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Rene Descartes probably wasn’t thinking about gargantuan budget deficits and a $34 trillion national debt when he published Principles of Philosophy in the year 1644. But his ideas absolutely fit the scenario today. Up until that point in history, much of science and mathematics was still based on the 1,500+ year old theories
In a world full of unimaginable absurdity, we spend a lot of time thinking about the future… and to where all of this insanity leads. “Future Headline Friday” is our satirical take of where the world is going if it remains on its current path. While our satire may be humorous and exaggerated,
Yesterday Senator Elizabeth Warren used a Wall Street oversight hearing to whine about cryptocurrency. At one point, almost as if a well-choreographed football play, she passed the ball to Jamie Dimon — CEO of JP Morgan Chase, the biggest bank in the world — to “explain why crypto is such an attractive financial
It’s my sincere hope that I’m able to live both the quantity and quality of life that Charlie Munger had. Even at age 99, he appeared vivacious and energetic– as one Wall Street Journal reporter remarked after interviewing him back in September. Their session went four straight hours with Munger going nonstop the
Galileo must have already known what was going to happen when, on February 24, 1616, a panel of eleven ‘experts’ commissioned by the Catholic church delivered its final report. The panel had been ordered to assess Galileo’s work– specifically his ‘controversial’ assertion that other planets revolved around the sun– and not around the
When the international news agency AFP announced last week that libertarian outsider Javier Milei had won Argentina’s presidential election, the headline was absolutely hilarious. AFP claimed that the election of Milei– a self-described anarcho-capitalist, was “plunging the country into uncertainty in the midst of a crippling economic crisis.” Uncertainty? We’re talking about a
On Sunday March 10, 1793, in the village of Pin-en-Mauges in western France, a prominent local textile vendor named Jacques Cathelineau was peacefully enjoying his Sunday afternoon, when five men suddenly appeared to deliver urgent news. Cathelineau could probably read their faces and knew what happened before anyone said a word. By the
When journalist Don Hoefler first coined the term “Silicon Valley” in the early 1970s, the San Francisco Bay and Santa Clara valley region had already been home to thriving tech companies for decades. Then future titans like Apple and Adobe joined the scene, and the region really started to take off. Today, Silicon
We’re going to talk about strip clubs and binge drinking today. Yet surprisingly this article is not about Hunter Biden. I’m actually talking about the FDIC… as in the organization that’s supposed to insure customer deposits in the US banking system. The FDIC isn’t typically an institution that’s associated with sex, drugs, and
On the evening of June 18, 1815, in the Belgian hamlet of Mont-Saint-Jean, nearly 70,000 troops under the command of the Duke of Wellington, alongside 50,000 allied Prussian soldiers, fought against the French forces of Napoleon Bonaparte in the historic Battle of Waterloo. Waterloo was a bloody affair, with heavy casualties on both
It was late in morning on Friday October 25, 1793 when John Foss knew that his life was about to change. As a sailor working on board a commercial vessel en route to southern Spain, Foss was near the end of his three-month voyage, somewhere off the coast of Portugal. But some time
By the time Philip II ascended to the throne of Spain in the year 1556, the empire he inherited from his father was already the most dominant superpower in the world. Spain had a formidable military, and its famous naval armada struck fear in the hearts of its adversaries. Spain also held vast
Our bizarre yet wonderful world today is full of ridiculous logic and false equivalencies. We’ve been told, for example, that “silence is violence”. Or that misgendering someone is “literal violence”. It’s almost funny how much the left loves to preach against violence. Yet these are the same people who have condoned the Hamas
It’s been seven months now since Silicon Valley Bank went bust. And so much has happened in the world since then that SVB’s collapse almost feels like ancient history. But something is going to happen tomorrow– at precisely 6:45am Eastern time– that could rekindle anxiety in the banking system once again. And it’s
Like most people, I’ve been closely following what’s been going on in Israel and Gaza since Saturday’s attack. Most of our readers know that I’m a former intelligence officer; while it seems like a lifetime ago, those instincts never leave. And as I’m shaking my head in disgust at what’s happened, I also