Erica Wood – American Consequences

Update

A most unusual gift and a legendary writer

Dear reader, You’ve heard from American Consequences feature contributor Porter Stansberry, editor of the Stansberry Digest, several times… He shared his “Escher Economy” thesis in our inaugural issue… he penned...

American Consequences

Update

Inside This Issue: Innovations and Unnovations

Dear subscriber, Editor in chief P. J. O’Rourke here, letting you know that your next issue of American Consequences is now online. Appropriately enough, our new issue is about what’s new. You can view it by clicking on this link. For...

American Consequences

September 2017

A New Type of Crime Will Cause This Industry To Soar

In recent years, political protests turned violent have plastered the nightly news.

Jeff Brown

September 2017

Discovering Blood Road

In 2003, for the first time in a decade, I thought about my father.

Rebecca Rusch

September 2017

This Technology Is Transitioning America to a ‘Cashless Society’

Cash is dead… In the next five years, nearly everyone will prefer paying with their phone. By Steve Sjuggerud “It’s time to kill the $100 bill,” former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers wrote in the Washington Post a year ago...

Steve Sjuggerud

September 2017

The Innovation That Will Drive the Next Oil Supercycle

Innovation: Oil Supercycle You’ve heard of “fracking”… the cutting-edge technology critical to exploiting the American energy renaissance. But you haven’t heard of the new tech that will drive the next commodity...

Flavious Smith

September 2017

7 Geniuses Look Into the Future

A look back at works of genius (plus a cartoon) that forecast today’s technological, economic, and social innovations… By P.J. O’Rourke How well can people predict innovation? Here’s one way to tell: Pop open a beer, go to...

P. J. O’Rourke

September 2017

Innovation: It’s All In Your Head

What really changes everyday life is more mental than material – things you hold in your mind, not things you hold in your mitts. The most important innovations are ideas...

P. J. O’Rourke

September 2017

‘Unnovations’

When people say “innovation” – especially people in business and investment – they say it with a smile. They say it like they’d say “cold beer,” as if it were always a good idea.

P. J. O’Rourke