STAFF NEWS & ANALYSIS
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May 26, 2018
Your life insurance company. Your pension fund. Your bank. The fixed-income mutual fund where you invested your retirement savings. ...
May 25, 2018
May 25, 2018. A warning to travelers: even a random picture of marijuana could lead to a revoked visa at customs. ...
May 24, 2018
Wake up, stand up, and make your activism count for something more than politics. ...
May 23, 2018
Immigration and terrorism are used as an excuse to violate your rights. ...
May 22, 2018
And if you’re domiciled on the island, dividends that you pay to yourself are tax free… which means your effective tax rate on corporate and dividend income altogether is just 4%. ...
May 20, 2018
"Congressman Mike Bishop of Michigan announced on Tuesday that he sent a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue expressing concerns about the USDA lab in Beltsville." ...
May 19, 2018
It is my belief that globalist hierarchies actually seek out people with narcissistic and sociopathic personalities; that they do this deliberately when they wish to expand their ranks. These seem to be the only aspects that they all have in common. ...
May 18, 2018
People routinely “vote with their feet,” meaning that they choose to relocate to a better environment when the opportunity arises. ...
May 17, 2018
Unlike socialism, which attempts to impose rules and institutions regardless of their conformity to human nature or desires, markets arise out of our human qualities. ...
May 16, 2018
As if things weren’t bad enough for beleaguered Tesla… ...
May 16, 2018
It’s the endless, petty tyrannies inflicted on an overtaxed, overregulated, and underrepresented populace that occasionally nudge a weary public out of their numb indifference and into a state of outrage. ...
May 15, 2018
Turns out, you're more likely to be environmentally friendly if you are skeptical of climate change. ...
May 14, 2018
Individualism doesn't mean rejecting all groups and partnerships. It means being free to choose who you associate with. ...
May 13, 2018
These financial crises are not hard to predict... unless you're a successful mainstream economist. ...
May 12, 2018
The U.S. has engaged in everything they cited as reasons for sanctioning Iran. ...
May 11, 2018
The unions are driving their own pensions into the ground; and the government has ZERO bandwidth to bail anyone out, least of all itself. ...
May 10, 2018
Calling citizens customers is like calling slaves employees. "Customer" implies that you could take your business elsewhere. ...
May 09, 2018
This is about building a life by your own design, and refusing to accept the limitations and obligations foisted on you by governments, corporations, and mainstream society. ...
May 08, 2018
The government is essentially charging a fee to look the other way, and allow banks to continue screwing their customers. ...
May 07, 2018
Specific to Bitcoin, for example, a truly honest assessment of the core software may lead to the conclusion that it’s technologically inferior to newer tokens and coins. ...
May 06, 2018
“Let’s make the story all about WHO we claim stole the emails, rather than WHAT THE EMAILS CONTAINED.” ...
May 04, 2018
Tesla is just one of a multitude of high-flying, hot-shot companies whose entire business models are based on burning through cash, managed by executives who don’t care. ...
May 03, 2018
The arms race has started: deep fakes versus tech that exposes them. The only problem is that the technology that will supposedly tell us what is real and what is not... was created by DARPA. ...
May 02, 2018
Some things are more important than a comedian's set. ...
May 01, 2018
It’s the oldest con game in the books, the magician’s sleight of hand that keeps you focused on the shell game in front of you while your wallet is being picked clean by ruffians in your midst. ...
April 30, 2018
Hang on a second... ISIS only taxes their citizens at 10%?! ...
April 29, 2018
As it turns out, cops are putting communities at risks all by themselves. Here are ten instances just from the last few weeks that show cops are earning their bad reputations: ...
April 28, 2018
In other words, this is predatory behavior... It is greed and power lust that makes people predisposed to feeling offended. ...
April 27, 2018
If you understand yourself--your habits, needs, emotions, triggers, and strengths--you can better control your outcomes. ...
April 26, 2018
At one point or another, we will all want the right to say, "No thanks, I don't want to serve you, I don't want to patronize you, I don't want to talk to you, have sex with you, or pay for your housing." ...
April 25, 2018
The underground gambling industry is worth $196 billion a year, dwarfing the legal $41 billion industry. ...
April 25, 2018
The government has a well-documented track record of treating citizens like laboratory rats and guinea pigs in their sinister experiments. ...
April 24, 2018
A Massachusetts lab technician, Sonja Farak, came to work high every day for 8 years. Well technically, sometimes she arrived sober but was soon high as a kite. ...
April 23, 2018
Police in riot masks arrested protesters for wearing masks. ...
April 21, 2018
The group has received at least $55 million from the UK government and an additional $23 million from the U.S. government, both of whom have regime change interests in the region. ...
April 20, 2018
They think they have proven that if you have a government you don't need religion. ...
April 19, 2018
This new technique is being rolled out and law enforcement is calling it “groundbreaking,” as it can pull information from even partial photos ...
April 19, 2018
An analysis by investment firm Artemis Capital Management, in fact, argues that more than 40% of corporate earnings growth between 2009 and 2017 is due to share buybacks… not actual profit. ...
April 18, 2018
It’s a very simple calculus: when your government goes into debt, YOU are the collateral. ...
April 18, 2018
If the government can just take from you what they want, when they want, and then use it however they want, you can’t claim to be anything more than a serf in a land they think of as theirs. This was the case in the colonial era, and it’s the case once agai ...
April 17, 2018
Second passports and foreign citizenship opens doors around the world and provides a solid emergency insurance. ...
April 16, 2018
A different brain doesn't necessarily mean an ill brain. At what point does breaking social norms become a disease? ...
April 14, 2018
Anyone else getting deja vu? Can we stop history from repeating itself yet again? ...
April 13, 2018
Financial freedom means you are in control. This is how to cut the stress, and take unexpected expenses in stride. ...
April 12, 2018
At a time when the war is almost won for Assad, he decided to re-ignite international calls for his ouster by senselessly murdering about the same number of civilians the Las Vegas Shooter killed. Seems logical, right? ...
April 11, 2018
The uncertainty of daily life in Venezuela has made fleeing the best option. Guillermo should be enjoying retirement, instead, he is starting over. ...
April 10, 2018
To have an intellectually honest discussion about transgender issues, transgender advocates need to recognize the difference between the terms gender and sex. They should stop using these terms selectively whenever it suits their argument. ...
April 10, 2018
"All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country." ...
April 09, 2018
"...the Fed will have to raise rates faster and/ or sell more securities, which certainly could lead to more uncertainty and market volatility. Whether this would lead to a recession or not, we don’t know." ...
April 08, 2018
"My parents have lost their long-nurtured nest egg to the whim of a young authoritarian politico... this may entirely change how they live out the rest of their lives." ...
