Many of us know that stock markets have always been a poor proxy for judging the health of an economy. But most people do it anyway. When stock markets do well, the economy is judged to be doing well. When stock markets do poorly, the economy is judged to be performing poorly. But what most […]
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Everyone has dreams of retiring some day. For many people, that’s the motivation that keeps them coming into work every day, the knowledge that every day they’re building up more and more money in their nest egg to enable themselves to finally quit the rat race in the future. But for many potential retirees, the […]
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While we’ve previously profiled the Mexican Gold Libertad coin, its Silver Libertad counterpart is perhaps better known. Mexico’s mining industry has existed for centuries and was long a source of gold and silver for the Spanish Empire. Even today Mexico remains the world’s top producer of silver, besting 2nd-place Peru by nearly 50%, 3rd-place China […]
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We like to think of America as a free country. Many of us expect to be able to do whatever we want as long as we’re not bothering anybody. But more and more often busybody governments are looking to interfere in mundane areas of everyday life. While code enforcement is often held up by local […]
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2018 was supposed to have been a great year for precious metals, but it ended up being a down year for investment assets across the board, from stocks and bonds to gold and silver. Silver was hit hard, with a 9% drop over the course of the year, slightly worse than the 5.6% drop in […]
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Ransomware is increasingly becoming a problem to cities and municipalities around the country. The ransomware attack that hit Baltimore earlier this year is perhaps the most famous one, as it brought the entire city government to its knees. The hackers took down the city’s computer systems and demanded a ransom of 13 bitcoins in order […]
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The .30-06 Springfield cartridge wasn’t created out of thin air, just like the rifle for which it was created. The 1903 Springfield rifle was essentially a modified small-ring Mauser, developed in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War after US forces had found themselves incredibly outgunned by Spanish Mauser-armed forces. The .30-06 Springfield cartridge was essentially […]
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A few weeks ago an immigrant detention center in Washington state was attacked by an armed man armed with a rifle and Molotov cocktails. The attack occurred at around 4AM, with the attacker igniting his own car and attempting to blow up a propane tank. He was then shot and killed by police when he […]
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To anyone taking a look at the US economy, the fact that the Federal Reserve is contemplating a rate cut, and the fact that markets are expecting a 50 basis point rate cut, is absolutely mind-boggling. Here we are with an economy that is supposedly booming, with employers struggling to find workers, with stock markets […]
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In the aftermath of US arms sales to Taiwan, China has reacted by declaring that it will sanction US firms involved with the transfer of arms to Taiwan. It is flipping the script by doing to US firms what the US does to other countries’ companies. But will the Chinese effort achieve any success or […]
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