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Monday, May 21st, 2012• No Asphalt and Lots of WiFi. I took a picture today I want you to see … That’s a cove along Nicaragua’s Emerald Coast, a stretch along Central America’s piece of the Pacific Ocean just a few miles north of Costa Rica. It’s a place where the tourist infrastructure is lacking. Where packed-dirt roads [...]
Sovereign Digest – 5/13/12
Monday, May 14th, 2012Revisiting the Year of Yield. Those silly socialists … they’ve put into power left-leaning, anti-austerity leaders in France and Greece, and somehow think debt-addled nations just need a good ol’ heaping of new debt to spark some growth and get out from under all that old debt. If only American Express and Visa allowed consumers [...]
Sovereign Digest – 5/6/12
Monday, May 7th, 2012Is Private Banking Dead? After the 2008 crisis, banks took on a new personality. Rather than trust the guy or gal behind the desk, many of us became suspicious and worried. We realized that many of us were banking with a casino – financial responsibility was unheard of … they wanted us to gamble the [...]
An Interview with Leslie Campbell
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When Will They Come for Your Chickens?
Monday, April 30th, 2012Every so often you come across a story that resonates so deeply that you want to share it with everyone you know. This is that story. We reprint below – with permission from our colleagues at Laissez-Faire Books (http://lfb.org/today/) – the story of Andrew Wordes. I had previously heard nothing about the tragic and remarkable [...]
Sovereign Digest – 4/22/12
Monday, April 23rd, 2012Wanted: Master welder for six-figure salary working in the fun – and dangerous – world of highly flammable explosives.That’s probably not a real ad we’d expect to read anywhere. It is, however, a real job – one that goes wanting for a qualified candidate. A buddy of mine in the executive ranks of a chemical [...]
Sovereign Digest – 4/15/12
Sunday, April 15th, 2012Have you received your coupon? China’s having a sale on stocks. No one sees it that way, of course. No one would ever equate the rarefied world (wink, wink) of investing with the pedestrian world of saving 10 cents on a can of Chef Boyardee at the Pik-n-Pak. Too bad. It’s a great way to [...]
Sovereign Digest – 4/8/12
Sunday, April 8th, 2012Uncle Sam is digging deeper into our lives.Every year at tax time I have certain tax documents I know I need to fill out to let the government know about my overseas investments. But this year, Uncle Sam unleashed a new form I had no clue about until my CPA called. And it’s clear not [...]
Sovereign Digest 4/1/12
Sunday, April 1st, 2012Since when is a presidential election a national emergency? Clearly, our sitting president is of the mindset that his return to the White House is so important to America that he’ll pull all levers necessary to ensure his mailing address remains the same after November 6. That’s the only reason the “Prez” would consider tapping [...]
Sovereign Digest – 3/25/12
Sunday, March 25th, 2012We are crossing the globe this week… so today we’re sharing some of our most popular Sovereign Digest nuggets. “Never in our history has the United States defaulted on its debt.” That’s what Mr. Obama stated a few months ago in a town hall speech berating Republicans about the risks of holding America hostage to [...]
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