Anyone who has followed politics at all over the past decade probably remembers Jimmy McMillan, a.k.a. “The Rent Is Too Damn High” guy. His appearance in the 2010 New York…
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A common piece of investing advice is to do the opposite of what everyone else is doing. If everyone is piling into one asset, there’s a good chance it’s overvalued…
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One of the highlights of the mid-2000s housing bubble was the large amount of house flipping that went on. Housing prices were rising so high so fast that many amateur…
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If you’ve been following the precious metals market at all during the last 8-10 years, you’d know that gold bugs can be dogmatically bullish with their continual predictions that gold…
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It’s no surprise that Americans aren’t the best at saving money. It’s drilled into our heads from an early age through advertising and peer pressure that spending money is the…
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Who pushes society forward the most? Who is it that creates technology and valuable goods and services for the masses of people? Who is it that enhances society’s knowledge and…
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When the Federal Reserve began its massive money printing programs called quantitative easing, some conservative and free market-minded economists warned of high inflation as a result of this money printing.…
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Trump’s Capital Gains Tax Plan: Common Sense Reform Yet Derided by Liberals for “Helping the Rich”
President Trump has a new proposal to further reduce the tax burden on American taxpayers, but it’s being derided by liberals because it “helps the rich.” Trump is proposing to…
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For decades it has been commonly accepted by many that conservatives, Republicans, and the right are the banner carriers of free market capitalism. But through the decades their actions have…
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After a series of public relations crises over user privacy and censorship, Facebook dropped 19 percent and lost $120 billion of market value in a single day on July 26,…