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January 25, 2019
January 25, 2019. The government holds the economy hostage. ...
November 30, 2018
November 30, 2018. "Stalin could not have existed in a municipality." ...
November 15, 2018
November 15, 2018. Replace high school with internships, and society's transformation will be beyond our wildest dreams. ...
November 13, 2018
November 13, 2018. It’s a vicious cycle of debt. And it will eventually mean disaster for the US dollar. ...
October 12, 2018
October 12, 2018. Sears was the Amazon of the 1900s. ...
October 11, 2018
October 11, 2018. There are a lot of problems in the world. You can't care about all of them. And if you try, you will probably feel overwhelmed, depressed, and powerless. ...
September 12, 2018
September 12, 2018. Right now in South Africa, there’s a large movement to confiscate land from white farmers and redistribute it to black people. It’s the hottest topic leading into next year’s elections. ...
July 12, 2018
July 12, 2018. Imagine if your favorite hobby, or most intense intellectual interest, could be your full-time job. And imagine if full time meant spending just a few hours per day on your work. ...
July 05, 2018
July 5, 2018. The world is changing. The old "safe bet" is now a miserable dead end. Why wait to be happy? ...
June 16, 2018
June 16, 2018. How many of these skills did you learn in high school or even college? ...
June 08, 2018
June 8, 2018. Mushrooms are eating plastic, filtering water, replacing leather, feeding the hungry, curing the sick... and we have barely even started studying them. ...
May 26, 2018
Your life insurance company. Your pension fund. Your bank. The fixed-income mutual fund where you invested your retirement savings. ...
May 16, 2018
As if things weren’t bad enough for beleaguered Tesla… ...
May 07, 2018
Specific to Bitcoin, for example, a truly honest assessment of the core software may lead to the conclusion that it’s technologically inferior to newer tokens and coins. ...
April 19, 2018
An analysis by investment firm Artemis Capital Management, in fact, argues that more than 40% of corporate earnings growth between 2009 and 2017 is due to share buybacks… not actual profit. ...
April 13, 2018
Financial freedom means you are in control. This is how to cut the stress, and take unexpected expenses in stride. ...
April 09, 2018
"...the Fed will have to raise rates faster and/ or sell more securities, which certainly could lead to more uncertainty and market volatility. Whether this would lead to a recession or not, we don’t know." ...
March 21, 2018
In prison, of course, they’re fed, clothed, housed, and even have their health care covered by the state. ...
March 09, 2018
And on the eve of the Great Depression, multiple projects were all simultaneously competing to become the world’s tallest building, including the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and the Manhattan Bank Trust Building (now known as the Trump Build ...
March 06, 2018
No one should have to compete with robots. That is why everyone should strive to do what robots cannot. ...
March 05, 2018
Ignore the media, don't give in to the unions, and disappoint your mother if you must. ...
January 29, 2018
Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock index finally peaked at nearly 39,000 points on December 29, 1989. ...
January 27, 2018
The tariff applies a 30% charge on imported solar panels, and 50% on large residential washing machines. ...
December 07, 2017
Goodfriend says banks should be able to charge people money to store their money. But then why would anyone keep their money in a bank? They wouldn't unless the cash negative interest rate was even higher. ...
December 06, 2017
Don't you hate when so much extra wealth is added to society, that the economy tanks? Wait, what? ...
November 29, 2017
The government plan creates no new wealth. They simply redistribute existing wealth through a basic income. This is an opportunity for humanity to use 30% of their productive time in exciting new endeavors. If we let the government have their way, they will des ...
November 28, 2017
You can't ignore the facts. That traditional model of employment so many Americans sought in the past, is giving way to something new. ...
September 26, 2017
Does it make sense to stand in front of the train? Or is it better to, as Isaac Newton did, leap aboard for some final thrills? We prefer neither. ...
September 19, 2017
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” Rahm Emanuel, an American politician, was talking about politics when he said this. But he may as well have said i ...
September 10, 2017
A chicken in every pot, and a unicorn in every garage. That's the progressive dream.
No, seriously, they are dreaming, and they must have smoked something crazy before bed. ...
May 10, 2017
180 years ago today, everyone panicked. On May 10, 1837, New York banks finally realized that the easy money they were lending was unsustainable, and demanded payment in "specie," or hard money like gold and silver coin. They had previously been accepting paper ...
