Ultimate Assets

Attorney General William Barr has gone on record to ask that all tech companies provide backdoors into their encrypted products. According to Barr, consumers should be willing to accept the risk of being hacked by criminals so that government authorities can have the ability to access their electronic devices at any time. It’s a completely […]

Many of us know that stock markets have always been a poor proxy for judging the health of an economy. But most people do it anyway. When stock markets do well, the economy is judged to be doing well. When stock markets do poorly, the economy is judged to be performing poorly. But what most […]

While we’ve previously profiled the Mexican Gold Libertad coin, its Silver Libertad counterpart is perhaps better known. Mexico’s mining industry has existed for centuries and was long a source of gold and silver for the Spanish Empire. Even today Mexico remains the world’s top producer of silver, besting 2nd-place Peru by nearly 50%, 3rd-place China […]

We like to think of America as a free country. Many of us expect to be able to do whatever we want as long as we’re not bothering anybody. But more and more often busybody governments are looking to interfere in mundane areas of everyday life. While code enforcement is often held up by local […]

The .30-06 Springfield cartridge wasn’t created out of thin air, just like the rifle for which it was created. The 1903 Springfield rifle was essentially a modified small-ring Mauser, developed in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War after US forces had found themselves incredibly outgunned by Spanish Mauser-armed forces. The .30-06 Springfield cartridge was essentially […]

A few weeks ago an immigrant detention center in Washington state was attacked by an armed man armed with a rifle and Molotov cocktails. The attack occurred at around 4AM, with the attacker igniting his own car and attempting to blow up a propane tank. He was then shot and killed by police when he […]