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Henry VIII probably thought he was being extremely clever when he started debasing his currency in 1544… and assumed that, if he reduced the silver content slowly and gradually enough, perhaps no one would notice. But the King was hilariously wrong. Despite centuries of warfare, invasions, and plagues, English rulers
The year was 1998. Titanic was still pulling people into theaters. Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were chasing Roger Maris’s home run record. And the Dow Jones Industrial Average had punched through 9,000 for the first time. The Cold War was over. The Internet and cell phones were starting to take
Mark Zuckerberg had his hands full last week trying to calm the storm at his company. In an employee conference call, he had to quell a great deal of panic over the company’s performance. Growth at Facebook/Meta is slowing, the stock price is down, and the company is dealing with
In April 1953, CIA Director Allen Dulles tasked a chemist named Sidney Gottlieb with finding out whether the United States could do what the Soviets were rumored to have figured out: control human minds with drugs. His methods were absolutely insane; Gottlieb set up a brothel in San Francisco where
The US presidential election of 1912 almost sounds like the setup to a joke. Two Republicans, a Democrat, and a Socialist walk into a bar… But it’s true: William Howard Taft and Teddy Roosevelt split the Republican vote (with Roosevelt starting his own “Bull Moose” ticket). Woodrow Wilson was on
On April 22, the Telegraph published the results of an investigation showing that London landlords are advertising rental properties based on religious preferences. The listings appear on Facebook pages openly named “Renting room in London for Muslims” and “Muslim rents,” with language like “only for Muslims,” “for 2 Muslim boys
In the spring of 1946, hundreds of thousands of American soldiers were coming home from Europe and the Pacific, maimed, bruised, and shell-shocked. The economy they returned to was upside down. Detroit was making tanks, not automobiles. Factories were making bullets, not baby carriages. Food was rationed. Fuel was scarce.
In 1909, a British journalist named Norman Angell published The Great Illusion, claiming that war between major global powers had become obsolete. Nations were too interlinked, he argued. Capital was too entangled. Trade was too valuable. And no nation would put that prosperity at risk. War and conquest were things
Fake net worth. Fake bestseller. Fake racial crisis. Three stories caught our attention this week which show just how much of politics is pure manipulation. Representative Ilhan Omar quietly amended her 2025 financial disclosure last week, revising her household assets from a range of $6 to $30 million, down to
In late February 2022, days after Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States responded by freezing billions of dollars of assets owned by the Russian government. Whether or not that action was justified is beyond the point. US government bonds had long been considered the safest asset on earth. But every
10x in just nine months. That’s how much money our readers made on a precious metals mining company that we first featured in our investment newsletter Strategic Assets back in April 2025. At the time, the company’s stock was trading at a low, single-digit price/earnings multiple. We knew the precious
In early December 2001, ‘normal’ life very suddenly ceased to exist in Argentina— anything that remotely resembled a functional society came to an abrupt end. And that is by no means an exaggeration. The banking system collapsed. Financial transactions ground to a halt. Desperate people looted supermarkets for food, and then
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