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We certainly live in extraordinary times. Even people who have been irrationally dismissive of the Corona pandemic up until this point finally had to wake up and smell reality yesterday. The NBA. Tom Hanks. European travel ban. Our human brains, while magnificent and inspiring, are also wired in bizarre ways. We’re filled with
The year 1348, in the words of historian A.L. Maycock, was the closest that humanity ever came to going extinct. That was the year the Black Death descended on the European continent. And many historians today estimate that it killed as much as 60% of Europe’s population. Italy was hit especially hard by
[Editor’s note: This letter was written by Joe Jarvis, a Sovereign Man team member based in Puerto Rico.] Do you ever wonder what your bank account would look like today if you had made different career and life decisions? Well, a UK judge took the liberty of answering that question for one woman
This is going to be a rough day for a lot of folks. But it’s one that I’ve been writing about for quite some time. I’ve been saying for years that, at some point, there will be a severe financial reckoning. We wouldn’t know how, and most likely, we would have very little
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, your finances, and your prosperity… and on occasion, poetic justice. Hillary Clinton’s Email Scandal Just Rose From the Dead Ignorance of the law is no excuse for
On October 19, 1987, the US stock market suffered the worst crash in its more than 200 year history, dropping more than 23% in a matter of hours. It wasn’t just in the United States, either. More than 20 major stock markets around the world, from London to Hong Kong to Australia, fell
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, your finances, and your prosperity. Man fined almost $7 million for painting his own property In 2002, the owner of some dilapidated warehouses in New York City
Last week Wells Fargo paid the largest fine yet for one of it’s many scandals– $3 billion. This time, the fine was for opening bank accounts under customers’ names without the customers’ knowledge or consent. Workers at Wells Fargo did this to boost their own sales goals. They forged customers’ signatures, falsified records,
In the year 1520, exactly 500 years ago, a German scholar named Johan Schoner completed a map of the world that was widely considered to be humanity’s most advanced understanding of geography at that time. To us, Schoner’s map is pretty amusing. There’s scarcely any American continent. Instead he drew some amorphous blobs
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, your finances, and your prosperity. UK urges parents to report their kids to police for using normal technology Police in the UK are distributing a flyer to
Last month the US government’s National Vital Statistics System released data showing that the birth rate in the Land of the Free has dropped to -yet another- ALL TIME LOW. It’s the FOURTH year in a row that the fertility rate has reached a record low in the US, meaning that the issue
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, your finances, and your prosperity. You can now pay $2500 to be told you’re racist Are you a liberal white woman who wants to pay money to
Tuesday night after the New Hampshire primary, US Presidential candidate Andrew Yang dropped out of the race due to his poor showing. If you’re not familiar, Andrew Yang famously proposed a Universal Basic Income for all US adults: everyone would have received a “Freedom Dividend” of $1,000 a month under his plan, funded
One of the really interesting things about where I live here in Puerto Rico is that my house is located within the grounds of a resort… so I bump into a fair number of tourists when I’m at the gym or walking on the beach. People engage me in conversation a lot– they
Today the federal government will release a nearly $5 TRILLION annual budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2021 (which begins on October 1st of this year). Needless to say, that’s more money than any government has ever spent in the history of the world. And there are a few things in particular that are
