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George Washington handed Alexander Hamilton an impossible task in September 1789. America owed about $75 million in debt from the Revolutionary War. Individual states had already defaulted. Foreign creditors considered the new country a total joke. And domestic bondholders at home were selling their worthless government IOUs for pennies on
After the second active shooter scare at his 8-year-old’s school, Michael Le Blanc decided he’d had enough of Los Angeles. The 56-year-old and his wife packed up their two kids and moved to Lisbon. His story was one of dozens featured in a recent Wall Street Journal article about Americans
In August 2022, at a campaign rally in Kingston, New York, Governor Kathy Hochul had a message for anyone who didn’t share her political views. “Just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong,” she said. “Get out of town. Because you do not represent our
Yesterday the United States Senate Budget Committee held a hearing on Social Security solvency. And one of the most interesting things about it is that it didn’t make the news. At all. It’s crazy. Every single senator on that committee acknowledged that Social Security will run out of money in
A few days ago, the United States Treasury Department quietly published the “Financial Report of the United States Government for fiscal year 2025”. No press conference. No prime-time coverage. Just a PDF uploaded to a government website. It is, arguably, the most important financial document published in the country each
You don’t have to look very hard these days to see widespread criticism of the conflict in Iran. Obviously, there are the usual suspects like the New York Times and Washington Post who have called it “folly” and “rotten”. But plenty of voices on the right have joined in the
Sometimes it feels like governments are actively trying to make everything worse. “Affordable” healthcare that no one can afford. AI regulations designed to ensure 450 million Europeans are the last people on earth to benefit from the most revolutionary technology in decades. And the teachers unions that fund these politicians
On March 10, a nonpartisan Washington think tank called the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget published a report called: “Break Glass: A Plan for the Next Economic Shock.” It points out that the United States has never entered an economic downturn as indebted as it is today— meaning there
In the year 1429 during the reign of King Sejong the Great in modern day Korea, the royal government took the advice of its Chinese-trained scholars and set up gender-separated medical saunas, known as hanjeungmak. The saunas were fed by nearby hot springs and often maintained by Buddhist monks; in
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan and triggered a massive tsunami that slammed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Three of the plant’s six reactors melted down, and it became the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. On the other side of
Charles Howard, the 11th Duke of Norfolk was known as the “Jockey Duke” for his hard gambling, hard-drinking, hard eating, and hard womanizing. But above all else, he was politically ambitious. And the Duke had his eye particularly fixed on the borough of Horsham in southern England because of its
It was the early 2000s, and poor Monty was down on his luck. An aging, out-of-work game hunter and security guard, Monty had been unemployed for quite some time. Fortunately, he was getting by, but living off the generosity of a family in southern California who had taken him in.
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