After hackers stole digital currency assets from South Korean currency exchange Coinrail recently, the question must be asked, can bitcoin and other crypto-currencies be safe? The problems don’t seem to lie in the blockchain technology, but instead in the exchanges that provide servicing to crypto-currency users. This isn’t the first time an exchange has been […]
John Brennan: The Truth was Irrelevant
Kimberley Strassel, writing in her column at The Wall Street Journal, slays the narrative pushed by former CIA Director John Brennan as only she can. She writes: Mr. Brennan has taken credit for launching the Trump investigation. At a House Intelligence Committee hearing in May 2017, he explained that he became “aware of intelligence and […]
“Robert Mueller, You’re Fired”
Imagine your summer just ended. It’s time for Americans to get back to work. Picture yourself on that Tuesday night after Labor Day watching President Trump deliver the following speech from the White House including the words “Robert Mueller, you’re fired.” Angelo M. Codevilla senior fellow of the Claremont Institute, professor emeritus of international relations […]
Facebook: “A Giant Blood-Engorged Tick Hanging off Your Frontal Lobe”
“Designed to be addictive, Facebook feels like a giant blood-engorged tick hanging off your frontal lobe,” writes Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone. You may recall, Taibbi coined Goldman Sachs as a “[G]reat vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity.” In his piece on Facebook, where the median salary is $240,430, Taibbi makes a case […]
Will Tech Elite Crush the Heartland in 2018?
An army of the elite Silicon Valley tech workers with extra time on their hands are fighting hard to impose their political views on the heartland of America. The group, known as Tech for Campaigns, is carpetbagging its way into elections all around the country to back candidates approved by the West Coast liberal orthodoxy. […]
In Rural Georgia, Teachers are the First Responders
In rural Georgia, school administrators are encouraging teachers and other school employees to arm themselves. With schools spread far and wide in the sparsely populated county of Laurens, it could take a long time for police to engage an intruder at the schools. Those minutes could equate to many lives. School personnel are being asked […]
You Need to Know that Changes are Coming to Your Savings Plan
Congress is actively seeking ways to encourage more small businesses to use retirement savings plans. That’s a good thing for America’s savers. But be wary that the bill may also encourage greater use of annuities, which I have warned readers about repeatedly (see here, here, and here for a sample). The bill will also encourage […]
Thinking of Moving for Retirement? Check This Out
Guess who needs the most of your dollars to survive? You guessed it, Washington D.C. If you’re a retiree who has been living and working in Washington D.C. for your entire career, you would without a doubt stretch your dollars further if you moved to a less expensive locale. Washington D.C. is the most expensive […]
My Concerns as Money Piles Up at Vanguard
Let the good times roll? Great lyrics from the Cars but it’s a song I can’t get out of my head thinking about the money piling up by the truckload at Vanguard’s back door. We’re talking nearly $300 billion in the first nine months of this year alone. All of that money unloaded and stacked […]
Misery in Missouri
On Tuesday, union bosses spent big money to strong arm voters in Missouri to overturn a recently passed (2016) right-to-work law. Overturning its right-to-work laws essentially eliminates the word “choice” for workers. Now, instead of having a choice whether or not to join the union, workers will be forced to pay dues in order to […]
Yes, that is Real Socialism in Venezuela
Coffee has been grown in Venezuela since the late 1800s, but today a minimum-wage employee in Venezuela can afford only 5 cups of coffee a month on their wages, with nothing left over. The trouble with Venezuelan socialism, just like all attempts at socialism, is that it misallocates resources. Now, after years of a fictional […]
Lone Star Success: Texas’ Booming Economy
With oil prices rising once again, the economy of Texas is roaring. In the fourth quarter Texas’ GDP increased by 5.2%. However, Texas’s success isn’t rooted solely in its possession of oil. North Dakota, home to most of the Williston Basin saw its economy decline by 1.3%. The economics of Texas’ Permian Basin make its […]