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Each Friday we highlight a number of important, and often bizarre stories from around the world that my team and I are closely following: What age do you identify as? It happens way too often here at Sovereign Man… we joke around about the next outlandish demands of Social Justice Warriors. And then
Usually around the middle of February each year, the US Treasury Department releases an annual report of the federal government’s financial condition. It’s called the Financial Report of the US Government… and it looks a lot like an annual report that you might see filed by a big company like Apple or Facebook.
My grandfather was just a toddler when soldiers came home from World War One in 1918. They brought the deadly Spanish Flu with them, which killed well over 50 million worldwide. As a young adult, my grandfather struggled through the Great Depression with the rest of the world. And just as things started
In the spring of 1692, an energetic young Scotsman named John Campbell started a new business in central London. Campbell was a goldsmith, and his business sold jewelry and other crafted metals like plates and silverware. But Campbell’s new company had another business line as well: banking. And the company he started eventually
Today we’re continuing our new weekly feature, where each Friday we highlight a number of often bizarre stories from around the world that we’re closely following. Texas tries to pass a law to legalize lemonade stands run by children When it comes to business, this story pretty much sums up how far the
Maximilian Bern had saved up 100,000 German marks for what should have been a modest, but comfortable retirement. But in 1923, he withdrew every last cent, and spent it all on one purchase: a subway ticket. He rode around his city one last time before returning home, and locking himself in his home,
Bernie Sanders believes that FREE university education a “right, not a privilege.” His fellow Bolshevik, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also believes that tuition-free university “forms the basis of human dignity” and should be provided for free by any “moral society.” They aren’t alone in holding these beliefs. A recent survey conducted by CNBC shows that
In the year 1841, people across countless sleepy villages in Ireland were participating in the most advanced census that had ever been conducted in European history. The whole of Ireland was still under the control of the United Kingdom at that point, and parliament had passed the “Population Act” the year prior to
Last week we started a new feature in Notes from the Field– a Friday roll-up of bizarre, often overlooked stories that my team and I think are worth following with great interest. Based on the positive feedback we received from last week’s article, we thought we’d continue the trend. So here are a
On the evening of March 25 in the year 1300, Italian poet Dante Alighieri stepped through the gates of Hell, passing beneath an overhead inscription that read “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” Dante summoned all of his courage and proceeded, plunging deeper into the despair of hell. This is the ‘Inferno’
Every week in Notes, we highlight the most important things happening around the world that can impact your wealth and your freedom. But there are so many more things happening than we’re able to cover in these pages. So, we’re trying something new today. Once a week, we’re planning to share a collection
Turns out Congressmen make a lot of money… A study found that while the average American’s net worth increased 3.7% per year between 2004-2012, members of Congress averaged 15.4% annual gains. That high level of pay means half the members of Congress are millionaires today… and continue to collect their $174,000 annual salary.
Here’s an economics lesson you won’t get in college. What happened to college tuition costs after the federal government started handing out student loan aid in 1965? For a typical loan, you need collateral… i.e. the bank takes your house if you don’t pay the mortgage. But with government-backed student loans, no collateral
The events that I am about to describe to you are 100% true. They have already happened to various people across the United Kingdom, which in some respects is leading the charge to 21st century “Big Brother” authoritarianism. It’s all real, and it’s all disturbing. To humanize it a little bit we have
By the year 1380, the Hundred Years’ War between England and France had already been raging for decades. And the war wasn’t going very well for England. France had managed to recapture most of the territories they had lost early in the war; meanwhile French naval fleets were ravaging the coastline of southern
