Jeff Berwick
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Edmonton
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, Alberta
Alberta
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) is a Canadian entrepreneur, economics, finance, and investment writer, and libertarian
Libertarian
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/anarchist activist.
Jeff Berwick founded StockHouse Media Corporation in 1994, raising over $40 million USD in financing and growing the company to a peak of more than 200 employees in 8 countries worldwide by 2000.
StockHouse continues to be the most active financial website in Canada, ranking No. 1 in February, 2007, by comScore
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Media Metrix Ad Focus report - beating out Globe Finance, Yahoo! Canada Finance and Sympatico/MSN Finance - in the areas of pages per visitor and average minutes per visitor in the business/finance news and research category.
Berwick was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 1999. In 1999 and 2000, Berwick was recognized by Business in Vancouver's "Top 40 under 40" ranking.
Jeff Berwick has been a regular contributor to editorials on the StockHouse websites from 1995 to present and contributes to numerous popular libertarian and finance sites including LewRockwell.com
LewRockwell.com
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and writes a libertarian, Austrian economics focused financial newsletter called The Dollar Vigilante. He is the host of Anarchast, an anarchist video and audio podcast show. He is also a regular speaker at international investing, finance and liberty conferences including Libertopia , the San Francisco Hard Assets Show, New York Hard Assets Show, PDAC and the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference.
He is the owner of AcaCondos an Acapulco based real estate company as well as the owner of Las Torres Gemelas Private Suites, a boutique hotel in Acapulco.
In June, 2005, Berwick was in the process of circumnavigating the world in his 35' sailing catamaran when he was caught in a storm and the ship was sunk, leaving Berwick on his surfboard, later to be rescued with minor injuries by other sailors near Jiquilisco Bay
Jiquilisco Bay
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, El Salvador
El Salvador
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