Turkey has always been an odd man out in NATO. The only Muslim country in NATO at the alliance’s founding, Turkey’s control of the Bosporus Strait made it a vital strategic partner during the Cold War. NATO control of the Bosporus was considered vital to keeping the Soviet Black Sea fleet out of the Mediterranean […]
Continue Reading
The millennial generation, those born between about 1981 and 2000, has finally come of age. Older millennials are beginning to reach their peak earning years, starting families and buying homes. Younger millennials are only a few years from exiting college and entering the workforce. And the millennial generation has finally become the largest generational cohort […]
Continue Reading
After months of planning and speculation, Facebook has finally announced its Libra cryptocurrency project. With a host of major corporations joining in the project, many mainstream analysts are hailing the new project as groundbreaking. But many in the cryptocurrency community are casting doubt on Facebook’s efforts. So will Libra end up being a world-changing currency […]
Continue Reading
As much as authorities in Brussels would like to pretend that the EU is as united as ever, major fissures have erupted over the past several years as EU authorities continue their quest to unify the continent. While previous discontent was largely confined to smaller and more peripheral members, the latest feuds are starting to […]
Continue Reading
If President Trump’s tariffs on all Chinese imports go into full effect, the average American family is expected to pay over $2,000 per year due to higher prices on the goods they buy. But they’ll only pay that if the imports from China are actually assessed tariffs. Goods coming in from most other countries aren’t […]
Continue Reading
With the popularity of gold bullion coins growing after the US legalized gold ownership in 1975, numerous countries rushed to supply the investor demand that had been pent up. Among them was Mexico, which began minting its gold Libertad bullion coins in 1981. Mexico has long been a source for precious metals from its mines, […]
Continue Reading
Democrats across the country continue to push for gun control, using every shooting as another excuse to push their agenda to disarm American citizens. They continually recite the usual litany of demands: universal background checks, magazine capacity limits, assault weapons bans, etc., regardless of the plain and obvious fact that none of these proposals would […]
Continue Reading
Anyone who has been paying attention to Social Security’s fiscal problems knows that the system is woefully underfunded. Years of surpluses and interest income have lulled everyone into a false sense of security. But now total Social Security tax receipts plus interest income on the trust fund are not enough to pay the total amount […]
Continue Reading
Although the US military continues to place its trust in the performance of the 5.56x45mm cartridge, many shooters have derided the cartridge over the years as a “poodle shooter,” meaning it’s about powerful enough to kill a poodle, not a person. There’s some truth to that, as US forces have often complained about the inability […]
Continue Reading
After the great cryptocurrency crash of early 2018, many pundits claimed that that was the end for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Falling from a high of near $20,000 in late 2017 to about $6,000 by mid-2018, Bitcoin’s popularity took a nosedive as well. For the next several months Bitcoin was in a rut, failing to […]
Continue Reading
