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George Grant World If [Davidson and Rees-Mogg's] amazing track record for sheer prescience holds true, this may be their most revolutionary book yet....This disturbing book will stimulate your thinking, broaden your horizons, and illumine your conversations for quite some time to come. And just maybe it will provide the impetus necessary for you to get out of debt, set our financial house in order, and prepare for the uncertain days ahead.

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James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg edit Strategic Investment, one of the world's more widely circulated private investment letters. Davidson is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur, with investments in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and New Zealand, as well as high-tech projects in North America. Rees-Mogg was formerly editor of The Times of London and vice chairman of the BBC. He is a director of the Private Bank of London. Together they authored Blood in the Streets: Investment Profits in a World Gone Mad and The Great Reckoning.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Touchstone
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ Feb. 4 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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  • Reviewed in Canada on April 22, 2022
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    The authors explain that the first stage of society, Hunting and Gathering, worked for eons. The second stage, Agriculture, spread over millennia, and the third stage, Industrial, took centuries. The fourth stage, Information, will happen during a lifetime. The authors foresaw that individuals will be liberated to educate and motivate themselves, allowing genius to flourish. Cyberspace will render race, gender, age, sexual proclivity, and appearance to be unimportant. Cryptocurrency will prompt power-hungry politicians to lie, tax excessively, and print money that causes inflation. The authors foresee an eventual breakdown of nation states. Their final analyses ends with a hope of optimism. This book was written in 1997 and follows their book, The Great Reckoning. I wish they could write a sequel today.
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  • Reviewed in Canada on April 27, 2024
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    I read a fews first chapters, it does blow my mind how accurate and insightful it is. Recommend for everyone who wants to survive the new era !
  • Reviewed in Canada on May 30, 2023
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    The authors foresaw the current crypto phenomenon but, unfortunately, failed to anticipate the lengths governments would go to thwart human freedom.
  • Reviewed in Canada on June 29, 2021
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    Other than the Y2K portion near the beginning, which after the introduction I skipped for sake of relevancy - I will add that as the authors discuss potential consequences, they brushed lightly on what physical and digital attacks on Information infrastructure might look like, only touching upon consequences, but a few incidents that are more practically comparable that occurred this past year: Colonial pipeline, Suez tanker, the Nashville van bomb to name a few off the top of my head follow the similar vein of the Y2K sections covered in this book.

    There is a great fount of practical knowledge in this book for any person wishing to empower themselves through a reconceptualization of their identity as it relates to the taxes paid for services rendered, and other pesky problems that come with being a citizen. I think they had rich and powerful people in mind when they were conceiving the idea of the sovereign individual, but the principles will apply for less wealthy people that still wish to graduate out of the Industrial Age economy structure and into the Information Age economy.

    My advice for anyone reading this book for the sake of self-empowerment: begin to think of yourself as your own nation-state, with varying institutional organs, roles, and functionalities that require the same delicate maintenance as any civil government (i.e. develop your executive functions, and pursue the various ministerial hats as they apply to you as at the micro-level of the individual). The second piece is to develop clear conditions for your behaviours and reactions within clear procedures that will effectively become your laws of war and laws of peace, and continuously reflect (read: test the veracity) on your values and whether they continue to be worthy of inclusion within your personal constitution.

    Be the mind of many minds, but when you act, be of one mind. And finally, politics isn't a zero-sum game, make allies because they're better than enemies - but war is a natural human condition that is best dealt with soberly and pragmatically. Win before you need to fight, and help others find their own personal victories in the same manner. Raise your neighbours up, and you won't feel threatened or insecure by them.
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  • Reviewed in Canada on November 5, 2017
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    If you are here in late 2017 or after, and were lead here by the rise of cryptocurrency, I highly recommend you buy this book and read it. When you are done reading it, I recommend just as highly that you should go back and read all the old reviews of this book. It will give amazing insight into how people perceived their predictions in 1997-early 2000's.
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  • Reviewed in Canada on November 3, 2021
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    Amazing book. Thought provoking. Might change your life
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  • Reviewed in Canada on November 30, 2001
    The Sovereign Individual was somewhat interesting reading. It would have been more interesting, if it had'nt been written in such an overly complex, over-intellectualized style. With all the rambling rhetoric, if not outright venting, it may as well have been written by the Unabomber.
    I feel that the authors put way too much emphasis on techology, and assume that it's all going to be on thier side. Through all of thier anti-Government, anti-labor rhetoric, they never once acknowledge who invented the computer, the internet, or computer encryption: The US military, the same ones who have maintained a world-wide monopoly on violence for the last 50 years. They assume that all the computer encryption in the world is going to be on thier side, when the NSA (who they never mention ONCE in thier book)has acres of mainframe machines in thier basement, dedicated to decryption, along with some of the best cryptologists and mathematicians in the world.
    What the book inderectly refers to is the flight of capital, and keeping it from taxation, such as what's detailed in Edward Pankaus' book, Hide Your Assets and Disapear, where Americans renounce thier citizenship, get citizenship in another, and stash thier money in a third jurisdiction. I've heard one CPA, specializing in overseas investment say, "Good luck, after Sept. 11". Not that it CAN'T be done in the future.
    While I agree that governments (especially the US) are becoming more predatory with taxation, I think it's stupid to argue that capitalists have been extorted by labor. The 1937 GM strike occured when those workers were being treated like animals. It also fails to mention during it's reference to the 1834 C&O Canal strike that the workers had'nt been paid in SIX months! Just read Howard Zinns', A Peoples' History of the United States for the origins of these labor revolts.
    I agree with most of thier views, however, such as the illiteracy rate in this country, the welfare state, and being in the last cyclical stage of our civilization/international power.
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  • Reviewed in Canada on December 3, 2021
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    mind blowing
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Great content but low quality paper used
    Reviewed in Spain on November 2, 2020
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    Great book and content but sub par quality of the paper used for the pages in this print. Quite cheap paper.
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  • jkirkerx
    5.0 out of 5 stars Should this book be priced at $45K a copy
    Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2023
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    The headline was content in the book, suggesting that the book will never be popular and that the authors expect not to make any money from the book. Very interesting book, where it gives you a lesson in human history, one that wasn't taught to me in public school, and how life hasn't really changed much in 2000 years, where we still depend upon certain things. The authors explain the principals of life, which is protection from violence and plunder, and how to protect yourself, or determine if the price of protection is too great, and you should move. It compares ideologies such as our Liberal Welfare Democracy to Communism, and how politics come into play. It goes into the concepts of money and how it works. After your learn all this, it tries to predict the future and suggest how you should be aware of using this information to benefit yourself in the future.

    I saw this book as an extension to Cash Flow Quadrant, but it is not, for I think Robert Kiyosaki should of read this book first before writing Cash Flow Quadrant. At first this book was hard to read, but I got use to the writing style and can now jam through pages with ease. The density of information within the book is very high, small text that covers most of the pages. I'm only 1/2 way through the book, and can't wait to finish it, so I can read my next book. I wish I would have read this book 20 years ago, but I wasn't aware of it's existence.

    For me, I give this book a 5 star rating, because I can understand the information presented, and actually use it. But you need to be a certain type of person to appreciate this book, for it's not for everyone. This book is meant for one who thinks like a capitalist, someone who is self employed, but an employee would learn a great deal from this book as well, or even one of our politicians in Government.

    If your looking to take your brain to the next level, figure out why we pay taxes, and understand the concepts of inflation and why our nation state does what it does, then buy this book. Otherwise, pick another book.
  • Malte
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating predictions
    Reviewed in Germany on June 16, 2025
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    so many inspiring insights.
    Teaches you to see world in self reliant way.
    Talks about the big industrial countries‘ problems in new age of information.
    Can be guide for life.
  • leno lambert borges
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Information Age is coming
    Reviewed in Brazil on September 29, 2023
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    The Individual will be part of the main revolution in the next decades. Honesty, skills labours and knowledge will be important and essencial
  • Rozzi&rsquo;s
    5.0 out of 5 stars Changes and Prepares One for What May Come
    Reviewed in Australia on October 30, 2024
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    The manner in which the author takes us on a journey through various facets of human civilisation is remarkable. Some of the content here is almost prophetic! I would encourage anyone starting out their career to pick up a business thriller and this is what it is. Written in 1997 when the internet was just on the cusp of taking off, highlighting the emergence of highly skilled and productive self governing individuals - the author challenges the status quo and mentions the decreasing influence of the state in the destiny of a nation. Look to read again and form a book club to share insights from this read and prepare for the digital economy

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