With the entire world in an uproar due to the spread of the Chinese coronavirus, some shocking new developments have occurred in the United States that may have some relation to the crisis. The chairman of Harvard’s chemistry department, Dr. Charles Lieber, was indicted by the US government for allegedly concealing his ties to a […]
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You may have built up a pretty nice arsenal of firearms. But maybe life has gotten busy, and you can’t make it to the range as much as you’d like. You’re worried that your shooting skills are deteriorating and you don’t know how to find the time to improve them. Or perhaps you go to […]
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Every year we’re warned to get our flu shots. We’re told that the flu kills tens of thousands of people each flu season, and we’re constantly being reminded of the potential dangers of the disease. And at the back of many people’s heads is the history of the Spanish flu, which killed between 20 and […]
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Right now there’s still not much that’s known about the Chinese coronavirus that has begun to sweep the world. Even details on the number of cases is up for speculation, as the Chinese government claims only a few thousand people suffer from the disease, while information circulating on social media claims that tens of thousands […]
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Many financial advisers probably look longingly at the great gains made by cryptocurrency investors and wish they had gotten in on the game. Last year Bitcoin made about a 90% gain over the course of the year, tripling the gains that major stock market indices made in what was a great year for stocks. But […]
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Last Friday, President Trump became the first US President to address the March for Life in person. Nealry 50 years after the first march, which began as a reaction to the Supreme Court’s disastrous decision in Roe v. Wade, that milestone is a telling one about Trump. But it’s also telling about previous Presidents. That […]
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The news recently has been full of worry about the Chinese coronavirus, which has now reached across the oceans due to travel to and from China. With the city of Wuhan under quarantine, and deaths from the virus rising every day, there’s quite a bit of worry throughout the world. Even stock markets, which have […]
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While much of the financial advice you hear in the media needs to be taken with a grain of salt, every now and then you hear a nugget of truth. In this case it’s coming from legendary hedge fund investor Ray Dalio, who was recently interviewed at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland about […]
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It seems like just about all the news coming from California these days is negative. From wildfires to homelessness, poop on the streets to communist-sympathizing district attorneys, there’s so much going wrong with California that it’s hard to believe anyone still wants to live there. Well, hard to believe that productive citizens want to live […]
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Millions of American retirees receive Social Security payments each month. And while Social Security wasn’t intended to be the sole source of retirement income for retired Americans, many people rely on Social Security for some or even all of their income in retirement. That may be due to poor performance of their investments, losing their […]
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