My March Rage Gauge: Take Inventory of Your Investment Life My March Rage Gauge is in, and it feels like the calm before the storm. Does that mean the market will have a huge downward correction this year? Like I’ve written to you in the past, I’m not in the prediction business. Because for you to […]
A Cyber-attack Didn’t Take Down Venezuela’s Power Grid, Socialism Did
Rolling blackouts have plagued Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, since February, and longer blackouts have been the norm more recently. The government and even Russia have blamed the blackouts on a cyber-attack by the United States, but the Wall Street Journal’s Ryan Dube reports that the problem has more to do with the brain drain happening at […]
Another Win for the Right to Work
Toyota has announced it will build a new plant in Alabama. Right to Work states like Alabama are popular destinations for automakers who want to build cars in the United States without the negative influences of the UAW. the Wall Street Journal’s Adrienne Roberts reports: Toyota Motor Corp. TM +0.13% on Thursday raised its planned investment in its U.S. […]
RIP Hal Blaine, Master Drummer
Legendary “Wrecking Crew” drummer Hal Blaine passed away this week. Blaine was the studio drummer on thousands of songs, and hundreds of hits. One of the best was Good Vibrations from Brian Wilson’s masterpiece album, Pet Sounds. It was the Beach Boys’ eleventh album, and Wilson wanted it to be perfect. Blaine was the obvious […]
The 16 States With Constitutional Carry
I recently wrote to you that Governor Matt Bevin of Kentucky signed a bill giving Kentuckians the right to concealed carry without a permit. The NRA said that Kentucky was the 16th state to recognize constitutional carry. Here’s the list as it stands today: Alaska Arizona Arkansas Idaho Kansas Kentucky Maine Mississippi Missouri New Hampshire […]
Cryptocosm and Life After Google: Is Tether No Longer Credible?
What happens when the core promises of a crypto-currency no longer hold true? Frances Coppola, a Senior Contributor at Forbes explains that Tether, a so-called “stablecoin,” that is supposedly pegged to the U.S. dollar may not be as linked to the fiat currency as has been advertised. She writes: USDT is the foremost stablecoin in […]
Is Your State a Property Tax Hell?
If you don’t live in the Northeast, it’s likely that it could be worse. According to a Tax Foundation analysis, the 6 states with the highest property tax collections per capita are in the northeast, with those ranked eighth and tenth joining them there. The region is property tax hell. Outside New Jersey (1st), New […]
Dick’s Sporting Goods’ Slow Divorce with American Gun Owners
After upsetting gun owners last year by folding to liberal political demands to cease its sales of sporting rifles, Dick’s Sporting Goods has announced it will be removing all guns from 125 stores. The decision follows a trial period in which Dick’s removed hunting rifles from 10 stores where its gun shop had under-performed. In […]
Who is Behind the Murderous Cyber Weapon, Triton?
Experts are warning of a sophisticated new cyber weapon that could target the last line of defense in U.S. water treatment facilities, transportation systems, and nuclear power stations. FireEye, a cyber security firm believes Russia is fine tuning a cyber weapon aimed at disabling safety systems that prevent catastrophic industrial accidents. There has never been […]
Tucker Explains: The Left’s Crackdown on Dissent
Tucker Carlson hits back at critics of his past statements. He explains that by “defining political disagreements as a mortal threat to the country, something that’s dangerous.” The left has set its sites on Carlson, and Fox News, and is using groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center and George Soros funded Media Matters to […]
Connecticut Just Doesn’t Learn: Now Targets the Middle Class With New “Sin” Taxes
Now that Connecticut has raised taxes on the wealthy so high many of them are fleeing the state, Ned Lamont, the state’s governor, and its legislature, are setting their sites on the middle class to fund state government. The state is overloaded with debt. After a borrowing binge, the state raised taxes, but it still […]