The bad news coming out of Venezuela just keeps getting worse. Over a year into its hyperinflationary crisis, the Venezuelan regime is clinging to anything it can to keep itself …
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Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter used to be our friends. There used to be a moment in time where your post on your channel of a thousand people used to get …
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Imagine you’re a dictatorial South American leader. You’ve printed so much money that it’s absolutely worthless and won’t buy anything. If that weren’t bad enough, you decided to implement price …
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Bump stock manufacturer Slide Fire Solutions, the inventor of the bump stock concept, has announced that it will cease operating after May 20. The company intends to stop taking orders …
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The past few decades have seen an enormous appreciation in the price of housing in the United States. Periodic pin pricks that have burst the housing bubble at times have …
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It’s one of the most commonly made arguments by populists, anti-free traders, and anti-immigrationists, that immigration results in lower wages due to the increased supply of workers. It’s an argument …
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The popular belief among mainstream investors, financial institutions, and financial news outlets is that interest rate increases are bearish for gold prices. The logic goes that as interest rates rise, …
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The March jobs report released today came in well under expectations, with an estimated 103,000 new jobs created in March versus the 193,000 that had been expected. Markets reacted negatively …
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Much of society takes money for granted. Very rarely does anyone stop and ask where money came from, what purpose it serves, and why it exists as it does today. …
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Donald Trump was swept into office promising to “Make America Great Again.” But a core position of his platform was to enact certain economic policies that would be more at …