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Most people realize that 2020 has thrust two game-changing trends upon us that will change the world for years to come. The first is Covid. In less than six months, this virus has created extreme global hysteria and economic devastation. Countless businesses have gone bust or are teetering on the edge. Tens of
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, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Art museum curator cancelled for not abandoning “white male artists” Gary Garrels was the Senior Curator of
By the late 200s AD, the economy of ancient Rome was in serious distress. There was hardly a single year during that entire century without some major crisis– civil war, barbarian invasion, plague, imperial assassination, political scandal, or economic depression. It was so bad, in fact, that historians refer to this period as
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, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Jail time in Colorado town for not wearing a mask Englewood, Colorado, a major suburb of Denver,
I’m an immigrant. And I’ve been an immigrant for most of my adult life. Over the past 20+ years, I’ve lived in ten different countries across Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, and I’ve spent far more time outside my native country (the United States) than in it. In most cases, whenever
In the 1650s, European rivals like England and France were busy dividing up the New World in North America. France settled much of modern day Quebec in Canada, and England initially settled colonies in the mid-Atlantic. The English and French didn’t have much in common, and they were bitter rivals. But one thing
By the summer of 1789, the people of France finally reached their breaking point. France was the largest, most powerful empire in the world at the time. But their economy had been in ruins for years. Unemployment was high. Inflation had spiraled out of control. And after a very tough winter, many people
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, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. 2 + 2 = imperialism Making its rounds on Twitter is a Tweet stating: “Nope the idea
It’s nothing but rosy news coming from the Federal Reserve. Recently the Fed released this reassuring statement: “The banking system remains well-capitalized under even the harshest of these downside scenarios. . .” In other words, everything is just fine. Yet at the same time, the Fed also announced that it would impose restrictions
A few months ago when the US government announced its ‘Paycheck Protection Program’ for small businesses, my first thought was, “This is going to be seriously abused.” PPP, as it’s called, was the crown jewel in Uncle Sam’s efforts to sprinkle trillions of dollars around the US economy; the idea was that the
Well, we knew it was bound to happen sooner or later. Last week a handful of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison called for a statue of Abraham Lincoln to be removed from the campus. Unlike other more ‘controversial’ Lincoln statues that portray him breaking the chains of slavery, this one simply shows
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, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. A million dead people received stimulus checks totalling $1.4 billion In response to coronavirus lockdowns, a tanking
On September 3, 1838 Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey sat in a train car heading north out of Baltimore. Frederick would later recount how his heart pounded as he waited for the conductor to check his papers. As a black man in a southern slave state, Frederick had to prove he was legally allowed
By the mid-1990s, the economy of Zimbabwe was in serious trouble. The national government under its dictator Robert Mugabe had spent years confiscating private property– real estate, businesses, factories, bank deposits, etc. And unsurprisingly, this had a disastrous effect on the economy. Productive citizens and talented entrepreneurs left Zimbabwe in droves– after all,
In early 1775, Benjamin Franklin and his European colleague, Charles Dumas, developed a secret method of communicating with each other. Dumas had spent years gathering intelligence in Europe to assist the Americans in their revolt against Britain. But the two needed a secure way to pass information across the Atlantic. So they developed
