I ‘accidentally’ lit my parent’s living room carpet on fire. A friend of theirs had been over the night before and left his cigarette lighter on the coffee table. And as I had never seen such magical technology before as
August 10, 2015 Bali, Indonesia [Editor’s note: Sovereign Man’s Chief Investment Strategist Tim Staermose is filling in today while Simon is teaching at his annual youth entrepreneurship workshop.] In 1970, one United States dollar bought 360 Japanese yen. It also bought 363 Indonesian rupiah. Today, that same dollar buys just
August 6, 2015 Vilnius Lithuania Here’s a great example of how an important rule that may affect your life gets BURIED within a giant piece of legislation— At first glance the Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015 doesn’t seem like it should have any impact
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