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Yesterday the United States Senate Budget Committee held a hearing on Social Security solvency. And one of the most interesting things about it is that it didn’t make the news. At all. It’s crazy. Every single senator on that committee acknowledged that Social Security will run out of money in roughly six years.
A few days ago, the United States Treasury Department quietly published the “Financial Report of the United States Government for fiscal year 2025”. No press conference. No prime-time coverage. Just a PDF uploaded to a government website. It is, arguably, the most important financial document published in the country each year— the government’s
You don’t have to look very hard these days to see widespread criticism of the conflict in Iran. Obviously, there are the usual suspects like the New York Times and Washington Post who have called it “folly” and “rotten”. But plenty of voices on the right have joined in the criticism as well.
Sometimes it feels like governments are actively trying to make everything worse. “Affordable” healthcare that no one can afford. AI regulations designed to ensure 450 million Europeans are the last people on earth to benefit from the most revolutionary technology in decades. And the teachers unions that fund these politicians doing everything in
On March 10, a nonpartisan Washington think tank called the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget published a report called: “Break Glass: A Plan for the Next Economic Shock.” It points out that the United States has never entered an economic downturn as indebted as it is today— meaning there is essentially zero
In the year 1429 during the reign of King Sejong the Great in modern day Korea, the royal government took the advice of its Chinese-trained scholars and set up gender-separated medical saunas, known as hanjeungmak. The saunas were fed by nearby hot springs and often maintained by Buddhist monks; in this way they
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan and triggered a massive tsunami that slammed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Three of the plant’s six reactors melted down, and it became the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. On the other side of the world, German
Charles Howard, the 11th Duke of Norfolk was known as the “Jockey Duke” for his hard gambling, hard-drinking, hard eating, and hard womanizing. But above all else, he was politically ambitious. And the Duke had his eye particularly fixed on the borough of Horsham in southern England because of its unique political characteristics.
It was the early 2000s, and poor Monty was down on his luck. An aging, out-of-work game hunter and security guard, Monty had been unemployed for quite some time. Fortunately, he was getting by, but living off the generosity of a family in southern California who had taken him in. Without them Monty
The Persian Sasanian Empire– also known as the Empire of the Iranians– had become a major problem for Rome by the middle of the 3rd century AD. The Iranians were ruled by an extremely aggressive king named Shapur I who had little respect for the Roman Empire’s grandeur and authority. And with limited
A new Gallup poll finds that 29% of Americans now say government itself is the country’s biggest problem. That’s a higher percentage than people who think America’s biggest problem is the economy. Or immigration. Or inflation. Think about that for a moment. The institution whose entire job is to solve problems has become,
Try to wire $15,000 to a foreign bank account sometime. You’ll be asked to fill out compliance forms explaining the purpose of the transfer. Your bank’s compliance department will review the transaction. A Currency Transaction Report will be filed with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. And depending on the bank, you may receive
“OK, so now I just want a bunker,” a close friend of mine texted over the weekend. And I get it. Fear, apprehension, unease… these are completely normal feelings right now. Google Trends shows that searches for “WW3” and “nuclear war” spiked over the weekend. Similar hashtags on social media (#WW3, etc.) also
Western civilization is starting to feel like one big satire. And at some point you have to stop and remind yourself— none of this is normal. And you’re not crazy for thinking so. Here are a few of this week’s most absurd stories in case you missed them. In New York City: Voter
In 1954, Frank Sinatra was on top of the world. He’d just won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in From Here to Eternity — a comeback role that rescued his career after years of decline and a voice hemorrhage that nearly ended it all. Hollywood was paying him handsomely again. But
