Bitcoin Hits $1 Trillion Market Cap. What That Means for the Future of Money
Bitcoin hit another milestone this Friday as its total value surged to over $1 trillion for the first time ever. … Read more
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Why Cuomo’s Latest Tax Hike Proposal Would Accelerate New York’s Decline
New Yorkers had a rough, rough 2020. Governor Andrew Cuomo’s tax hike latest proposal would make 2021 even worse. Q4 … Read more
I Just Bought My First Cryptocurrency
I have been curious about cryptocurrencies for a while, and yesterday I bought some for the first time. Cryptocurrency is … Read more
Unemployment During the Pandemic Expected to Cause 900,000 US Deaths, New Economic Study Finds
The toll of the coronavirus has been severe. But a new study has found that the collective response to the … Read more
A Georgia Gold Rush Story: The Rise and Fall of America’s First Private Gold-Coin Mint
(Note: This article is dedicated to the memory of Carl Watner, who died on December 8, 2020 at the age … Read more
3 Glaring Problems with Joe Biden’s New Multi-Trillion COVID Package
On Thursday night, Joe Biden rolled out a sweeping proposal for $1.9 trillion more in COVID-19 relief package and stimulus … Read more
Elon Musk Took a Risk on a Clean Energy Future. It Paid Dividends
It’s no secret that entrepreneur and engineer Elon Musk is something of a cultural icon. With CEO of SpaceX and … Read more
‘It’s Easy Money’: Nigerian Scammer Laughs about Huge Sums Stolen from COVID Welfare Programs in Bombshell Interview
State unemployment agencies aren’t especially responsible stewards of taxpayer dollars even in the best of times. Yet when the COVID-19 … Read more
Why Not $200,000 Relief Checks?
It is always Christmas in Washington. This particular holiday season, politicians raced to the bottom of the fiscally incoherent barrel. … Read more
3 Glaring Flaws Plaguing The Bipartisan Push For $2,000 ‘Stimulus’ Checks
When politicians from completely opposite sides of the ideological spectrum agree on something, it’s usually a really good idea—or a … Read more
Everything You Need To Know About Blue State Fiscal Problems In One Chart
Should high-tax states such as California and New York get a bailout? Q1 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more … Read more
The True Story Behind The 2017 Bestseller ‘Beneath A Scarlet Sky’
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its … Read more
Starbucks Is The Latest Victim Of Pseudoscience
For coffee drinkers in California, health warnings on their morning fix will soon be commonplace. Earlier this month, a legal … Read more
Karl Marx And Marxism At Two Hundred
A specter continues to haunt the world, the specter of Karl Marx. Two hundred years ago, on May 5, 1818, … Read more
Adam Smith Likely Would Agree With Bernie Sanders That Our System Is “Rigged”, But
Adam Smith, the 18th-century intellectual founder of modern free-market economics, famously called the economic system he advocated “the obvious and … Read more
