From the very first reports of the alleged hate crime attack against Empire actor Jussie Smollett, most people thought that something about the attack didn’t smell right. Sure enough, as more details came out it appeared that Smollett himself orchestrated the attack in order to gain attention and sympathy in order to help his career. […]
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If you’re a serious prepper there’s a good chance that you’ve spent thousands or tens of thousands of dollars on food, water, firearms, and other preparedness and survival gear. All it takes is one thief or band of robbers to wreak havoc on your supplies, steal the gear you’ve worked so hard to accumulate, and […]
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White House economics adviser Larry Kudlow caused some raised eyebrows last Friday with his call for the Fed to immediately cut its target federal funds rate by 50 basis points. According to Kudlow, the Fed never should have raised interest rates above 2%. Despite protestations that the economy is fundamentally healthy, the call for an […]
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Every month seems to bring conflicting data from the housing market, with occasional bits of rosy data eventually overwhelmed by negative data. It’s no secret that houses across the country are incredibly expensive. It’s not even just the large metro areas such as San Francisco, New York, and Washington, DC that are affected either. Even […]
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One of the advantages of Bitcoin that appealed to many first adopters of the technology was the fact that it had no central authority. The only central entity was the protocol itself, which was used by miners, consumers, and investors across the globe. That meant that no single entity could create new bitcoins out of […]
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What many people remember about the financial crisis of 2008 was the role that housing played in the collapse of that bubble. Banks and mortgage lenders had fallen all over themselves lending money to unqualified borrowers, allowing them to buy houses they couldn’t afford. When housing prices started to fall and people began to fall […]
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Language is incredibly powerful, which is why those who seek to enact dramatic social change often seek to gain control over words and pervert their meaning in order to accomplish their goals. This Gramscian revolution within the form plays on the fact that most people give relatively little thought to words and their meaning. They […]
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For over 40 years Americans were forbidden from owning gold coins. FDR’s Depression-era restrictions were finally lifted in 1975, ushering in a new era of opportunity for investors. For the next decade there was one coin that became synonymous with gold – the Krugerrand. With South Africa positioning itself as the world’s top producer of […]
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The past week has brought something that investors everywhere had been fearing: an inversion of the yield curve. While the spread between 10-year Treasury bonds and 3-month Treasury bonds had been growing smaller and smaller every month, the yield on the 10-year remained higher. But last week the Fed’s decision to end its balance sheet […]
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India just became the only the fourth country ever to successfully test an anti-satellite missile (ASAT), claiming to have shot down one of its own satellites with an ASAT. According to the government, the target satellite was in low-earth orbit at a distance of 300 kilometers. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the test as […]
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