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If You Have Nothing to Hide, Be Very Worried
Many people do not seem to mind the government peeping into their “metadata” or even into their emails, Internet habits, or phone calls. Mark …
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An Empire in Panic
A cornered rat has a deadly bite, or so says the lore from the 19th century, when rat baiting was common sport. The same …
Regulatory Outrage
Just when you think government couldn’t be more outrageous, you read a story like the one in The New York Times last weekend about …
Thank You, TSA, NSA, FBI, and CIA!
Today, we take time out from our regularly scheduled programming to thank the people who rule us. To the TSA agents at airports… to …
Detroit, Demographics and Detonation
Detroit’s fate is best summed up by the phrase “Demographics is destiny.” Take a look at the following chart on Detroit’s population growth since …
Why the White House Is Panicking About Obamacare
Actors. Actresses. NFL football players. Baseball players. Librarians. Mayors. City councilmen. Members of AARP. The Obama administration is looking far and wide, leaving no …
How Medical Innovation Redefines Our World
On a Sunday afternoon swim, a 6-year-old boy was bugging me in a sweet sort of way. He rode up and down the handrail …
So Where’s the Hyperinflation Already?
The Federal Reserve has grown the monetary base from $827 billion to $3.1 trillion in five years. At the same time banks have stuck …
Don’t Be a Casualty of War
Jim Rickards lit up the Agora Financial Investment Symposium in Vancouver telling the crowd the price of gold will soar north of $7,000 per …
Is Bitcoin Real or Not?
A frightening story this week in The New Yorker tells of a Texas couple that headed toward the Texas-Louisiana border to buy a used …