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By the year 41 BC, just a few years after the assassination of Julius Caesar, Rome was under the strict rule of a three-person dictatorship known as the Tresviri rei publicae constituendae. Historians today refer to this committee as the Triumvirate, and it included a general named Aemilius Lepidus, as
Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Hunter Biden: The Greatest Businessman of All Time Forget Elon Musk. Hunter Biden must clearly be the greatest businessman of all
In the market for a second passport via a Citizenship By Investment (CBI) program? While we report on CBI programs around the world routinely, there’s one program we hardly ever mention – the Vanuatu CBI. Here’s why… Situated in the South Pacific, northeast of Australia, Vanuatu is a tiny island
One of the most repeated lessons we see over and over again throughout human history is that bumbling politicians almost invariably try to ‘fix’ inflation with price controls. Emperor Diocletian famously imposed strict price controls across the Roman Empire in 301 AD to fight off inflation that had resulted from
On Wednesday July 3rd in the year 1315, King Louis X of France– also know as “Louis the Headstrong”– issued a groundbreaking edict. “Whereas, according to natural right, everyone should be born free. . .” he began. “Many persons amongst our common people have fallen into the bonds of slavery,
Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Oregon Schools To Provide Tampons in Boys’ Bathrooms A new law taking effect this fall requires all schools in Oregon to
Longtime readers know that, with few exceptions, I typically don’t invest in the stock market. And my reasons are numerous: For starters, stocks are one of the most highly manipulated asset classes in the world. For years, stock prices have been heavily influenced by central bank monetary policy, election outcomes,
Zhang Hongbing was 14 years old when the Cultural Revolution began to sweep China in 1966. But even though the Chinese Communist Party had already been in power for nearly two decades by that point, Chairman Mao still believed that there was too much capitalist influence in China. So he
By the early Spring of 1696, England was on the brink of a major currency crisis that had been building for decades. This was back in an era where English money was primarily silver; more than 1,000 years ago, in fact, Britain’s pound sterling was originally struck by Anglo-Saxon kings
Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. CDC Secretly Tracked Americans’ Locations During COVID Lockdowns During the pandemic, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) secretly tracked
Looking to obtain residency in sunny Greece, but don’t want to throw $250K at a Golden Visa property? With the country’s residency program for Financially Independent Persons (FIP), you’re officially in luck. Let’s take a look at what’s required, and why this option makes a lot of sense… Getting Greek
Elon Musk may be the richest man in the world, but he has a long way to go before he catches up with Jakob “The Rich” Fugger—a powerful merchant banker who lived in the 1500s. (Fugger’s name rhymes with ‘cougar’, not ‘bugger’. But as you’ll see below, it was aptly
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