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Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? 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. Argentina Passes Wealth Tax in the Name of COVID Recovery In response to COVID-19, Argentina implemented strict
[Editor’s note: Marat K, one of our team members who grew up during the collapse of the Soviet Union, tells the story of his own experiences during that period.] When I was a kid growing up in the Soviet Union, it was essentially forbidden to make a better life for yourself. You couldn’t
Global cooling was the big fear in the early 1970s, believe it or not. Experts in climate, ecology, and geology from top universities like Stanford and Brown all seemed to form a consensus that a new ice age would be upon us by 2020. By 1988, the major fear had shifted to global
If there were a Mount Rushmore to memorialize the greatest scientists in US history, Richard Feynman’s face would almost certainly be on the monument. He was only 24 years of age when he was recruited into a secret research group that eventually became part of the Manhattan Project, joining some of the other
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? 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. 90 year old nursing home resident chooses assisted suicide over another lockdown A Canadian woman, Nancy Russel,
NASDAQ is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world and home to most of the biggest names in tech. Companies worth a total of $17 TRILLION– nearly the entire size of the US economy– are listed on the NASDAQ exchange, including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon. You’d think the executives
Early in the morning around 3am on March 24, 1603, Queen Elizabeth I died after ruling over England for more than four decades. Her successor was proclaimed only hours later– James Charles Stuart, who at the time was serving as King of Scotland. James was known as a religious hardliner. He became obsessed
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? 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. And the Emmy Goes to the Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo Andrew Cuomo, the Governor of
Exactly 400 years ago, 102 Pilgrims were staring down what promised to be a brutal winter, after first coming to shore, and setting up a tiny village in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The industrious, God-fearing Pilgrims decided to pull together and pool their resources and efforts to better survive winter. They created a commune, and
New York City is up 33% this year. St. Louis is up 66%. In Oregon it’s up 100%. I’m not talking about real estate prices, local budget gaps, or even property tax rates. These are the startling increases in the number of people across the country, and the world, who are in need
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? 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. ACLU and Professor Team Up to Encourage Book Burnings Abigail Shrier has committed the ultimate sin: she
[Today’s letter was penned by Lucas, a member of the Sovereign Man family] Yesterday we reported how Deutsche Bank, one of the largest banks in the world, proposed that people working from home should have to pay an additional 5% tax to subsidize people who can’t work from home. As absurd as this
Once upon a time, long long ago in a dreamworld far far away, banks actually used to be capitalists. They were wealth creators. They wanted to do business with their customers. They facilitated important trade and commerce. They acted responsibly and conservatively with other people’s money. Now it’s a totally different story. Banks
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? 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. Inquisition Targets White Women for Their WrongThink The magazine Teen Vogue (yes, I’m serious) recently published a
In late 2018, after more than seven fantastic years of living in Chile, I decided to move to Puerto Rico to take advantage of the island’s incredible tax incentives. By moving to Puerto Rico, I traded my right to vote in US federal elections for a 4% tax rate. And I’m pretty confident
