Once upon a time there were actually adults in charge…
At 11:15am on July 7, 1919, a US Army convoy consisting of 81 military vehicles departed Washington, DC for a perilous journey to San Francisco. The army convoy wasn’t responding…
‘Real Assets’ are cheaper than they’ve ever been in modern history
I’ve just returned home to Puerto Rico from a wonderful weekend in Panama City, Panama where we hosted an exclusive event for our Total Access members. We chose Panama for…
Future Headline: Pentagon Slashes Veteran Pensions for Undocumented Migrants
In a world brimming with bewildering headlines, we spend a lot of time thinking about the future… and to where all of this insanity leads . “Future Headline Friday” is…
How Fed incompetence will drive inflation higher
Getting my in-laws out of Ukraine last year felt like it was as complicated as planning the Normandy invasion. My wife is Ukrainian, and her family had been stuck in…
The dollar’s international decline is becoming really obvious
On the morning of February 23, 1944, US President Franklin Roosevelt sent an important telegram to two of his key allies overseas– British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin…
Future Headline: NYC Announces Gourmet Solution to Rat-pocalypse
In a world brimming with bewildering headlines, we spend a lot of time thinking about the future… and to where all of this insanity leads . “Future Headline Friday” is…
These people are incapable of playing the long game
On the afternoon of Sunday, June 7, 2020, a 36-year-old Chinese national named Wang Xin was at Los Angeles International Airport waiting to board Air China flight 988 back to…
Future Headline Friday
In a world brimming with bewildering headlines, we spend a lot of time thinking about the future… thinking about where this trajectory leads. So, here is our latest edition of…
America is becoming too broke to fight
George Washington was already on his heels in late 1777. The British army had recently taken New York and Philadelphia, plus Washington had suffered recent defeats at the Battles of…
They’re taking a wrecking ball to the “American Reality”
Last September– a bit more than seven months ago– my father died. Technically he was my step-father, but he was every bit my dad, and I loved him. The loss…
Welcome to “Future Headline Friday”
Today, we’re trying something new and unique. In a world brimming with bewildering headlines, we spend a lot of time thinking about the future… thinking about where this trajectory leads.…
Hard data that confidence in the dollar is cracking
It is becoming increasingly clear that the world is losing faith in the United States dollar… and rapidly turning to alternatives. And that’s a huge deal for the United States.…
We’re done with “gradually”. We’ve now reached the “suddenly” part
By the summer of 1563, all of Britain had plunged into chaos over religion and the Reformation. King Henry VIII broke away from the Catholic church back in the 1530s,…
We’ve waited nearly 15 years for this
Thousands of years ago on the 27th of July, 54 BC, the famed Roman senator Cicero wrote a letter to his friend Atticus complaining about all the corruption and bribery…
Maybe it’s time to think about a different approach…
If you open up U-Haul’s website and have a look at the discount page, you’ll see a huge graphic at the top of the screen advertising “Discounts on One-Way Rentals…
Humanity is on the cusp of a giant (6x) leap forward
On March 11, 2011, an earthquake in the Pacific Ocean caused a tsunami to strike Japan. You probably remember seeing this in the news, because, directly in the path of…
About that “no one is above the law” nonsense…
In late 1999, I was speeding along Interstate 88 in upstate New York, in a big hurry to go see my girlfriend at the time, when I saw flashing red-and-blue…
New government report says Social Security will be broke in 10 years
Paris. Such a romantic city. Sip cafe at a sidewalk bistro, while you take in the wafting smell of burning rubber from the street fires. Take a picture with the…
Why a desperate America may soon annex its 51st state
At the center of Sovereign Man’s core ethos is the indisputable view that the United States is in decline. I take absolutely zero pleasure in writing that statement. But it’s…
I love how everyone pretends the bank crisis is over…
Practically on cue, politicians began their public hearings yesterday about the recent banking crisis. This was so predictable; every time there’s a major crisis, Congressmen book a committee meeting to…
New IRS report provides fascinating glimpse into your “fair share”
Every year the IRS publishes a detailed report on the taxes it collects. And the statistics are REALLY interesting. A few weeks ago the agency released its most recent report.…
What else are the “Experts” ignoring?
In 1898, a Polish author named Jan Bloch published a 3,000+ page volume on modern warfare entitled Future War and its Economic Consequences. Bloch had studied military technology and saw…
The US government has doubled in size. Are you better off?
If you’re old enough to remember— think back to the year 1999. Some of the year’s most popular movies included The Matrix, Fight Club, and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.…
Get Ready for the Distressed Equity Bonanza
This isn’t over yet. Last week after Silicon Valley Bank went poof in a matter of hours, I wrote that this financial catastrophe is just getting started: “Like Lehman Brothers…