What Ron Paul Told Me About the End of Dollar Hegemony

By Nick Giambruno, Editor, International Man

I spent the past weekend in Tucson for the Casey Research 2013 Summit, indeed a memorable and information-packed experience. It was truly a pleasure to meet with everyone who joined us.

Notably, it was extremely encouraging to meet so many intelligent people who had taken concrete steps to internationalize their savings and obtain a second passportand thus reducing their exposure to whatever happens in their home countries.

Doug Casey kicked things off with a look at the striking parallels between the rise and fall of Rome and the rise and fall of the US.

In a way, Doug reminded me of the video below, which I stumbled across recently and which I highly recommend that you view. It shows, in a little over three minutes, how the borders of Europe have changed over the past 1,000 years.

It is an amazing and concise illustration of how, contrary to popular opinion, the borders of political entities are anything but permanent. In a historical perspective, nations and national boundaries tend to have as much permanence as a double cheeseburger placed in front of Chris Christie.

It is for this reason (and many others) that I believe you should internationalize various aspects of your life and not totally bind your future to any particular nation-state.

At the Summit I also had the chance to do something that I had wanted to do for a long timesit down with Ron Paul for an informal (but in-depth) discussion on what I believe to be his most important speech.

It is a speech that many, even most libertarians, have never heard. This is because it occurred in 2006, before Ron had really broken through on the national level, and during an otherwise dull session of Congress.

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What Ron Paul Told Me About the End of Dollar Hegemony