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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
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. Feminist group thinks heterosexual relationships are “violent” and should be banned The “Federation des Femmes du Quebec” is a Canadian feminist group
If you feel like you’ve been watching a meteor streaking across the sky over the past several weeks, it turns out it was just Tesla stock soaring to astronomical heights. As of Tuesday afternoon, Tesla’s stock price was up 4x in the last four months, more than double since the beginning of January,
Recently the prominent investment bank Goldman Sachs announced that they would no longer work with companies whose Boards of Directors consisted exclusively of white males. Specifically the bank will immediately require prospective clients to have at least one female or one non-white individual, on the Board of Directors. And by 2021, a company
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. Pedophile released from prison due to sex change Joseph Matthew Smith molested 15 children, and his victims were as young as one
Earlier this week I sent one of my team members to a banking conference here in Puerto Rico hosted by the Federal Reserve. It might strike you as strange that the Fed would be holding an event in Puerto Rico, but it’s not that unusual. Puerto Rico is a US territory and hence
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. Which specific body parts can women expose before being sex offenders? After installing fiberglass insulation, Tilli Buchanan and her husband stripped off
Apparently Bill Gates has sat on his ass and contributed nothing to Microsoft’s success over the past 44 years… at least, according to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. At an event commemorating Martin Luther King on Monday, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez told the audience that wealthy people “sat on a couch” while “undocumented workers” earning “slave wages”