Dear Reader, Last year Vanguard GNMA made just under one percent or 0.87% for 2018 as interest payments offset a decline in bond prices from rising interest rates. As I’ve written to you before, you don’t want to be in the interest rate prediction business. You simply want to collect your interest payments and let […]
70% Tax Rates Won’t Achieve Proponents’ Goals
Congress’s youngest and possibly most famous new member, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made many lofty proclamations during her time in the lime light, but perhaps the one getting the most attention is her call to raise tax rates to 70% to pay for her agenda. Rational thinkers can see the issue in taking 70% of another […]
Quebec’s Firearm Registration Backfire
Did Quebec really think gun owners would line up single file to have their rights taken away? Gun registration is the first step to gun confiscation, and Quebec’s firearms owners understand that. The NRA magazine, America’s 1st Freedom explains how Quebec’s gun owners are resisting registration. They write: Either fewer Quebeckers own guns than the […]
No Stock is Worth 100% of Your Time or Money
There is simply no company out there that has a stock safe enough for you to invest in just that one and nothing else. Even tried and true utility stocks demand diversification in your portfolio. There is no better example than what is happening to PG&E right now. PG&E is the California utility being alleged […]
Can Trump Stop the Endless Wars in Spite of His Advisers?
Donald Trump was elected on a platform of stopping the endless wars America is embroiled in, but surrounded himself with advisers and secretaries who want the opposite. Writing in The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan examines whether or not Trump will be able to overcome his advisers to make the decisions Americans elected him to make. […]
Democrats’ Opening Bid? 70% Tax Rates
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi hasn’t even warmed up her gavel, but already the newest, and youngest member of her party’s Congressional caucus, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has suggested a 70% tax rate on earnings over $10 million. That’s probably not the issue Pelosi thought she would have to explain right away to voters. John Harwood […]
Fun at the Gun Show
Former Marine officer Jeff Groom takes readers on a trip through an Ohio gun show at The American Conservative. Groom explains the multi-generational appeal of gun shows, and how his grandfather introduced him to the events. He writes: After returning to Ohio after nine years away in the Marines, I found myself with a weekend […]
The Shutdown’s Real Lesson: Too much of Economy Hostage to Government
“The problem with the shutdown is not that President Trump is holding the government ‘hostage,’ as House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said, but that the government has taken hostage of too much of the U.S. economy,” writes Chris Edwards editor of www.DownsizingGovernment.org at the Cato Institute, a Washington, DC.,-based think tank focused on limited government. […]
Does Your Investment Advisor Take Legal Kickbacks behind Your Back?
When you seek investment council be sure you work with an investment boutique that’s required by law to act as your fiduciary. Ask the question: “Are you required by law to act as my fiduciary.” Do not accept any answer other than Y-E-S. Because too many professionals in this industry put themselves out there as […]
Ceremonial Sig Sauer M17 Pistols: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
From America1Freedom.org: Silence, Respect, Dignity and Perseverance not only represent the aspects of the Sentinel’s Creed, but the name of the four pistols being presented to the Sentinel Guard protecting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The pistols were created by SIG Sauer using the specifications of the U.S. Army’s M17 Modular Handgun System and are chambered in […]
With Governments that Won’t Protect Them, Europeans Arm Themselves
Through ineptitude or outright enabling legislation, many Western European governments have allowed terrorists, whether home grown or as part of the “refugee” wave, to proliferate within their borders. The lackluster efforts by these governments to root out terrorists and deal with them accordingly, has caused many Europeans to lose faith in the ability of their […]