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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
High quality, low cost, no hassle medical care in Thailand August 27, 2014 Bangkok, Thailand I’m still a little bit stunned by what just happened. 30 minutes and $73 later, I just walked out of what was -technically- a hospital, but was much closer to an upscale business lounge at a modern airport.
July 30, 2014 En route to Estonia The last few years have not been kind to European property markets, to put it mildly. Ireland, Spain, and Portugal, for example, experienced property bubbles and collapses even more severe than what happened in the US. It was gruesome. But while some areas have recovered, others
July 4, 2014 Kiev, Ukraine In one of the most ill-timed columns ever written, Fortune Magazine published an article entitled “10 stocks to last the decade” on August 14, 2000. The NASDAQ Composite Index was at 3849.69… and within days of the article being published, the index would begin a ruthless decline, taking
June 20, 2014 Bangkok, Thailand What do you get when you mix Bitcoin Jesus, Marriott, St. Kitts, and terrorists? I’m afraid we’ll all find out soon. It wasn’t but a month ago that I told you about the US government’s opening salvo against the St. Kitts economic citizenship program. They’re trying to patch
June 16, 2014 Shanghai, China According to a new Gallup pole, a record amount of Americans now disapprove of President Obama. Now, this is nothing new. Presidential approval ratings go up and down, and Mr. Obama has had a long-term slide thanks to… oh, I don’t know… a total avalanche of foul-ups ranging
June 13, 2014 Rome One of the things I’ve concluded from traveling to over 100 countries is that human beings are largely the same everywhere in the world. Obviously, cultural differences abound. But from Saudi Arabia to Tanzania to Palau to Venezuela to Bangladesh, people everywhere love their children. They strive for happiness.
May 19, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile In the early 16th century, a priest by the name of Fray Francisco de Ugalde remarked to his king that Spain was “el imperio en el que nunca se pone el sol”. In other words, the sun never set on the Spanish Empire. And by the
April 17, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile Today is a pretty great day for Team Sovereign Man. As I’ve mentioned before, we’ve got a very close-knit team down here in Chile– people from all over the world. They hail from places like Slovenia, Lithuania, Ukraine, New Zealand, Argentina, Thailand, etc. Now as we’ve
Cartagena, Colombia: Because of a $47 dispute the whole world got to know about Cartagena, a city on Colombia’s Caribbean coast. For all the wrong reasons, unfortunately. Two years ago Cartagena hosted the Summit of the Americas, a get-together of all heads of state for countries from North, Central, and South America, bar
February 28, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile “Hey I just wanted to let you know, a guy from the local government was here today…” That was one of the first phone calls I received from the manager of this place just a few days after I had taken over this farm a couple
February 27, 2014 Medellin, Colombia $1 billion. That’s how much the old Medellin drug cartel under Pablo Escobar used to lose annually to rats that would eat the currency stored in their warehouses. At its height, the cartel was smuggling 15 tons of cocaine per year into the US. And its leader Pablo
February 10, 2014 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile 631 people renounced their US citizenship in the 4th quarter of 2013. This is an entire order of magnitude higher than the 45 people who renounced in 4Q/2012. And in total, 3,000 Americans renounced their citizenship in 2013– another record high. The previous record (1,777) was
February 4, 2014 Pucon, Chile In my travels to 100+ countries over the years, I’ve discovered that there is an indubitable abundance of great places to be. There are rapidly developing countries in Asia right now on the cusp of massive social and economic transformations, replete with huge opportunities for investors and entrepreneurs.
December 30, 2013 Santiago, Chile Recently, we’ve discussed several different economic citizenship programs around the world. And while these programs are not for everyone due to their higher costs, they have all surfaced at the same time, and I would be derelict in my duties to not to inform you about these options.
