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Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? You might want to grab a drink for this one… or take a moment to listen to some soothing meditation music. Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, finances, and possibly
What is your favorite coffee shop or restaurant? Which doctor’s office and dentist do you prefer to go to? I bet these are all within, say, 15 minutes of your home. That makes sense–who wants to drive three hours to get coffee, or take a plane to their dentist? But
In July 1994, an ex-hedge fund VP left his cushy Wall Street job and started a new company called Cadabra, Inc. He wanted to capitalize on an emerging trend that was called the “Information Superhighway” back then, what we now know today as the Internet. Cadabra was an early ‘dot-com’
Warren Buffett, despite his extraordinary investment success, has a rather famous and long-standing love/hate relationship with precious metals. Maybe it started with his dad– Congressman Howard Buffett of Nebraska– who, as a staunch advocate for the gold standard, argued to his colleagues on Capitol Hill that “paper money systems have
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 and finances. New York City starts banning words You can now be fined $250,000 in New York City for using the term “Illegal alien”
In early May in the year 878 AD, Alfred the Great of the Kingdom of Wessex fought a decisive battle against a massive Viking army at a place called Ethandun in southwest England. Alfred won the battle, defeated the Vikings, recaptured London, and united England under his rule; he’s generally
Precisely one year ago today, the US federal government opened Fiscal Year 2019 with a total debt level of $21.6 trillion: Specifically, the US federal debt on October 1st last year was $21,606,948,183,180.23 Today is the start of the government’s 2020 Fiscal Year. And the total debt is now $22,622,684,674,364.43
On Friday evening, the government here in Puerto Rico made an announcement to local retirees that many of them would have their pensions cut. Poof. Just like that. The pension cut is part of a debt restructuring plan to help Puerto Rico emerge from bankruptcy, which they declared in May
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 and finances. And for our Jewish readers, l’shanah tovah tikatev v’taihatem. NBC news wants you to confess your climate sins Bless me media, for
I’ve never really been prone to schadenfreude— a feeling satisfaction from someone else’s misfortune. But I am a big believer in the Karmic justice. If you’re a dirty scumbag who constantly lies, cheats, and steals, sooner or later the universe is going to catch up with you. And I love
An 89 year old man named Robert Allen was feeling depressed after Christmas. He went to the emergency room, and told the doctor that he had thoughts of hurting himself. Using his powers under the Baker Act, the doctor sent Robert to a mental health facility called North Tampa Behavioral.
I arrived back home to Puerto Rico late last night after traveling back from our Total Access event in Las Vegas. It was probably around 11:15 pm when I climbed into bed. And, within minutes, just as the sound of the waves outside was carrying me off to sleep, the
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