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September 2020

Have We Won the War?

The lessons of the past 19 years are crystal clear… By Sebastian Gorka Phd In August 1996, the scion of one of the wealthiest commoners in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia declared war on America. Five years later, Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda...

September 2020

End of America

They warned Us. Now it’s here. Are you prepared? A Conversation between Dr. Ron Paul and Porter Stansberry Introduction by Steven Longenecker Illustration by Kevin Kallaugher For years, former U.S. presidential candidate and 12-term...

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September 2020

Trump’s 2nd Term Agenda

Letter from the Editor: Editor in Chief P.J. O’Rourke When it comes to choosing between presidential campaign platforms, what should be a matter of principle can turn into a matter of taste… How do you like your lies prepared and served? Oops...

September 2020

The October Vaccine Surprise

Think a vaccine will be ready this autumn? Think again… By Dave Lashmet Expect a COVID-19 vaccine “October surprise” this election season… So far, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to roughly 6 million U.S. infections, with a 2.5% case...

September 2020

California Tax Hikes

California Progressives Go Bigly on Tax Hikes By Jason Mattera If California were its own sovereign territory, there’s a good chance President Donald Trump would’ve already added it to his list of [bleep]hole countries. From rolling energy blackouts...

September 2020

The Joy of Rioting

WHY WARRING FOR PEACE NEVER WORKS By P.J. O’Rourke I feel angry at the violent chaos, sorry for the owners of destroyed businesses and property, worried about the well-being of innocents caught in mob turmoil, sympathy for besieged law enforcement...

September 2020

Blackout… Then World War III

By Trish Regan 98% of my small New England town was without power for nearly a week. Imagine if it were 98% of the country. It’s more likely than you think… Hurricane Isaias’ storm clouds came rolling in fast last month… I was immersed...

September 2020

Gold $3,000… and Beyond

It won’t take long for gold to climb much, much higher… By Bill Shaw The financial media likes to label precious metal investors as gloom-and-doomers… goldbugs… and doomsday preppers. At least until gold starts heating up – and the...

September 2020

More Than Just a Virus

COVID-19’s Far-Reaching Implications Are Making Our Economy Sick Insight from Our Chief Risk Officer CRO X is the Chief Risk Officer for a large, well-known, “globally systemic” financial institution. That’s regulator speak...

September 2020

Is the Almighty Dollar Sinking?

By Nouriel Roubini The recent sharp depreciation of the U.S. dollar has led to concerns that it may lose its role as the main global reserve currency. After all, in addition to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s aggressive monetary easing – which threatens...

September 2020

The Death of the Republican Party

Democrats only need full control for two years to change the system forever. And they know it. By Buck Sexton The year 2020 has shattered all political predictions. Going into January, President Donald Trump was presiding over a booming economy. He...

September 2020

School’s In! Well, Sort of…

Online Learning Is an Oxymoron By Alice Lloyd Summer’s fading, and fall is creeping in. The first few crisp nights of the season trigger the practically primordial nervous back-to-school feeling… When it dips below 75 on an early September...

August 2020

Can Joe Biden Really Be President?

By Buck Sexton The next two months of partisan warfare will be the ugliest in recent memory… Protests, riots, and looting have been occurring regularly for months. They are likely to get worse as the election gets closer. America’s national...

August 2020

Stress Test of a Straining Superpower

By Pat Buchanan How great a burden can even an unrivaled superpower carry before it buckles and breaks? We may be about to find out. Rome was the superpower of its time, ruling for centuries almost the entirety of what was then called the civilized...

August 2020

School Choice Is the Only Option

By John B. Taylor After years of rumblings for change in U.S. education, the COVID-19 pandemic is becoming a catalyst for improving the system. America’s educational divide – especially in grades K-12 (elementary through high school) – is now...

August 2020

The Private Space Race

By John Stossel A few weeks ago, American astronauts returned to earth. Their trip to the space station was the first manned launch from the U.S. in 10 years. By NASA? No. Of course, not. This space flight happened because the government was not in...

August 2020

The Debt Jubilee Is Going Global

By Kim Iskyan The coming worldwide debt crisis will render to rubble the very foundations of the global economy. It’s not a question of if… It’s a question of when. In the U.S., we can see exactly what’s happening by looking at the balance...

August 2020

The Great American Meritocracy at Risk

We are currently on a path to ending up like Venezuela in two decades’ time. By Trish Regan My TV makeup was melting in the Venezuelan summer heat… That’s not an easy feat. This particular makeup is what I like to call “industrial strength.”...

August 2020

The Death of Airlines

By Bill McGilton Buffett is currently seventh on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index – a daily ranking of the world’s richest people. The index lists his net worth at roughly $73 billion… and he earned it all through investing. The “Oracle of...

August 2020

Real Estate In COVID-19 Times

Turning Crisis Into Opportunity By Kendra Todd Over the past 17 years, I’ve had some profound professional experiences I could have never imagined… After duking it out against wildly talented entrepreneurs and hearing the words You’re Hired...

August 2020

The Melt Up Is Back

Why now is the safe time to get back in By Dr. Steve Sjuggerud When do you get back into stocks? In 1996, Porter Stansberry and I set out to answer this question. Back then, we were just hungry kids in our mid-twenties. The company we started...

July 2020

Why Mass Movements Make a Mess

Eric Hoffer, the Dockyard Philosopher Letter from the Editor: Editor in Chief P.J. O’Rourke Mass movements seem to be massing up these days, with protesters pulling down statues here and rally-goers pulling off face masks there… and demagogues...

July 2020

As the Virus Spreads: Death is in the Air

By Kim Iskyan In the U.S., the COVID-19 virus continues its spread… particularly in California, Arizona, and Florida… But my conversations with contacts around the world – particularly in Brazil and India – show that Americans are...

July 2020

Will the Red States Save the Movies?

By John Podhoretz In the spring, the most successful theatrical release in the United States was a horror movie you’ve probably never heard of. Not only was it No. 1 at the time… The Wretched even matched Black Panther’s record, sitting for...

July 2020

It’s Time to Go Offensive

We have lost this war…  But don’t go home and suck your thumb By Jesse Kelly Picture yourself as a wealthy city leader during the time of Genghis Khan. Your city is incredible… Beautiful buildings, lush gardens, and high walls. Then you...

July 2020

The COVID-19 Mindscrew

By Laura Greaver COVID-19 is one big lesson in cognitive dissonance… Or, to put it bluntly, it’s a huge mindscrew. There’s no other apt way to capture how this virus has messed with my head. At the height of the lockdown, I was anxious about...

July 2020

After the COVID War, the Debt Bomb

By Todd G. Buchholz The word “war” must be worn-out by now. After two harrowing World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam, presidents have also called on Americans to fight metaphoric wars on poverty, crime, drugs, and terrorism… not to mention actual...

July 2020

The Main Street Manifesto

By Nouriel Roubini The mass protests following the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer are about systemic racism and police brutality in the United States, but also so much more. Those who have taken to the streets in more than...

July 2020

Where Does it End

A modest proposal to achieve a “historically correct” America By Kerry D. Moynihan There is a difference between right and wrong. It is important to know the difference between right and wrong. And without a doubt, enslaving people is wrong. We...

July 2020

The Establishment Strikes Back

By Buck Sexton If you turn on the TV or open up your newspaper, you’ll find practically nothing about the fiercely contested presidential race just five months away. At least at first glance… The stories appear to be focused on an array of...

June 2020

A Deadly Wave That Cannot Be Stopped

By Mike DiBiase It’s far too early to think we’ve made it through the worst of the coronavirus pandemic… and the resulting economic disaster. Edie Fassnidge will never forget the picture-perfect scene along the Thai coast… In late 2004...

June 2020

The Millennial Investor

A Generation’s Crisis-Conditioned Approach By Alice Lloyd “Is it safe to come out now?” is the question of the year. It’s top of mind whether your pandemic panic has been predominantly financial, psychological, medical, or social in nature. In a...

June 2020

Behold the Magic Money Tree

As the government embraces MMT, investors and voters had better understand it. By Alan Gula Imagine running a hedge fund and never booking a loss… That’s exactly what Warren Mosler did for 15 years. In 1982, Mosler co-founded the investment...

June 2020

A Different Presidential Candidate

By John Stossel We have a choice! In the next presidential election, we don’t have to decide between two big-spending candidates, neither of whom has expressed much interest in limited government. Now, we have a third serious choice… Dr. Jo...

June 2020

The Knee on All Our Necks

By Bill Bonner We read the news. We are appalled. Last week we saw that, soon, it may not be only Blacks who want to set fire to police stations. Since the bottom of the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the 20% of the population at the bottom of the heap...

June 2020

Killing Time, Part II

   Boredom continues at the O’Rourke home    By P.J. O’Rourke Three months into the coronavirus pandemic and everything is beginning to return to… the new abnormal. (Note for language geeks: “Pan” was the name of a Greek god who...

June 2020

How America Wins the Post-Pandemic World

By Kim Iskyan As the winners and losers of the post-pandemic world shake out, America is having a terrible crisis. It’s difficult to get past 100,000 (and counting) dead Americans from COVID-19, and the sharpest economic contraction since the Great...

June 2020

What President Trump Promised Me Personally

By Buck Sexton Last month, I walked into the most famous room of the most powerful government in the world to share my opinion and advice with its commander in chief. President Donald Trump had asked for me by name to his staff, and they reached out...

May 2020

Uphill Battle

Starting America’s Long Hard Path Back to Normal By Buck Sexton Forever lockdown has lost… at least for now. Voices that have been advocating for extending the most extreme virus-mitigation policies have not been able to prevent several major...

May 2020

Temporarily (Constantly) Out of Stock

Why your local store keeps running out of flour, toilet paper, and prescription drugs By Nada R. Sanders Retailers are frequently running out of everything from flour and fresh meat to toilet paper and pharmaceuticals as supply chains hammered by...

May 2020

Mr Mom

By P.J. O’Rourke As any feminist will tell you, it’s an old joke that men remain useless when it comes to housework, childcare, and daily meal preparation. Like most old jokes, it’s not funny. I know because I am that old joke. My wife was...

May 2020

A Step Back from Crisis

By Dr. David Eifrig Forget Warren Buffett and George Soros for a minute… Instead, think about a different investor – a young woman named Alexandra Bergson. She arrived in the Nebraska plains with her brothers around the turn of the 20th...

May 2020

Far More Lethal than Coronavirus

By Dr. Ron Paul The Federal Reserve recently announced it will keep interest rates at or near zero until the economy recovers from the government-imposed shutdown. Following this announcement, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell urged Congress...

May 2020

A Clear Path to Societal Death

By Dan Ferris The largest meat processor in the U.S. sounded the alarm last month… “The food supply chain is breaking,” warned John Tyson, chairman and CEO of Tyson Foods (TSN), in an open letter. Tyson spread his message through full-page ads...

May 2020

Buying and Selling 100 Million Face Masks

By Kim Iskyan James Steinberg is chin-deep in what’s now the world’s hottest business. A looming global economic depression, nosebleed levels of unemployment, and the world under lockdown don’t matter. James isn’t a divorce lawyer (for all those...

May 2020

The Wild West of Wall Street

By Joel Litman In 1880, nearly half of the territory of the United States of America was an ungoverned free-for-all. You could make it rich. You could lose the shirt off your back. You could die trying. Nine out of 10 Americans lived either east of...

May 2020

Silver Linings

Finding small joys in these long days By Laura Greaver I haven’t used my alarm clock in eight weeks… It used to sound religiously at 6 a.m. every weekday, the shrill iPhone ring startling me out of sleep. Mornings were a whirlwind of packing...

May 2020

What Will Be the New American Cause?

By Pat Buchanan After the Great Pandemic has passed and we emerge from Great Depression II, what will be America’s mission in the world? What will be America’s cause? We have been at such a turning point before. After World War II, Americans wanted...

May 2020

Our Upside-Down Coronavirus World

By Steven Longenecker The upside-down, “mirror world” we’ve been warning about is here… Across the nation, jails and prisons are releasing tens of thousands of hardened criminals to the streets. From a face-tattooed fellow in Florida...

April 2020

The ‘Big Lie’ Behind COVID-19

By Porter Stansberry Recently, an old friend said, “Porter, I’m almost afraid to ask… but what do you think about all of this madness, about the government telling everyone they have to sit in their houses? How long do you think this can go on...

April 2020

A Questionable Pandemic

P.J. Has just as many questions as a kid in quarantine homeschool Letter from the Editor: Editor in Chief P.J. O’Rourke There’s only one story in the news, and I’m not going to report on it… Like most journalists, I was the kind of liberal...

April 2020

The Great Cessation

How Does Capitalism End? By Todd G. Buchholz Socialism is looking less ugly these days. It used to conjure up images of bushy Karl Marx with spittle in his beard, or a hairless Nikita Khrushchev locking a monkey in a satellite, promising “we will...

April 2020

COVID-19 Debunked

The Real Danger Is Misinformation By Dr. David Eifrig One of the biggest killers during any health crisis is a lack of clear communication. Nothing puts that into clearer perspective more than Walter’s story (name changed for privacy). Walter...

April 2020

Coronavirus is the New Innovator

The COVID-19 Portfolio: Who Profits From Our New Pandemic World? By C. Scott Garliss Our lives have been changed dramatically by the COVID-19 pandemic… Experts predict it will take another 12 to 18 months before a viable treatment will be...

April 2020

How Low Can Oil Go?

Much Lower Than You Think… By Bill Shaw For the past month, most of the world has been hunkered down inside their homes in response to the deadly COVID-19. Folks are glued to their televisions as they wait to hear news signaling a slow return...

April 2020

Coronavirus Even Closed The Waffle House

By Salena Zito It is early Sunday morning along one of the few congested stretches of the Lincoln Highway when an empty parking lot below the familiar cheery yellow sign for the local Waffle House catches the eye. The 24-hour diner chain, born in...

April 2020

The New Normal

How the Coronavirus Has Changed Life As We Know It By Laura Greaver We’ve all seen the coronavirus maps… The red circles spread like pools of blood on butcher’s paper. COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to rise. Bodies overflow morgues. And...

April 2020

The Two Pandemics

By Robert J. Shiller We are feeling the anxiety effects of not one pandemic, but two. First, there is the COVID-19 pandemic, which makes us anxious because we, or people we love, anywhere in the world, might soon become gravely ill and even die...

April 2020

The Red Tape Pandemic

By John Stossel Coronavirus is frightening. I’m working from home, practicing “social distancing.” Experts say it’ll help “flatten the curve” so fewer people will be infected simultaneously. Then hospitals won’t be overwhelmed. But the infection...

April 2020

Is Now the Time to Invest in Cannabis?

By Tom Carroll Given the current coronavirus panic, global markets have sold off significantly. Daily trading is extremely volatile… The S&P 500 Index might be down 8% one day, only to rise 7% the next day. We’ve witnessed this cycle a few...

April 2020

Killing Time

Boredom at the O’Rourke home By P.J. O’Rourke Oops… My title for this essay came out looking a little more ominous than I intended. Sorry. But you know what I mean. The mortality rate of COVID-19 is no laughing matter, but after a...

April 2020

A World Without Sports

By Lars Dzikus Baseball’s opening day came and went. The Olympics have been postponed. Football in the fall? Don’t count on it. With COVID-19 infections and deaths rising each day, the cancellation of live sporting events might seem like an...

March 2020

Old Enough To Know Better

No Matter Which Way You Flip It, We’re All Ending Up With An Old White Dude Letter from the Editor: Editor in Chief P.J. O’Rourke When the Super Tuesday primary polls opened on the morning of March 3, the race for the Democratic presidential...

March 2020

All the Things That Can Go Wrong

There Are No Black Swans… Just White Swans Flying to Dark Places By Nouriel Roubini In my 2010 book Crisis Economics, I defined financial crises not as the “black swan” events that Nassim Nicholas Taleb described in his eponymous bestseller...

March 2020

Down For the Count!

 The Census Is a Bare-Knuckle Political Brawl – and Always Has Been By Walter Reynolds Farley The 2020 Census hasn’t even started – but it has already kicked off spirited fights. A Supreme Court case, decided last year, blocked a Trump...

March 2020

Trading and the $100 Challenge

A Conversation With Mark Minervini Champion stock trader and author By Dan Ferris Mark Minervini is one of the world’s most successful stock traders and an international performance coach. He won the U.S. Investing Championship in 1997 with a 155%...

March 2020

Central Banking Is Socialism

By Dr. Ron Paul Earlier this month, the Federal Reserve responded to Wall Street’s coronavirus panic with an “emergency” interest rate cut. This emergency cut failed to revive the stock market, so the Fed cut rates again – driving interest rates to...

March 2020

While You Were Washing Your Hands

There’s a Nasty Oil Price Spill That’s Spreading Faster Than Covid-19 By Kim Iskyan “It’s like magic,” my Armenian friend Tigran said to me from Yerevan yesterday morning. “We look where they want us to look.” Like many people from the...

March 2020

From Trailer Parks to Trading Billions

  Enrique Abeyta’s Path to Wall Street and Beyond  By Laura Greaver With his tanned skin covered in tattoos, dark beard reminiscent of a pirate, and casual uniform of a black T-shirt and black jeans, Enrique Abeyta isn’t your typical finance...

March 2020

1970s Era Wave of Inflation Coming

By Kenneth Rogoff It is too soon to predict the long-run arc of the coronavirus outbreak. But it is not too soon to recognize that the next global recession could be around the corner – and that it may look a lot different from those that began in...

March 2020

Coronavirus Care Kit

By Dr. David Eifrig Coronavirus just killed commonsense. I sat, open-mouthed, as I watched in disbelief. A Georgia resident and retiree, Clay Bentley, said he went to the hospital after feeling sick. The only thing they asked was if he’d been out of...

March 2020

Free Market Wokeness

Kill Free Speech and Free Markets Die… By Erick Erickson Writing recently in the Wall Street Journal, Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute declared that free-marketeers have taken social conservatives for granted. “The free...