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Most Popular Articles About Sovereign Man & Simon Black Simon Black introducing himself and Sovereign Man at our office in Santiago, Chile. Hello, I’m glad you stopped by. I’m the founder of Sovereign Man. I’m an international entrepreneur, investor, permanent traveler… and a free man. (Privacy is an essential component of freedom, so I’ve long written under the pen name of Simon Black.) On average, I travel to over 40 countries per year…doing business, investing, exploring emerging markets, and establishing and maintaining important relationships. Just to give you a brief snapshot, some of the things I’ve done recently include… Starting my own private investment bank Negotiating an eight figure financing deal with one of the largest financial institutions in […] -- How to increase your freedom and prosperity Learn how to achieve more freedom and more prosperity with simple, legal, no-brainer strategies. -- Free Videos & Reports Access valuable, premium intelligence you won't find anywhere else in our highly actionable free guides, reports and videos. -- Offshore Banking: The Definitive Guide With Four Excellent Options The most extensive and detailed guide on how, where and why to bank offshore that exists today. Inside you'll learn which offshore banks are the best and accept foreigners (even Americans). -- Second Passport: Four Passports ANYONE Can Obtain A Second Passport is not just for the "James Bond" and super wealthy of this world. The truth is that it’s possible for ANYONE to obtain dual citizenship. 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And every time Bush told that lie, I thought about […] -- Thirteen years ago my life changed forever Thirteen years ago my life changed forever. Colin Powell, then US Secretary of State and the most credible person in George W. Bush’s cabinet, made the case for war in Iraq on February 5, 2003. As a young military intelligence officer at the time, watching from a makeshift army base in Kuwait not far from the Iraq border. Back then I was a true believer, trusting that the government was a force for good “making the world safe for democracy. . .” But that night it all changed. Powell told the world unequivocally that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, an assertion that history has proven categorically wrong. But within the […] -- Debt is the barbarous relic. Not gold. July 16, 2015 Kunming, China “The first form of culture,” wrote historian Will Durant, “is agriculture.” And he was right. When human beings discovered 10,000 years ago that the soil would provide more food than they could possibly eat, this changed everything. For the first time ever, early humans could actually work WITH nature and reliably control their food production. They were no longer dependent on unpredictable wildlife or the dangers of the hunt. Nor were they resigned to devouring an entire beast in one sitting, only to end up right back where they started– in search of their next meal. Agriculture gave them the opportunity to produce far more […] -- The biggest gold heist of all time In 524 BC, a group of pirates set sail for Sifnos, an ancient Greek island famed for its vast gold and silver mines. The mines of Sifnos were unparalleled in the ancient world. They produced so much gold and silver that the local government at Sifnos could erect countless monuments, invest in new public works, and still easily have a substantial balance remaining at the end of each year to distribute to the citizens. When the pirates arrived, they robbed the island of 100 talents of gold, an unfathomable sum at the time. In the ancient world, a talent was a unit of weight equivalent to 26 kilograms, or about […] -- This virtually guarantees that your taxes are going through the roof Ever since I was a kid, I always knew that cancer runs deep in my family. My father died more than a decade ago of a horrible brain tumor. His father had cancer. Both of my mother’s parents died of cancer. I knew all of this before I even understood what cancer was. Not willing to leave the issue to genetic luck, though, my mother started educating my sister and I to make healthy decisions even when we were very young. And I’ve heeded these lessons throughout my life. I almost exclusively eat healthy, vitamin-rich, organic food (most of which I grow myself here in Chile). I don’t smoke. I […] -- Are you free? Here is what freedom really means... On January 26, 1841, two years into the First Opium War between China’s Qing Dynasty and the British Empire, Commodore Sir Gordon Bremer hoisted the British flag above Possession Point in Hong Kong. At the time the island’s population numbered less than 10,000. Most were illiterate fishermen. Hong Kong was also devoid of any meaningful natural resources except for well-placed geography. So when the war ended in 1842 and British diplomats formally annexed Hong Kong into their empire, they turned it into a free port almost immediately. This means that no taxes were charged on goods traded in Hong Kong—an anomaly back then. Governments routinely squeezed trading posts for tax […] -- My partner found $57 million in a random corner of Asia [Introduction from Simon: We’ve got one more investing Notes tod...