John Pugsley
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John A. Pugsley is an American conservative libertarian political and economics commentator, lecturer[1], and author.
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[edit] Biography
Pugsley was born in Minnesota. He attended El Camino Junior College, the University of Florida, and graduated from UCLA. After serving in the US Army, he spent a year cruising on a 38-foot sailboat, and another year living in Mexico with his wife and children. He then returned to the US and spent the next two decades as a businessman.[2]
In the late 1960s Pugsley entered the investment business, where founded a publishing company (Stratford Press) and wrote his first book, Common Sense Economics. It sold over 150,000 hardcover copies.[3] His second book, The Alpha Strategy (1980), was on the New York Times bestseller list for nine weeks in 1981.[4] Pugsley now distributes a PDF format edition of the book, free of charge.[5] Even after 28 years in circulation (as of 2008), The Alpha Strategy is considered a standard reference on stocking up on food and household goods as a hedge against inflation and future shortages. This has made the book popular with survivalists.[6][7]
In 1975 he began a newsletter on economic and political events, Common Sense Viewpoint (1974), which had 30,000 subscribers at its peak.[8] In 1988 he began publication of John Pugsley's Journal, an investment-economic newsletter covering political, economic, and investment topics.[9]
In the mid-1970s, after reading E.O. Wilson's book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Pugsley began to study evolutionary biology. As his study continued over the subsequent 25 years, Pugsley founded The Bio-Rational Institute.[10]
Pugsley is one of the original members of The Eris Society.[11] In 1997, Pugsley helped to found The Sovereign Society, an international organization dedicated to maintaining the privacy and protecting the wealth and liberty of its members. The society is primarily geared toward expatriate relocation and offshore banking and trusts.[12] Pugsley is currently Chairman of the society[13], and writes a monthly column for their e-newsletter The Sovereign Individual. He also writes for The Daily Reckoninge-newsletter.[14] Pugsley advocates blue water sailing for individuals with an interest in expatriation.[15]
Pugsley formerly lived in Carlsbad, California [16], but now lives aboard a 50-foot sloop called Eris Island. He is married to Kiana Delamare[17] Delamare has written for EscapeArtist.com [18] and the International Living e-newsletter.[19]
According to papers filed with the United States SEC in 1997, Pugsley and Delamare are both Directors of the Minco Metals and Mining Corporation.[20]
Pugsley has a blog that as of 2008 was not frequently updated.[21]
[edit] Books
- Common Sense Economics (1975)
- The Alpha Strategy: The Ultimate Plan of Financial Self-Defense for the Small Investor (1980)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ FreedomFest Speakers List, 2007
- ^ A brief biography of John A. Pugsley
- ^ John Pugsley Biography at WorldNet Daily
- ^ Best Sellers - Time Magazine Best Sellers
- ^ book2 preface
- ^ SurvivalBlog.com mention of Pugsley's book
- ^ SurvivalBlog.com mention of Pugsley's book
- ^ Sovereign Society web page on John Pugsley
- ^ A brief biography of John A. Pugsley
- ^ A brief biography of John A. Pugsley
- ^ The Eris Society
- ^ John Pugsley
- ^ John Pugsley
- ^ John Pugsley's web page at Teh Sovereign Society web site
- ^ Life on Eris Island, part 3, Setting sail at long last: glorious days in the Bahamas
- ^ A brief biography of John A. Pugsley
- ^ Life on Eris Island, part 3, Setting sail at long last: glorious days in the Bahamas
- ^ Life on Eris Island, part 3, Setting sail at long last: glorious days in the Bahamas
- ^ A New Life on the High Seas
- ^ SEC Info - Minco Mining & Metals Corp - 20FR12G - On 5/29/97 - EX-3.C
- ^ John Pugsley - The Anarchist
