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An easy way to bank in the Channel Islands

June 22, 2010 Oxford, England In our daily conversations, we talk a lot about planting multiple flags– this is the practice of diversifying sovereign risk in order to protect or asses and our assets. After all, sovereign risk is the greatest risk we face today as investors, entrepreneurs, professionals, and free individuals. Governments

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What the World Cup tells us about multiple flags

June 21, 2010 London, UK While I have been traveling around Latin America and Europe for the last few weeks, there has been one constant in my travels: World Cup football. I’m not a huge fan of the sport, but as an amateur athlete I appreciate the excitement and spectacle of international competition,

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Why we’re up 30% on our gold/euro position

May 12, 2010 Undisclosed Location First of all, I really want to thank all the well-wishers who were kind enough to write me and wish me luck on my operation yesterday. Everything went off without a hitch, and I’m already feeling much better. I will unfortunately need to stay in place for a

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Questions: Seychelles, GoldMoney.com, Italian passport, Thai hospitals

March 12, 2010 Pattaya, Thailand Greetings once again from the land of smiles. First of all, I really appreciate all the responses after yesterday’s letter in which I announced that I will be speaking at the upcoming Casey Research Crisis and Opportunity Summit. I’m really looking forward to meeting with so many of

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How to invest like an “unprincipled speculator”

March 10, 2010 Pattaya, Thailand Yesterday I apparently declared a premature end to major combat operations against the virus that has invaded my body.  Maybe it was just the celebratory Mexican food I ate last night to commemorate the end of my 4-day sickness, but I now seem to be experiencing my own

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This currency is overvalued

Burgers make better economic indicators than official statistics ever could. As I travel, I typically perform an informal price study of my own basket of consumer goods– a loaf of bread, a pack of cigarettes, a liter of petrol, and a handful of… non-family friendly wares. This is the type of information that

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