Category: America Now

For decades, American investors have been urged to invest in stock markets. Investing in stocks has been touted as the key to growing wealth and being able to live comfortably in retirement. But for more and more investors, stock markets have been an impediment to wealth creation instead of a boon. Many financial advisers like […]

Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein was arrested recently and charged with sex trafficking of minors. Epstein is a registered sex offender who once served 13 months in jail on similar charges after a plea deal. Yet despite his sordid past, which was apparently an open secret among financial and political elites in New York, Florida, and […]

If you’ve looked at house prices recently and thought that they’re completely unaffordable, you’re not alone. About three-quarters of the current US housing market is completely unaffordable for the average American. That’s not just bad news for those looking to buy houses, as they’ll be forced to spend more to to buy a house. It’s […]

Probably no event had a greater impact on the development of handguns in the 20th century than the 1986 Miami FBI shootout. That shootout highlighted the inadequacy in police use both of revolvers as well as 9mm pistols. That resulted in the FBI selecting the 10mm Auto cartridge for duty use. But due to heavy […]

It’s no secret that millions of Americans are chronically sleep-deprived. Many wear it as a badge of honor that they can function (so they think) with minimal amounts of sleep. But consistently shorting themselves of sleep can lead not just to short-term dysfunction due to mental tiredness, but long-term health problems as well if sleep […]

If it feels like the United States is more split politically and culturally than ever before, that’s because it is. Not even July 4th can conceal the fact that we are a nation split in two, with fewer people than ever sharing the common values that once made this country great. With that continuing bifurcation, […]

Last month a massive electrical grid failure in South America resulted in a blackout in Argentina and many other countries. All of Argentina and Uruguay lost power as a result of the failure, as well as many portions of Paraguay. In total an estimated 48 million people were left without power. Power was lost early […]

As part of its attempts to appear socially responsible, Facebook has announced that it will combat misinformation on its platform by banning a whole host of political ads. Those include ads spreading false information about polling times and locations, misinformation about vote counting, as well as ads encouraging people not to vote. In so doing, […]

It often seems as though hardly a day goes by that President Trump isn’t threatening to enact new tariffs against a trading partner. First it was China, which Trump continually threatens to enact new tariffs against. Then it was Mexico, whose exports Trump threatened to place tariffs on if the Mexican government didn’t work harder […]

Zimbabwe has become synonymous in recent years with inflation. Its hyperinflationary crisis in 2009 was so bad that the Zimbabwean dollar was eventually abandoned when it reached an exchange rate of 35 quadrillion to one against the US dollar. Since that time Zimbabweans began to use foreign currencies in everyday transactions: South African rand, Zambian […]