“Do you see the waves crashing over that rock dead ahead?” my dad said loud enough for me to hear over the 25-knot winds and 7-foot waves crashing over our bow. “Yes, got it,” I said. “We’re good on this heading. We can round that red can up about a quarter mile ahead.” “It’s at […]
State Pension Funds Brace for Private Equity Losses
Pensions are bracing for their private equity losses as officials predict grim results. And that’s not even accounting for the fact that valuations can be far worse than reported. From the WSJ: Andy Nick, a managing director at Jefferies’ private capital advisory arm, said private-equity managers tend to understate both gains and losses during individual […]
DeSantis Batted .313 in Four Seasons at Yale
I like this tidbit from The Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy: Sticking to our political theme, are you aware that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was baseball captain at Yale, where he teamed with former Red Sox lefthander Craig Breslow? DeSantis grew up in Dunedin, Fla., spring home of the Blue Jays, and played on a Little […]
Remembering Ronald Read Who Died with an $8 Million Fortune
Do you remember our old friend Ronald Read who died in Brattleboro, VT, in 2015 with an $8 million fortune? “He lived modestly, working as a maintenance worker and janitor at a J.C. Penney store after a long stint at a service station that was owned in part by his brother,” writes Anna Prior in The WSJ. […]
DeSantis Describes the Great American Exodus
Americans are moving to where their money and freedoms are respected. Below, The Wall Street Journal’s Daniel Henninger describes Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida explaining what he calls the “Great American Exodus.” Henninger writes: Shortly before the Vineyard controversy, Gov. DeSantis delivered an interesting speech near Miami to a convocation of conservatives. Some called it a test […]
Honey, Where’d all the Covid Money Go?
Government spending begets the abuse of government spending. The flood of government Covid spending has generated a vast amount of fraud. A Labor Department report released on Thursday found that criminals potentially stole $45.6 billion in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims. That’s about as much as the budgets of the EPA and the National Science Foundation […]
How Long Will Your Pension Fund Last?
Retired public employees from California are suffering the ill effects of having their pension fund, CalPERS, the largest in the country, politicized. CalPERS has focused intently on using its influence in markets to achieve political goals, but now shareholders are getting upset with its lackluster performance. The Wall Street Journal’s James Freeman reports: There is […]
World’s Most Advanced Military Aircraft Soon to be Unveiled
The U.S. Airforce will unveil its B-21 Raider and end the secrecy that surrounds one of the most advanced aircraft ever built. The historic event will take place the first week of December at Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale site. Attendance will be by invitation only. Read Northrop Grumman’s full press release on the event below: Northrop […]
Military Helicopter of the Future – S-97 Raider
Experience a full flight demonstration of the S-97 Raider at Sikorsky’s Flight Test Facility in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Sink Your Teeth into These Bond Yields
“Red sky in morn, sailors take warn,” goes the saying. On this morning, the sun was as red as a lollipop, the kind that turns your tongue so red you want to show it to whoever’s next to you. Your Survival Guy heard it’s the dust, spun up from the wind, reflecting off the sun. […]
Are You Getting Enough Vitamin K2?
Americans understand that they need calcium to support strong bones, but even those who are supplementing with calcium don’t always understand the important part Vitamin K2 plays in getting that calcium where it needs to go. In times of trouble fresh fruits and vegetables may not be readily available which is why Your Survival Guy […]
Sen. Josh Hawley Skewers Biden Nominee with Her Own Words
Recently Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) questioned Colleen Shogan, Joe Biden’s nominee to be Archivist at the United States National Archives and Records Administration. Hawley asks Shogan about an article she wrote titled “Anti-Intellectualism in the Modern Presidency: A Republican Populism.” Hawley questioned whether or not Shogan’s point was “that Republicans are stupid?” Watch the exchange […]
You’ve Created Your Own Kingdom, Your Everlasting Life
What can we learn about lifelong wealth from the passing of Queen Elizabeth II? For one, as I wrote to you yesterday, “to do nothing is the hardest job of all.” If you think about your lifelong endeavor of compounding, like I most certainly do in my life, then you rise above the day-to-day noise […]
Former Boston Bruins Captain Zdeno Chara Retires
Zdeno Chara, a Boston giant, retired yesterday from the NHL, signing a one-day contract to finish out his career as a Bruin. My kids had the pleasure of watching Chara man the blue-line on cold January nights, taking breaks from their homework to ask about the game. He will be missed for those wonderful memories […]
TUCKER EXPLAINS: Martha’s Vineyard Mayhem
Tucker Carlson, the host of Fox News primetime show Tucker Carlson Tonight, slams the people of Martha’s Vineyard as “not particularly compassionate.” Watch: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tucker Carlson Tonight (@tuckercarlsontonight)
Americans Find Themselves under Increasingly Detailed Surveillance
Since the revelations of Edward Snowden, Americans have become increasingly aware that they are heavily surveilled, not only by their government but by private corporations as well. You have previously read about this concept that Your Survival Guy calls the Virtual Panopticon. Last week, a new layer of surveillance was added to the net, with […]