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It was probably after 2am last night when I walked up the stairs to bed after a marathon seven hour dinner. But that’s pretty normal here. This is the eighth year in a row I have spent my summer holiday at this 400 year old villa in the Italian countryside.
I feel like a complete broken man right now. I’m exhausted. Sleep deprived. Malnourished. My muscles are sore. My back is killing me. I’m so hoarse I can barely speak. Yet despite all that I couldn’t possibly be feeling more excited and exhilarated. My 10th annual liberty and entrepreneurship workshop
Welcome to our Friday roll up, where we highlight the most absurd and concerning stories we are following this week. 10 year old charged for assault… with a dodgeball A ten year old boy will be brought to juvenile court on assault charges. His heinous crime was hitting another 10
Ten years ago, at the peak of the global financial crisis, the Board of Trustees which oversees Social Security in the United States issued a stark warning: They projected that Social Security’s enormous trust funds would completely run out of money in 2039. Naturally nobody paid attention. Back in 2009
Our annual Sovereign Academy is just around the corner. Each year, I invite the most talented entrepreneurs I know to teach and mentor a group of 50 young people from around the world. The camp is entirely free for students – I pay for everything myself out of pocket. It’s
The federal government sold your Social Security Number for FIVE dollars Welcome to our Friday roll up, where we highlight the most absurd and concerning stories we are following this week. Equifax fined $700 million… for 147 million person data breach Do you remember back in 2017 when Equifax (the
In 1993, William Kurt Hauser, a San Francisco investment analyst, presented his results from an incredibly interesting study. Hauser had analyzed tax revenues in the United States over time and came to the conclusion that tax revenue as a percentage of GDP had remained around a narrow band of 19%
“Gentlemen… the National Debt… is paid.” That sentence has been uttered in Washington DC exactly one time ever, by a Senator announcing that the US government was officially debt free. That was on January 8, 1835 when the debt that the United States government had accrued since its birth was
Here’s our Friday roll up of the most bizarre stories we’re following this week. Mom can’t sue cop who accidentally shot her child On July 10, 2014, a Sheriff’s Deputy from a rural county in southern Georgia was in pursuit of a suspect when he wandered onto the property of
The first time I met Steven Seagal, it was in the lobby of a posh hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. He came downstairs sharply dressed, complete with his yellow-tinged ‘Tony Stark’ sunglasses, ready to hit the nightclubs for the evening. My friend Adam introduced us. Steven bowed to me, and, slightly
75 years ago this month, a group of 744 delegates from around the world gathered at the very posh Mount Washington Hotel in New Hampshire to build a brand new global financial system. The year was 1944. World War II was still raging in Europe and the Pacific. But with
There seems to be an unwritten rule with lawmakers that, every time they create a terrible piece of legislation, they give it the most noble-sounding name. The USA PATRIOT Act from 2001 was a great example. It sounds great. Who wouldn’t love a law named for Patriots? And yet that
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