Category: Trends & News

In the early 1300s, the county of Toulouse in southern France was locked in an epic struggle with the Catholic Church over religious freedom. A large group of individuals who called themselves “Good Christians” were sort of proto-Protestants in that they still believed in the basic tenets of Christianity, but they did not

Here are a few stories from the week that caught our eye, all of which highlight the bizarre ways that Western Civilization is sabotaging itself. Canadians screw themselves to spite Trump Canadians are celebrating that Donald Trump is not their new Prime Minister. Of course, he wasn’t on the ballot. But don’t tell

My partner Peter Schiff and I have both been pretty aggressive over the past couple of years in telling our audience that gold companies were deeply undervalued. Our thesis was simple: the price of gold was surging to fresh record highs every couple of months, yet gold companies were languishing at historic lows.

You’ve probably heard the story. As the legend goes, on a late-summer morning in 1929, Joseph Kennedy — patriarch of the famous Kennedy family — was headed into his office in downtown New York City. As he sat for a quick shoe shine, the young boy buffing his shoes, barely a teenager, eagerly

Don Edgar considered himself extremely lucky. It was early in the morning on November 6, 1956, and the World War II veteran turned journalist for Britain’s Daily Express was one of just two reporters invited to witness Britain’s invasion of Egypt. Standing on the bridge of a British warship, Edgar wrote that it

Franklin Roosevelt pressed the red emergency button to stop the elevator on the way down to his private dining room. The King of Saudi Arabia was waiting for him, but the President wanted to smoke a couple of cigarettes first. It was 11:30 in the morning on Valentine’s Day, 1945. World War II

By 1970, US commanders in Vietnam were optimistic that they had “functionally severed” North Vietnamese forces. The generals were particularly boastful about their taking out the Ho Chi Minh Trail—a sprawling network of roads, footpaths, and tunnels through Laos and Cambodia that let North Vietnamese forces move troops and supplies into South Vietnam,

When Letitia James campaigned to become Attorney General of New York State, she made one very clear campaign promise: prosecute Donald Trump. Prosecute him for what? Well, she’d figure that out later. Never mind that, in America, prosecutors are supposed to investigate crimes to find suspects, not investigate people to find crimes. But

Preparing for the escalation that’s likely to come There’s rumors floating around alleging that top secret plans from the Chinese Communist Party have been leaked, indicating that China’s President Xi Jinping views this conflict with the US as the opening to a complete and total war. Personally I’m skeptical if these leaked documents

It’s been nearly two weeks of whipsaw, roller coaster tariff moves and countermoves… all of which threatens to upend not only economic stability, but even the global financial system as we know it. I can’t stress this enough: what we’re witnessing right now will almost certainly go down as one of the most

The US has revived a Cold War dating policy in China: if she’s into you, assume she’s a spy. Four US government personnel stationed in China have anonymously told the media that every government worker and contractor stationed in China was explicitly banned from having sexual or romantic relationships with Chinese citizens. The

Yesterday I wrote to you that something very fishy was going on in the bond market. And not just fishy— potentially destructive for the federal government and US economy. For the past several days, US government bond yields have been surging at a rate not seen since at least 2008. And in some

You probably saw the headline this morning that China is retaliating against US tariffs with an 84% tariff of its own. This trade war is obviously far from over… which probably means that financial markets are in for a lot more volatility. Most people focus on the stock market. And that has obviously

Countless people around the world are dumbfounded and dismayed in the wake of this tariff chaos. And, ironically, the sentiment was probably best captured by Canada’s new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, who said, “While this is a tragedy, it is also the new reality.” He’s right on both counts. It is the new