If there’s a country that could challenge North Korea for world’s least predictable government, Turkey would have to be it. Recent actions taken by the Turkish government have people scratching their heads wondering what exactly President Erdogan is doing. His seeming determination to anger both the United States and the European Union risks completely upending […]
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If there’s a country that could challenge North Korea for world’s least predictable government, Turkey would have to be it. Recent actions taken by the Turkish government have people scratching their heads wondering what exactly President Erdogan is doing. His seeming determination to anger both the United States and the European Union risks completely upending […]
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More and more research is being done all the time to discover the importance of gut bacteria to overall health. Whereas once the gut was all but ignored, the huge amount of biodiversity within our guts is increasingly becoming a topic of study. And more and more evidence is pointing to the importance of a […]
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If the Federal Reserve ends up cutting its target federal funds rate this week, it would be an admission that the economy is in a pretty precarious state. Many analysts are trying to spin a rate cut as an attempt to keep the economic “expansion” of the past ten years going, but that’s merely wishful […]
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Hugelkultur comes from a German term for hill culture, and it refers to a method of growing plants in mounds or hills. Those mounds are created by placing together a wide variety of different organic materials to give the plants grown on them a significant amount of decaying material from which to draw nutrients. If […]
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The current stock market bull market has been fueled by the massive amounts of money pumped into world economies by central banks around the world. All that money had to go somewhere, and it has finally ended up in stock markets. To a large extent the continuing bull run is the result of stock buybacks […]
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified before Congress last week in appearances that were widely panned. The consensus was that Mueller left Democrats with egg on their faces. Many analysts noticed that Mueller didn’t seem to be familiar with much of the detail of his report, almost as though he were a CEO who signed off […]
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The hubbub surrounding Facebook’s new Libra cryptocurrency project hasn’t been terribly surprising. Any time a company that large undertakes a project of that magnitude, it’s bound to make waves. But surprisingly, it’s China that seems to be taking the most interest in Libra, not the US. China was the top country searching for information on […]
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One of the frustrating things to those who know that a stock market crash is coming has been the recent behavior of stock markets. All signs are pointing to an economic slowdown just around the corner, yet stock markets just recently set new all-time highs. What gives? If there’s one things that markets can be […]
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Attorney General William Barr has gone on record to ask that all tech companies provide backdoors into their encrypted products. According to Barr, consumers should be willing to accept the risk of being hacked by criminals so that government authorities can have the ability to access their electronic devices at any time. It’s a completely […]
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