There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth last month as Californians in the San Francisco Bay area had to withstand days of electrical blackouts. Northern California utility Pacific Gas & Electricity (PG&E) shut off distribution to hundreds of thousands of households in an attempt to forestall the possibility of wildfires. PG&E power cables had […]
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It seems as though there is no limit as to what Democrats will spend taxpayer money on. As if it weren’t bad enough already that the federal government is $23 trillion in debt, Democrats want to keep spending as if that debt didn’t exist. And the things they want to spend that money on sometimes […]
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Bitcoin has often seemed to be immune to government efforts to keep it from succeeding. It was once derided as a currency only used by online cybercriminals, or by drug users and dealers looking to conceal their activities from authorities. Government officials even tried to link Bitcoin to international terrorism in an attempt to shut […]
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More and more is being written today about how millennials are different from the generations before them. But while much of the focus is on millennials’ different spending patterns, work ethic, or consumer choices, an increasing amount of focus is on millennials’ financial well-being. For the first time since the Great Depression or, according to […]
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It seems that according to Democrats, everyone who opposes Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, or anyone else in the Democratic establishment is a Russian agent. So if you voted for President Trump you’re obviously one of Vladimir Putin’s sleeper cell agents, or you’re on Putin’s payroll, or maybe you just got fooled by Russian propaganda, i.e. […]
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With the dotcom bubble having burst in spectacular fashion in 2000, the housing bubble having resulted in the financial crisis in 2008, and now the everything bubble on the verge of bursting, it’s no wonder that many investors have been shy over the years about investing in stock markets. While they can make major gains […]
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The .32 ACP pistol cartridge has a long and storied history. It was the first handgun cartridge designed by John Moses Browning, the later designer of the 1911 pistol, and quickly became one of the most popular handgun cartridges in the world. Long a standard cartridge for police forces throughout Europe, handguns chambered in .32 […]
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The massive corporate debt bubble that exists in the United States today is perhaps one of the most under-reported pieces of financial news there is. Even when you do hear about it, it’s as though trillions of dollars of corporate debt is something ho-hum, so ordinary that it doesn’t deserve a second look. But the […]
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It’s no secret that central bankers don’t like competition. Governments of any type don’t, that’s why their governments. They enjoy their monopoly and seek to squelch anything that might threaten it. That’s why cryptocurrencies have come in for such strong opposition from central bankers, as they directly threaten the monopoly of monetary control that central […]
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One of the most disappointing aspects of President Trump’s tenure has been the poor personnel choices he has made. Whether that’s in the form of hiring staff who completely contradict his stated views, such as former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, or staff who actively look to stymie him, such as former chief of staff John […]
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