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Rejoice, America, the federal government is FINALLY going to step in and fix the biggest problem of our time. Naturally I’m not talking about the border. Or inflation. Or the national debt. Or America’s waning geopolitical power. Or the looming insolvency of Social Security. Or rising crime. Or the broken
On June 5, 1947, US Secretary of State George Marshall gave the commencement speech at Harvard University. This was just two years after the end of World War II, and in this speech, he first proposed giving $12 billion (approximately $170 billion in 2024 dollars) in economic assistance to help
I’m on my way back home from Mexico City after an incredible weekend event here with more than 100 of our Total Access members. First things first, if you’ve never been to Mexico City, I highly recommend it. A lot of people have a misconception that the city is some
On March 2, 1901, a group of prominent American businessmen, including J.P. Morgan, Charles Schwab and Andrew Carnegie, came together to form the largest business enterprise the world had ever seen. Through the consolidation of Carnegie Steel Company along with several other steel and iron businesses, they formed US Steel.
Located in Mediterranean Sea about halfway between Greece and Turkey is the island of Crete… which has attracted human civilization for more than 100,000 years. Today roughly 600,000 people call the island home. But millions of tourists also visit the popular vacation spot each year. It’s known for it’s beaches,
[Editor’s Note: Today’s article was written by a colleague who recently traveled to Russia. These are his observations about the current situation on the ground.] Today in Russia, there is unmistakable tension in the air. You definitely don’t want to speak out against the war or the current regime— it’s
On November 5, 1605 Guy Fawkes was caught in the cellars of the Parliament building in London in what became known as the Gunpowder Plot— a conspiracy to assassinate King James I and restore a Catholic monarch to the English throne. Guy Fawkes was arrested, tortured, and executed. And his
Dwight Eisenhower had a huge problem in 1948. After winning the war in Europe and defeating the Nazis, “Ike” was one of the most popular and recognizable men in the world… and publishing houses were falling all over themselves for his memoirs. Doubleday, a New York based publisher, won the
If you saw Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Oppenheimer, you might remember the scene in which Dr. Oppenheimer travels to Chicago to meet with physicist Enrico Fermi, who had just achieved the world’s first ever self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. This really happened– it was December 2, 1942, and Enrico Fermi’s experiment was
At 3:15 in the morning on May 10, 1774, King Louis XV of France passed away after a grueling, two-week battle with smallpox. Upon hearing the news, his heir and grandson– 19-year old Louis XVI, reportedly cried out, “God protect us, I am too young to rule. . . I
Carolyn Maloney must be furious. This career politician with five decades of experience, as I wrote in at the very beginning of the year, was the chief architect of a completely ridiculous law known as the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) which went into effect on January 1st. The CTA was
It’s hard to say with a straight face that an asset hovering near its all-time high could be a “contrarian” investment. But I’m going to say it anyhow– I think gold may be a contrarian play right now. Now, it would be easy to assume that gold is near its
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