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[Editor’s note: This letter was written by Schiff Sovereign’s CEO, Viktorija, who was born and raised in Lithuania and is now based between Mexico City and Panama.] It’s been about 15 years since I moved away from the tiny village in rural Lithuania where I grew up… and back then it still felt
In the year 711, a Berber commander named Tar-iq ibn Ziyad crossed from North Africa with a reported 7,000 men and landed at the base of the mountain that still carries his name: Jabal Tar-iq (Tar-iq’s Mountain). The name eventually became Jabal-tar, or Gibraltar. Tar-iq’s army was the western tip of a new
Government at every level had a productive week: threats were identified, action was taken, and press releases went out. Just kidding. It was another ridiculous week of mind-numbing incompetence and waste. The Senate’s answer to childhood diabetes: ban Tony the Tiger Senator Bernie Sanders— himself quite a wealthy man— has spent his career
“Press is going wild with me,” Dr. Anthony Fauci wrote in his diary on March 22, 2020, days after he had helped pressure the country into shutting down in the name of COVID. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee just released 1,141 pages of his near-daily entries from the COVID era,
The Department of Transportation’s headquarters campus in Washington spans two complexes covering 1.8 million square feet across 11-acre of prime DC real estate. In the private sector, such a trophy office property would fetch north of $1 billion per year in rental income. Yet for the federal government, two-thirds of the space sits
By the time John Adams returned home from Europe in August of 1779, he had been away from his family for sixteen long months representing US interests overseas. The Revolutionary War was still raging, and Adams would only remain home with his wife and children for a precious few months before he would
On November 27th in the year 176 AD, Marcus Aurelius promoted his 15-year old biological son Commodus to be Co-emperor of Rome. Marcus Aurelius never realized it, but he was sealing Rome’s fate… and essentially marking an end to the Empire’s golden age. Commodus was quite popular in his youth— reportedly handsome, athletic,
If you have a budget of $179,000 to spend on real estate in the United States, I hope you like renovated sheds. Or a six-hour drive to the nearest airport. But right now, $179,000 buys a typical three-room apartment in Buenos Aires, the “Paris of South America” (minus the Islamic terrorists). Studio apartments
In Ann Arbor, Michigan, there’s a psychiatry practice called Mind Work that doesn’t take Medicare. It doesn’t take Medicaid or Blue Cross or any other insurance either. Patients pay cash. The practice belongs to Dr. Sarah Jukaku, who used to be co-chief of psychiatry at University of Michigan Health— a hospital system that
On Tuesday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the nation’s first statewide ban on new AI data centers. Data center development, she explained, “threatens to hike up utility bills, deplete our natural resources, and create uncertainty for New Yorkers.” Officially it’s a one-year moratorium while Albany designs a “regulatory framework.” She’s not wrong
Hollywood is synonymous with California. It’s where the entire industry of motion pictures was born and raised for a century. The sign in the hills above Los Angeles might be the most famous advertisement on earth, and the industry built the state’s fame, its mythology, and a good part of its fortune. That
The lights went on at approximately 3pm on September 4, 1882 in New York City. Thomas Edison (with major funding from JP Morgan) had spent roughly two years building the first-ever commercial power plant, located in Manhattan’s financial district. Its total capacity was about 600 kilowatts… barely enough to power a single rack
[Editor’s note: This letter was written by Schiff Sovereign’s CEO, Viktorija] Picture the kind of life that, in the West, only the genuinely rich can afford: a full-time housekeeper who cooks and cleans, a concierge doctor you text with directly whenever you need, dinner out with friends several times each week without even
On the afternoon of September 6, 1901, President William McKinley stood in a receiving line at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, shaking hands with a crowd of well-wishers. One of the people in the crowd was a young man named Leon Czolgosz… who was patiently waiting with a revolver wrapped in
Yao Tongbin was one of the most important scientists in Maoist China. He had earned a doctorate in metallurgy in England, spent three years at a research institute in West Germany, and left it all to return to China in 1957. He spent the next 11 years building China’s first-ever modern missile program,