By now most people realize that the world economy is in decline. Europe is falling into recession, the US is headed there, and country after country is seeing economic slowdown and stagnation. Manufacturing activity worldwide is slowing down, with the automotive industry at the forefront. In fact, the slowdown in automobile production is judged to […]
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California is the state where good ideas and entrepreneurship go to die. One of the characteristics of the modern economy has been the development of the gig economy, which allows people who want to make a little extra money on the side to do that with relative ease. The company that best typifies that is […]
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The cost of higher education has gotten ever more expensive in recent years, and students have had to go ever deeper into debt in order to afford a college degree that, in many cases, doesn’t do all that much for them. With over $1.5 trillion in student debt outstanding today, there are calls across the […]
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Last week’s public impeachment hearings highlighted just how much hyperbole surrounds the entire spectacle of impeachment. The establishment waited with bated breath for the testimony of former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. While she was testifying, President Trump tweeted about her, claiming that her performance as Ambassador was awful, saying that “everywhere Marie Yovanovitch […]
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Most people realize that the amount of debt in existence worldwide is enormous, but how enormous isn’t immediately obvious. Many people may even labor under the erroneous impression that the debt bubble has improved since the financial crisis, since surely businesses and individuals learned their lesson from that crisis. But the reality is that the […]
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For more and more people, the drawbacks of social media increasingly outweigh the positives. Yes, social media can be a fun place to connect with family and friends, share family photos, and keep in touch with people you don’t see on a regular basis. But with people sharing intimate details of their lives, political opinions, […]
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For years, market analysts have wondered when the fourth round of quantitative easing (QE) would occur. We all remember QE1, QE2, and QE3, which mainstream economic analysts praise as having saved the financial system from ruin in 2008 and afterwards. But the trillions of dollars created during those bouts of easing have created an enormous […]
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While the .22 Long Rifle (LR) cartridge is without a doubt the most popular rimfire cartridge in history, its ballistic performance leaves much to be desired. It can be an effective cartridge in dispatching small game, varmints, and birds, and is a good cartridge to introduce new shooters to the shooting sports. But every now […]
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Central bankers aren’t the most aware people on the face of the planet. They continue to drive country after country into recession, then feign ignorance, as if inflation weren’t the product of their monetary policies. So when a central banker comments on matters of money and currency, you have to take everything with a grain […]
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The protests in Hong Kong are continuing, with Hong Kong’s universities becoming key areas controlled by protesters. Many universities have been cordoned off and barricaded, with students manning checkpoints and scanning visitors to make sure that no undercover police officers make it onto university campuses. In the rest of the city protesters continue their campaign […]
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