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Late last week, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos gave away nearly $100 million to more than a dozen charities across the United States. It would take the average person more than 1,000 centuries to accumulate that much money. Yet Bezos gave it away in a single day. And it’s not like
Elon Musk is one of the most famous entrepreneurs in the world. But if he hadn’t been able to make his way to Silicon Valley as a young man, it’s possible that you would have never heard of him. Musk was born and raised in South Africa. And while South
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, your finances, and your prosperity. College newspaper will no longer report “triggering” news Northwestern is one of the finest universities in the world and
About a week and a half ago I had a terrible sinus infection… I’m talking -really- bad. My sneezes were so ferocious that I half-expected the US Geological Survey to register them on the Richter Scale. In the midst of all that misery, I became acutely interested in the health
Roughly 23,000 years ago in modern-day Israel, a small tribe of ex-cave dwellers built a tiny village near the Sea of Galilee that may have been one of the earliest agrarian societies in human history. Archaeologists discovered the site more than thirty years ago. And they found tens of thousands
If you were a southern Italian peasant around the turn of the 20th century, your life was pretty rough. The feudal system had officially ended with the unification of Italy a few decades earlier. But most laborers probably didn’t notice the difference. The vast majority of southern Italians were farm
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, your finances, and your prosperity. County government seizes home over $8.41 in unpaid tax When an 83-year old retiree paid his property taxes late,
In early 1940s as World War II raged in Europe and the Pacific, the most powerful person in the world was NOT Adolf Hitler. Nor Franklin Roosevelt. Nor Winston Churchill. Nor Josef Stalin. Not even close. The most powerful person in the world was a Nobel Prize winning physicist named
Bernd Lünser was by all accounts a popular, promising student. He was studying civil engineering at the State Engineering School of Architecture in West Berlin in 1961. Unfortunately, he lived in East Berlin. And during the summer break of that year, the Berlin Wall was completed, shutting off access from
Over the past two decades, one of my hobbies has been chronicling my family history. It started back in the early 2000s right around my first military deployment. I wasn’t sure if I was going to make it home, so I had a strong desire to know more about my
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, your finances, and your prosperity. Apparently it’s not just women who can have babies… It all started when a British cancer charity decided to
Warren Buffett has famously quipped that his preferred holding period for an investment is “forever.” Once he zeroes in on a great business and buys a huge stake in the company, he never wants to sell. Ever. This concept of long-term investing is simple to understand but hard to put
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