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As our founder, Simon Black is fond of saying, legally reducing your taxes is the highest investment return you’ll ever make. If you’re American, Uncle Sam will want to take a bite out of your earnings no matter where in the world you live. But nonetheless, most people can unlock some powerful tax
When Sextus Julius Africanus was born in the city of Jerusalem around the year 160 AD, the Roman Empire was still near the peak of its power. By the time Sextus was born, Antoninus Pius had ruled the empire with a steady hand for more than twenty years; his reign was peaceful and
In the late summer of 408 AD, a barbarian army under the command of Alaric, king of the Visigoths, set out on a leisurely march across the Italian countryside towards the city of Rome… so that he could burn it to the ground. Alaric had been promised money by the Roman government in
With only days to go before the federal government of the Land of the Free defaults on its debt, it appears that a compromise may finally be on the horizon. As part of the bargain, both sides have agreed to slash part of the $80 billion in new funding that the IRS was
At 11:15am on July 7, 1919, a US Army convoy consisting of 81 military vehicles departed Washington, DC for a perilous journey to San Francisco. The army convoy wasn’t responding to an emergency or preparing for battle. In fact, since World War I had just ended, the United States was shifting focus back
Getting my in-laws out of Ukraine last year felt like it was as complicated as planning the Normandy invasion. My wife is Ukrainian, and her family had been stuck in Kiev since the start of the war. For months leading up to the invasion, they ignored the Russian troops massing on the border
On the morning of February 23, 1944, US President Franklin Roosevelt sent an important telegram to two of his key allies overseas– British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union. World War II was still raging. And while the allies had seized the upper hand, peace was more than
On the afternoon of Sunday, June 7, 2020, a 36-year-old Chinese national named Wang Xin was at Los Angeles International Airport waiting to board Air China flight 988 back to his native Tianjin. Things were tense in the US; Covid-19 was still raging, George Floyd protests were erupting all around the country, and
In a world brimming with bewildering headlines, we spend a lot of time thinking about the future… thinking about where this trajectory leads. So, here is our latest edition of “Future Headline Friday”. This is our satirical take of where this world is going if we stay on this current path. While it
George Washington was already on his heels in late 1777. The British army had recently taken New York and Philadelphia, plus Washington had suffered recent defeats at the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown. Washington knew that unless he could regroup, rearm, and retrain his beleaguered forces, the fledgling American Revolution could soon be
Last September– a bit more than seven months ago– my father died. Technically he was my step-father, but he was every bit my dad, and I loved him. The loss was hard. We didn’t do a memorial service right away, though. My mother understandably just wasn’t in the right frame of mind. So
It is becoming increasingly clear that the world is losing faith in the United States dollar… and rapidly turning to alternatives. And that’s a huge deal for the United States. For nearly eight decades, the US economy and US government have enjoyed the unparalleled benefits of the dollar being the world’s reserve currency.
By the summer of 1563, all of Britain had plunged into chaos over religion and the Reformation. King Henry VIII broke away from the Catholic church back in the 1530s, sparking a near civil war within the kingdom. Protestants killed Catholics, Catholics killed protestants, and extreme social tensions lasted for decades. Universities were
Thousands of years ago on the 27th of July, 54 BC, the famed Roman senator Cicero wrote a letter to his friend Atticus complaining about all the corruption and bribery that was destroying Rome’s political system. There was an important election taking place that year for Roman consul, which had once been considered
If you open up U-Haul’s website and have a look at the discount page, you’ll see a huge graphic at the top of the screen advertising “Discounts on One-Way Rentals from the Midwest to the West Coast.” It shows a map highlighting middle America, with arrows pointing west to California, and urging customers
