While millions of investors understand the importance of gold as the ultimate money, they also understand that governments everywhere make it difficult to use gold as money. Until restrictions are lifted gold will have difficulty in reclaiming its monetary role. But the future of gold as money will be digital, with consumers being able to […]
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It should probably come as no surprise that New Zealand’s government is engaging in hypocrisy of the highest order. Most governments do the same thing. But the hypocrisy of bleeding heart leftists who claim to have compassion for innocents turning around and subjecting other innocents to injustice is particularly galling and deserves a sound rebuke. […]
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More and more people today understand the necessity of creating a go bag, or a bug out bag. When you need to get away in an instant, having everything you need to sustain yourself for several days conveniently stored in a single bag can literally be a life-saver. While people like to tailor the individual […]
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The Federal Open Market Committee voted last week to keep its target federal funds rate steady at 2.25 to 2.50%. Even more importantly, the FOMC voted to stop the Fed’s winding down of its balance sheet at the end of September of this year. And as of May of this year the Fed will halve […]
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With online retailers such as Amazon continuing to grow exponentially, to many people the age of e-commerce is finally here. It’s been over two decades since most people were introduced to eBay, Amazon, and online shopping, but the real growth has occurred in just the past few years. In just the past five years e-commerce […]
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The Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) meeting last week was nothing less than earth-shattering in terms of its ramifications for financial markets. While many analysts had thought that one rate hike this year might be within the realm of possibility, the Fed all but shut the door on that happening. More importantly, the Fed indicated […]
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Bitcoin has revolutionized the world of payments, allowing individuals to transact with each other without the use of banks or other centralized payment processors. Those transactions can even take place across international borders, with greatly reduced cost versus what would normally occur through the banking system. But the one knock on Bitcoin is that, as […]
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With the demise of the half dollar as a circulating coin, the quarter dollar coin became the workhorse coin of American commerce. That made the George Washington quarter the most widely used and most recognizable coin produced by the US Mint. But very few people realize that the quarter used to be minted from silver, […]
Continue ReadingHave you ever had a nagging feeling that you need to do something, but you keep putting it off? And then by the time you get around to doing it, you’re too late and missed the opportunity? That’s how many investors felt during the 2008 financial crisis. Even if they understood that the housing bubble […]
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The crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8 earlier this month has raised significant questions about the reliability of the aircraft. The aircraft in question, the second MAX 8 to crash within 5 months, was delivered to Ethiopian on November 15, 2018, meaning that it had seen less than four months of service. A […]
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