It’s early in the morning, you’ve just woken up, and you’re feeling groggy. The first thing you think of is where you’re going to get that cup of coffee. Or it’s early afternoon, you’ve just eaten lunch, and you’re starting to feel tired. So you hop on down to the coffee shop for your afternoon […]
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President Trump on Friday followed through on his promise to raise tariffs on imports from China, raising the tariff from 10% to 25%. The new raised tariffs will affect more than $200 billion in goods imported from China and will dramatically raise tensions in the ongoing trade talks with China. While Chinese officials were in […]
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How you decide to prepare for a natural disaster or post-apocalyptic scenario depends in large part on where you live. With 80 percent of the country’s population living in urban areas that only take up 3 percent of the country’s land mass, prepping in an urban or suburban environment will be far different than prepping […]
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With President Trump’s decision on Friday to raise tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports from 10% to 25%, the stakes in the trade war with China just got higher. Trump’s move came while a Chinese delegation was in Washington negotiating a trade agreement, thus scuttling any chances of a successful resolution. China now feels […]
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In case it wasn’t already certain that social media giants are engaged in censorship of unpopular ideas, Facebook’s latest actions made it abundantly clear that social media and free speech will be increasingly in conflict. Facebook recently enacted permanent bans against Alex Jones, Louis Farrakhan, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, and others. And not only […]
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In a worrying sign for the health of the economy, Class 8 truck orders have plummeted so far in 2019. While some drop was expected given the record demand in 2018, the size of the fall has taken many observers aback. Year-on-year drops were 43% in December, 68% in January, 58% in February, 66% in […]
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After languishing under $4,000 for much of the year, Bitcoin has really taken off in price over the past few weeks, and just recently broke through the $6,000 barrier. But while there are numerous contributing factors for that strong price growth, there’s one factor that has gotten significantly less publicity. However it’s an important factor […]
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Along with the Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives has come renewed attention towards a monetary theory beloved by many Democrats and their allies, including Bernie Sanders. That theory, Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) posits that a government cannot ever default on its debt because it can just print money to pay off that debt. […]
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If you thought the worst excesses of the 2008 financial crisis were well behind us then think again. While the first few years following the crisis brought a return of some sort of sanity on the part of financial markets, lenders, and investors, the lessons of the crisis are increasingly being forgotten. That’s especially the […]
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While the $20 double eagle gold coins have long gained attention from collectors and investors, the less-appreciated $10 eagle coin was for decades the standard gold coin intended for circulation. The $10 denomination was one of the original gold coinage units described in the Coinage Act of 1792, along with the half eagle ($5) and […]
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