Author of the bestelling
The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros, Mark Tier was the founder of the investment newsletter
World Money Analyst, which he published until 1991, the author of
Understanding Inflation and
The Nature of Market Cycles. Since 1991, he's helped start five new (and highly successful) investment publications. When he adopted the the winning investment habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros himself, he sold all his business interests and now lives solely from the returns on his investments. His most recent books including
Trust Your Enemies, a political thriller which is “Up there with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and “Worthy of Ayn Rand” according to reviews on Amazon.com, and
Ayn Rand's 5 Surprisingly Simple Rules for Judging Political Candidates.
Imagine we’re on a plane; we’ve crossed an ocean, we’ve landed; we’re taxiing up to the gate. As we file off the plane we have our passports ready.
But something rather strange happens: no one wants to look at them. We see no official-looking types of any kind.
Welcome to Freelandia, a country—perhaps it’s better to call it a place—which is truly free: there’s no government to invade and restrict our liberties. Of course, Freelandia doesn’t exist (yet) except in my imagination.
And in science fiction, the literature of the imagination
The Reluctant Virgin In 1990 I set up shop in Hong Kong as a psycho-therapist. With no licencing laws, there were no barriers to entry. By the same token, the fact that I had no degree in psychology, or other paper qualifications, meant that clients were few and far between. Nevertheless, I had a handful…
Socialism Begins at Home “Everyone wants to be FREE!” True or False? A while back I was talking to a young woman who’d run away from home when she was 16. “Why did you run away?” I asked her. “Because I wanted to be free,” she answered. And after a moment added: “Everyone wants to…
“Monster” versus “Shadow” This is a commentary on the session with “Andrew” documented in Transforming the “Monster” Within. The shadow cannot be eliminated. It is the ever-present dark brother or sister.(1) “Shadow” is a term from Jungian psychology, and it seems appropriate to call Andrew’s Monster his Shadow part. However, had we taken a Jungian approach…
Transforming the “Monster” Within In 1990 I set up shop in Hong Kong as a psycho-therapist. With no licencing laws, there were no barriers to entry. By the same token, the fact that I had no degree in psychology, or other paper qualifications, meant that clients were few and far between. Nevertheless, I had a…
Give Me Liberty is a collection of classic science fiction stories I co-edited with Martin H. Greenberg. It was published by Baen Books in January 2003
Until the 1990s, there was next to no unemployment in Hong Kong. Here’s why.
And why, today, there is
Float the Hong Kong Dollar? Wait a minute…I want to sell it short first! When the Thai baht collapsed in July 1997 other Asian currencies fell like dominoes. Only the Hong Kong dollar and the Chinese yuan remained standing. The voices calling for the Hong Kong dollar’s “peg” to the US dollar to be abandoned became…
Hong Kong’s Money Panic Around midday on Friday September 23rd, 1983, the latest round of Sino-British talks in Peking on the subject of Hong Kong’s future concluded. Very quickly it became apparent in Hong Kong that no progress had been made. The announcements that were were no announcements sparked a run on the Hong Kong…
In the run-up to the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, I was often asked my views on Hong Kong’s future. This article, written in 1991, was my response.