In the aftermath of US arms sales to Taiwan, China has reacted by declaring that it will sanction US firms involved with the transfer of arms to Taiwan. It is flipping the script by doing to US firms what the US does to other countries’ companies. But will the Chinese effort achieve any success or […]
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Look around you and you can readily see how overweight many Westerners have become. Obesity and all its effects are quickly becoming a scourge to society. Along with the obvious physical downside to obesity, it brings with it additional health consequences in the form of an increased risk of developing diabetes and heart disease. Diabetes […]
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You never know when you may find yourself lost in the middle of nowhere, stranded on the side of the road or out in the wilderness. Or maybe your area gets hit by a hurricane, tornado, or other strong storm and your power goes out for days or weeks. When the creature comforts of civilization […]
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The era of feudalism began to flourish in the years after the downfall of the Western Roman Empire, and reached their zenith during the medieval era. Far from being a natural outgrowth of societal development, feudalism was a reaction to overbearing policies enacted by corrupt centralized governments. And while feudalism disappeared from the Western world […]
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For centuries silver, not gold, was the precious metal of ordinary commerce. Numerous currencies, from the mark to the pound to the dollar, were defined as weights of silver. From Europe to China to the New World, silver coins were the currency of choice. Silver defined what it was to be cold, hard cash. That […]
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With high-quality cameras and large hard drives decreasing in price all the time, the cost to set up a top-quality home security camera system is getting cheaper by the day. But while setting up security cameras may be a good way to protect yourself against thieves, many security cameras may be used against their unwitting […]
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If you pay attention to financial media you’ve probably heard of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad.” The author, Robert Kiyosaki, has made a killing selling books and giving talks espousing his theory of investing. But while much of his focus has been on getting people to shed their concepts of how to get rich and embrace […]
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Facebook may have expected to make a big splash with its Libra cryptocurrency project, and it certainly has. But the attention that Libra has garnered has been largely negative, particularly from government officials in the US and around the world. There’s a very real chance that the move to clamp down on Libra and Facebook […]
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Over the past 10+ years of unprecedented central bank liquidity creation, traditional thinking about monetary policy, financial markets, and government intervention in those markets has been turned on its head. Thanks to trillions of dollars of liquidity injected into economies around the world, asset prices remain extraordinarily elevated and interest rates remain unprecedentedly low. That […]
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Despite the reams of retirement planning advice out there, there will always be some people, many through no fault of their own, who are unable to save enough money to retire comfortably. That was the impetus behind the creation of the Social Security System, to provide a backstop so that those whose retirement savings were […]
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