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The story of things to come…

Reporting from Hanoi, Vietnam I’m not much of a fiction reader, but about two years ago a friend turned me on to a couple of books by Daniel Suarez– Daemon, and its sequel Freedom. I won’t ruin the plot, but it’s an excellent story with gripping insights into what the future could look

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Is this passport a total scam?

April 26, 2013 Koh Samui, Thailand The flight from Penang to Koh Samui is quick. And it’s incredibly cheap. Unlike their Western counterparts, Asian discount air carriers actually walk the walk. You can zip around the region for flights often costing just $50 to 100. And it’s well worth it, there is much

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When leaving is the only sane choice left…

April 25, 2013 George Town, Penang, Malaysia Though few people have heard of Penang today, it once ranked among the most opulent destinations in the world. Ceded to the British East India Company in 1786, Penang was a critical trading hub for European imperialists; it thrived as a free port along critical eastern

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“The battlefield is the United States of America”

April 24, 2013 George Town, Penang, Malaysia When you’ve got a guy like Senator John McCain who says “The battlefield is the United States of America,” it tells you that almost nothing is safe in the Land of the Free. Whatever remains of civil liberties is going to feel the full brunt of

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Price Controls Coming

The next shoe to drop: Internet sales tax to become reality

April 23, 2013 Phnom Penh, Cambodia Surprise, surprise… the completely insolvent US government has yet another idea to raise revenue in the Land of the Free: a new tax! The Marketplace Fairness Act was introduced some time ago, and we’ve discussed it before. But it’s now being rushed through Congress as quickly as

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The one thing that governments do really well–

April 22, 2013 Phnom Penh, Cambodia In the killing fields outside of Phnom Penh, you can still see bone fragments protruding from the ground. It’s harrowing to say the least. Roughly two million people were wantonly massacred in the 1970s under the rule of Pol Pot, decimating not only the population but also

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It’s still rock bottom cheap here…

April 19, 2013 Jakarta, Indonesia Whoever said “it’s a small world” never flew across the Pacific. The flight from Santiago to Sydney is a mind-numbing 14 hours. And then it’s another 8 to Jakarta. Yet along the way are vast stretches of civilizations, resources, and amazing opportunities. No, the world is a wonderfully

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Important lessons in domestic terrorism

April 18, 2013 Jakarta, Indonesia   In the first century AD, the Roman Empire was up to its eyeballs in domestic terrorism. The biggest threat was a tiny Judaic sect known as the Zealots who routinely conducted public attacks, even against other Jews who didn’t agree with their views. This is actually where

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The one reason why gold’s sell-off doesn’t matter…

April 15, 2013 Sydney, Australia Somewhere, Paul Krugman is smiling. The Nobel Prize winning economist, whose brilliant ideas include: spending your way out of recession borrowing your way out of debt conjuring unprecedented amounts of currency out of thin air without consequence staging a false flag alien invasion of planet Earth is perhaps

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Check out this billionaire’s New Zealand Hideaway

[Editor’s note: Tim Staermose, Sovereign Man’s Chief Investment Strategist, is filling in for Simon today from Bay of Islands, New Zealand.] The wealthy have been diversifying internationally for centuries. Baron de Rothschild famously sent four of his five sons to different points of the compass: one to London, one to Paris, one to

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What Peter Schiff told me this morning…

As mentioned yesterday about our recent Offshore Tactics Workshop it was easily the most exhausting yet exhilarating thing I’ve done. I’ve now retreated from the bustle of the big city to my Sovereign Valley farm for some rest and reflection, and yesterday I had the pleasure of hosting Peter Schiff and his wife

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Could this possibly be real?

Historic is the only word I think you could use to describe it. Just imagine the scene: Ron Paul, Jim Rogers, Nigel Farage, Jim Rickards, and Peter Schiff, all on stage at the same time, Saturday night, in Santiago, Chile. This was so fantastical that when we posted the photo of the group

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South Korea

A second passport you’d probably never think of

Over dinner with a friend in Busan, South Korea yesterday, the conversation turned to residency and second citizenships. My friend is a successful entrepreneur who’s lived in South Korea ever since I first met him in 1996. Right now, he has an investors’ visa. The requirements are simple; when he got his, an

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Costa Rica

This is what happens when you don’t have reserve currency status

[Editor’s note: Tim Staermose, Sovereign Man’s Chief Investment Strategist is filling in for Simon today from San Jose, Costa Rica.] It’s easy to see why people like Costa Rica so much. The country is gorgeous, and the climate can be excellent. There are plenty of cooling breezes to keep it comfortable year-round, despite

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Yesterday I learned about this great residency loophole

Yesterday I had the opportunity to break bread with a good friend of mine who is an alumnus of the Startup Chile entrepreneurship program. This is a really unique program that the government launched in 2010 at the behest of one of Chile’s leading entrepreneurs. In its first few months, Startup Chile brought

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