Years ago, Doug Casey mentioned in a correspondence to me, “Empires fall from grace with alarming speed.” Every now and then, you receive a comment that, although it may have been stated casually, has a lasting effect, as it offers uncommon insight. For me, this was one of those and it’s one that I’ve kept […]
Continue readingInternational Man: Prior to World War I, you didn’t need a passport to travel internationally. The ability for a free human being to travel without having to obtain government permission was a self-evident truth. But that’s not how the modern passport system works. Today, in order to travel, you need a passport, probably with one […]
Continue readingInternational Man: For centuries, wealthy people have used international diversification to protect their savings and themselves from out-of-control governments. Now, thanks to modern technology, anyone can implement similar strategies. Doug, I’d like to discuss some of the basic ways regular people can internationally diversify their savings. For an American, what’s the difference between having a […]
Continue readingThe reader may be familiar with the Russian parable of the frog and the scorpion. A flood occurs and a scorpion finds himself on a small, dry patch of land, but will soon drown when the water rises. He sees a frog and says to him, “Please save me, I cannot swim. If I could […]
Continue readingInternational Man: Former Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi once warned that “Europe runs the risk of turning black from illegal immigration… it could turn into Africa.” Since the United States and NATO helped overthrow Ghaddafi in 2011, millions of migrants from Africa and the Middle East have poured into Europe. Many transited from Libya. This is […]
Continue readingDoug Casey’s Note: I first met Kolja at Hans-Herman Hoppe’s famous economic conference in Turkey several years ago. It was immediately obvious we saw the world the same way. And needless to say I joined his rather exclusive Extreme Traveler International Congress. In a world increasingly polluted by cupcakes, snowflakes, SJWs, and similar PC types, […]
Continue readingAt this point, virtually all of us over the age of forty have encountered enough “snowflakes” (those Millennials who have a meltdown if anything they say or believe is challenged) to understand that, increasingly, young people are being systemically coddled to the point that they cannot cope with their “reality” being questioned. The post-war baby […]
Continue readingFor some time, I’ve been saying that the economy is in the “eye of the storm” and that when it emerged, the weather would be far rougher than in 2008. The trillions of currency units created since 2007, combined with artificially suppressed interest rates, have papered over the situation. But only temporarily. When the economy […]
Continue readingAn often-overlooked ingredient of international diversification is spreading your digital presence across multiple friendly jurisdictions. Just as obtaining a second passport or an offshore bank account can help you obtain significant political diversification benefits, so too can moving your digital presence to multiple jurisdictions. Most of us today have a significant digital presence, in both […]
Continue readingWhy not? It’s not yours. Most people assume that, if they have money on deposit in a bank, they own that money. That’s not necessarily the case. Decades ago, some of the world’s most powerful countries began to pass legislation that, if you deposit money in the bank, it becomes the property of the bank. […]
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