The media says, “Jump.” And the public responds in unison, “How high?”“As high as you ever have jumped before, except maybe after 9/11, or the Kennedy assassination.”Of course, when there is news, it should be reported. Today it is reported sensationally, as entertainment. Is it meant to inform, or induce?Which came first, the media’s obsession with violen...Read More
Of the twenty-five countries I have explored, the most memorable trip I’ve made so far has been to the city of Amritsar. It is the religious center of the Sikhs and border town to Pakistan in India. It is a place of beauty and adventure. Here I had one of the most profound experiences of my life.Walking the streets of every city in the world, you will come across the homeless. You see pover...Read More
Of the twenty-five countries I have explored, the most memorable trip I’ve made so far has been to the city of Amritsar. It is the religious center of the Sikhs and border town to Pakistan in India. It is a place of beauty and adventure. Here I had one of the most profound experiences of my life.Walking the streets of every city in the world, you will come across the homeless. You see pover...Read More
Puerto Rican authorities are blaming the White House for not properly responding to the disaster caused by Hurricane Maria. Trump, in turn, tweeted that about the poor leadership within Puerto Rico and claimed the politicians were just trying to score political points.There have been unverified reports that officials in Puerto Rico were, in fact, holding back supplies unless there were accompanyi...Read More
Puerto Rican authorities are blaming the White House for not properly responding to the disaster caused by Hurricane Maria. Trump, in turn, tweeted that about the poor leadership within Puerto Rico and claimed the politicians were just trying to score political points.There have been unverified reports that officials in Puerto Rico were, in fact, holding back supplies unless there were accompanyi...Read More
If you don’t feel free, chances are you don’t feel happy either.Both of these words, free and happy, are pretty loose in their official definitions. Scientific studies have used various metrics to measure happiness; self-reporting, brain waves, psychological evaluations, and family member surveys. As for freedom, the studies mainly use the self-reported metric, how free a person feels....Read More
If you don’t feel free, chances are you don’t feel happy either.Both of these words, free and happy, are pretty loose in their official definitions. Scientific studies have used various metrics to measure happiness; self-reporting, brain waves, psychological evaluations, and family member surveys. As for freedom, the studies mainly use the self-reported metric, how free a person feels....Read More
Everything you do and think is racist, you probably just don’t realize it because you’re so super privileged.You can’t just sit back and hide in your white supremacist neighborhoods anymore. There’s no more abstaining from taking a side on this one. The sins of your ancestors have caught up to you! (Or at least the sins of the ancestors of people who look like you, consider...Read More
Everything you do and think is racist, you probably just don’t realize it because you’re so super privileged.You can’t just sit back and hide in your white supremacist neighborhoods anymore. There’s no more abstaining from taking a side on this one. The sins of your ancestors have caught up to you! (Or at least the sins of the ancestors of people who look like you, consider...Read More
No scientific fact is ever settled beyond dispute. Challenging the status quo is the best way to ensure scientific findings are as accurate and truthful as possible.It's great that in the scientific community, you are always free to disagree. In fact, it is encouraged! Just kidding!When it comes to climate change, you better tout the official story or keep your mouth shut.It started when the globa...Read More
No scientific fact is ever settled beyond dispute. Challenging the status quo is the best way to ensure scientific findings are as accurate and truthful as possible.It's great that in the scientific community, you are always free to disagree. In fact, it is encouraged! Just kidding!When it comes to climate change, you better tout the official story or keep your mouth shut.It started when the globa...Read More
NFL players are kneeling, standing, sitting maybe, and probably laying down at times. Perhaps they are protesting police killings, or maybe they hate America, and some of them are very patriotic and do or do not support Donald Trump. I don’t know. Who cares?How many headlines has this stupid manufactured controversy taken up? How many arguments and fights have ensued? Do people even know wha...Read More
NFL players are kneeling, standing, sitting maybe, and probably laying down at times. Perhaps they are protesting police killings, or maybe they hate America, and some of them are very patriotic and do or do not support Donald Trump. I don’t know. Who cares?How many headlines has this stupid manufactured controversy taken up? How many arguments and fights have ensued? Do people even know wha...Read More
Via Soveriegnman.com[Editor's note: This letter was co-written with Tim Price, co-founder of the VT Price Value portfolio and editor of Price Value International.]In the late spring of 1720, Sir Isaac Newton decided to sell his stocks.Newton had been an investor in the South Sea Company, a famous enterprise which effectively commanded a trading monopoly with South America.The investment had alread...Read More
Via Soveriegnman.com[Editor's note: This letter was co-written with Tim Price, co-founder of the VT Price Value portfolio and editor of Price Value International.]In the late spring of 1720, Sir Isaac Newton decided to sell his stocks.Newton had been an investor in the South Sea Company, a famous enterprise which effectively commanded a trading monopoly with South America.The investment had alread...Read More
$60 Billion plus is the U.S. dollar equivalent to how much Bitcoin is currently in circulation. That amount of money would keep the Estonian government running at current expenditures for almost 60 years.$60 billion is more than double Estonia’s Gross Domestic Product.So what if Estonia released a cryptocurrency that was that successful? It’s not a stretch to think the first governmen...Read More
$60 Billion plus is the U.S. dollar equivalent to how much Bitcoin is currently in circulation. That amount of money would keep the Estonian government running at current expenditures for almost 60 years.$60 billion is more than double Estonia’s Gross Domestic Product.So what if Estonia released a cryptocurrency that was that successful? It’s not a stretch to think the first governmen...Read More
At this silver mine it apparently pays to get the lead out. Investor's Digest of Canada columnist Mike Kachanovsky has found a silver mining stock with enough revenue from its byproduct zinc and lead production to entirely offset all mining costs, so that the company is expected to achieve 'negative' costs on a per-ounce basis for its silver production. Most investors look through the wrong end of...Read More
How can something be considered a crime if there is no victim?This is a problem. You can go through life making sure you don’t hurt anyone, and still break the law. Wouldn’t that be great if you could simply base your actions on common sense and respect for the standards of a community?Instead, people must also make sure they don't do anything labeled wrong by the government. Of course...Read More
How can something be considered a crime if there is no victim?This is a problem. You can go through life making sure you don’t hurt anyone, and still break the law. Wouldn’t that be great if you could simply base your actions on common sense and respect for the standards of a community?Instead, people must also make sure they don't do anything labeled wrong by the government. Of course...Read More