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The world always has a dominant superpower. And the cycle is always the same:
Empires rise, they peak, they decline, and they fall.
I’m James Hickman (a.k.a. Simon Black). And as an avid student of history, I can tell you that the story of decline you’re witnessing has happened over and over again.
The Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, British, French, Persian, Spanish, Russian, and Mongolian Empires all followed this trajectory…
And now it’s the West’s turn.
The 20th century was dominated by the rise and peak of the Western World, and especially of the “US Empire”… which is reaching its breaking point, financially and otherwise, as we speak…
I first pointed this out in the pages of Sovereign Man starting in 2009, and then onstage at our first Sovereign Man conference in 2011. And I cautioned the audience that they needed a plan — we’ll call it a Plan B — to fireproof their savings. (More on this topic below.)
Twelve years ago, it was a pretty controversial thing to say that the US was in decline, that the dollar would eventually lose its power on the world stage, and that the next generation would suffer.
Why? Because everything seemed OK on the surface. But societal collapses are like that.
To illustrate my point, I used the concept of logarithmic decay, which I learned as a math major at West Point:
Ernest Hemingway captured this idea perfectly in his novel, The Sun Also Rises.
A character called Mike is asked how he went bankrupt.
“Two ways,” he answers. “Gradually, then suddenly.”
Gradually, then suddenly plays out in personal decline. In relationships. And, as it happens, in the decline of empires.
It’s been 12 years since that first Sovereign Man conference in Panama.
And much of what I predicted… has come true:
So yes, the headlines are bleak. But there’s good news, too:
I started Sovereign Man to help people increase their freedom and opportunities. To help them make more money… and keep more of it.
And thousands of our subscribers have achieved just that.
How? By abandoning their serf mentality.
Many of us are born and raised in one single country, beholden to one single government. One tax system. One set of rules. We think we have only one set of choices for where and how we live, work, save, invest, study, and retire.
But this isn’t the 14th century, where the typical serf or peasant lived his entire life within about 30 miles of home.
Today, you can use the entire world as your home base… both literally and figuratively.
For some people, that means picking up and moving to another country. Somewhere cheaper. Or more free. Or both.
Some people, like me, move to a different part of the US in order to legally and dramatically lower our tax burdens. Others move to low-tax states.
In that same vein, my team and I have long encouraged people to seek different “neighborhoods” for their money. You might:
Another critical area where you can really move the needle is with your retirement plan. Social Security is no longer an option for most of us. Fine.
There are other, MUCH better ways to turbocharge your retirement savings. And I’m not talking about that 401(k) you have at work. (We explain this in depth in the pages of Sovereign Man.)
Your time is valuable, so I’ll just mention one other thing:
There is NO better return on your investment… than legally reducing your tax burden.
If you think the government is doing a terrific job with your money, then feel free to skip this part. But if you’d rather not fund a $2.3 million dollar study to inject beagle puppies with cocaine — or worse: $247 billion in payment errors (FY 2022) — then read our reports on how to (sometimes dramatically) reduce your taxable income. (Sign up for our free newsletter, above, for access.)
We are sticklers for following the law and only write about solutions embedded in the tax code itself. The solutions we discuss are 100% legal.
… and much more.
I started Sovereign Man as my way of documenting the discoveries I was making in my travels to 120 countries around the world. I wrote about business opportunities, investment opportunities, citizenship opportunities, and more.
Over the years, those chronicles morphed into a full-service publication company with a suite of solutions… for YOU.
We have spent more than a million dollars, and thousands of hours, developing our solutions.
The goal: to provide solutions that work, no matter what’s going on in the world. (I’ll never be worse off for owning an organic farm in Chile, for example, or for storing a bit of gold overseas. My children, who were born in Mexico, received immediate Mexican citizenship for that. They’ll never be worse off for having more options.)
Our fully international team is based all around the world; most of us live abroad.
Collectively, we hold (dozens) of extra citizenships and foreign residencies. We safeguard our own savings with the asset protection strategies that we present in our research.
We hold hard assets. Where we do look for stock market opportunities, it’s with an international and/or deep value lens.
We look for legal, government-approved ways to save on taxes. We save thousands on excellent higher education for our children, by taking advantage of international arbitrage.
And every week, we comb through hundreds of pages of new legislation, studying the latest updates on our strategies.
We also spend a great deal of time traveling to the places we write about, in person. We network with connected law firms, realtors, tax specialists, citizenship and residency advisors, gaining first-hand insights into the current situation on the ground.
We hold conferences and workshops, both in the US and across the globe. We teach what isn’t taught – especially when it comes to financial literacy, global opportunities, and seeing the entire world as part of your basket of options.
Our solutions create options. The more effective, powerful and numerous your options, the more control you have.
And more control = more freedom.
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Let’s pretend that tomorrow morning we all wake up in Shangri-La. There are no more socio-economic problems. No more threat of global conflict. Society is at peace everywhere. Everybody gets along.
These solutions still work.
You will:
Our solutions work in crises… and in good times.
Perhaps it’s offshore gold storage, second passports, frontier investing, or creating and investing in self-directed IRAs. Whatever the solution, we teach clients how to secure their liberty and prosperity with a rational, intelligent plan.
It’s doubtful we’ll wake up in utopia anytime soon, which makes crafting a solid, actionable Plan B essential.
In fact, if there’s anything we learned from 2020, it’s that Plan B is now Plan A.
Today is the moment to start implementing these powerful solutions.
And by joining Sovereign Man, you can, too.
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