If you read this website, odds are that you’re a fan of Chick-fil-A. The restaurant chain, know for its tasty chicken, humorous advertisements, and unwillingness to open on Sundays, is a favorite among conservatives. But other fast food chains are trying to muscle in on Chick-fil-A’s turf and replicate its success. They don’t understand that […]
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The venerable .308 Winchester cartridge has spawned numerous wildcat cartridges since its introduction, with many of them eventually becoming fully-supported commercial cartridges in their own right. While the .243 Winchester may be perhaps the best-known and most popular of those cartridges, other necked-down variants of the .308 Winchester have also become popular in recent years. […]
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While the Chinese central bank’s digital currency plan is perhaps the best known example of the development of a central bank digital currency, it isn’t the only one. Many smaller central banks have already begun to undertake their own cryptocurrency projects. And while major central banks such as the Bank of England and European Central […]
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Holdings of gold in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) hit record highs this week as investors sought to move their assets to safety. Total ETF holdings rose to over 2,570 tonnes, eclipsing the previous high set in 2012. This comes at a time when stock markets are still near their all-time highs, making it unusual that both […]
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Nearly a decade after the United States and its allies ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Libya remains just as unstable as ever. The country remains in the midst of a civil war, with the Government of National Accord (GNA) at war with the Libyan National Army (LNA), among other groups. Elements of the Islamic State […]
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The silver price, unlike the gold price, can be heavily influenced by industrial demand. For a number of years that weighed on the silver price, as demand from the photography industry waned. It seems hard to remember, in the age of digital photography, that we once used cameras with film in them. Once the switch […]
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As Americans prepared to get on with Super Bowl Sunday and completely zone out from the madness going on in Washington, DC, the Senate took a final blow to House Democrats’ attempts to remove President Donald Trump from office. It took just two weeks for the Senate to decide to close the case brought forward […]
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A quote attributed to Japanese Admiral Yamamoto in World War II expresses the impossibility of ever invading the United States, because a rifle would be hiding behind every blade of grass. The ownership and use of firearms is something that successive generations of Americans have cherished, and millions of Americans continue to hold dear. But […]
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With the spread of the Chinese coronavirus around the world, the trend of wearing protective masks to protect against disease has spread worldwide too. We’re all used to seeing pictures of streets in Asia in which everyone is wearing a surgical mask or other sort of face protection. But now the wearing of masks is […]
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Total world gold mine production decreased last year for the first time since 2008. That’s sure to put upward pressure on world gold prices, as increased demand and decreased supply will work together to send gold skyward, perhaps even taking out its all-time high prices in 2020. Production from gold mines has generally increased every […]
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