Sovereign Man

In a 2022 interview, then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg discussed how we was going to spend $1.2 trillion of taxpayer money from the recently passed infrastructure bill. “The main thing I’m thinking about,” he said, “is how do we make sure we take all this money— you know it’s $1.2 trillion—... Read more

Yesterday, Nvidia—the company which makes GPUs, including for AI— suffered the largest single-day market value loss in history. The stock dropped 17.4% wiping $600 billion from its valuation in hours, and actually pulling the entire Nasdaq Composite down 3.4%. To put that in perspective, this amount of value loss is... Read more

It was known as the “Timber Famine” in 18th-century Great Britain. And it was no exaggeration to say that it was a national crisis: Britain was running out of wood. The first major reason was population growth; wood was the major material and fuel source of the era, used for... Read more

The Wall Street Journal this morning released its latest economic forecast survey. This is where they ask leading economists what they think inflation and economic growth will be in 2025 and beyond. The results were pretty incredible. Between the last survey, in October before the election, and this month’s survey,... Read more

Herbert Hoover was an unstoppable force in 1928. The Roaring Twenties were in full swing. Prosperity (it seemed) was everywhere. The stock market was soaring. People were making money hand over fist. And Hoover was the ‘status quo’ Presidential candidate that year. In other words, a vote for Hoover was... Read more

When the Founding Fathers put the finishing touches on the Constitution in late September of 1787, they probably had no idea whether or not it would be formally adopted by the states. There had been intense debate. Criticism. Dissent. And so the ratification of the Constitution was by no means... Read more

It’s hilarious how Joe Biden spent his entire four year administration using tech companies to suppress dissent and censor critics. He now claims those same tech companies are a threat to democracy. He just awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to billionaire George Soros, who notoriously uses his money to... Read more

Bank of America released its quarterly earnings report this morning, bright and early at 6:45am. And according to their newest financial statements, the bank is currently sitting on a whopping $112 BILLION in net unrealized bond losses. To say this is atrocious would be a massive understatement. Yet Bank of... Read more

In 1913, 24-year-old Charlie Chaplin arrived in Los Angeles, drawn by an offer from Keystone Film Company. Coming from a poverty-stricken childhood in London and a successful vaudeville career, Chaplin found in Los Angeles a place of limitless potential. The city was largely undeveloped, surrounded by orange groves, open fields... Read more

The summer of 64 AD was a hot one in ancient Rome, and the evening of July 18th was especially warm. The air was dry, and harsh winds blew fiercely throughout the city. So, when a fire broke out that night in the Cirus Maximus district, weather conditions were perfect... Read more

In the calendar year of 2024, the government racked up a $1.74 trillion deficit. But the national debt actually increased by an even higher $2.23 trillion from January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024. That’s a lot of money spent for a Congress that never even passed a budget! The... Read more

In the year 500 AD, just a few decades after the fall of Western roman empire, the standard of living for a typical European peasant was pretty grim. Squalid hobbles. No sanitation. Short life expectancy. Even food was by no means guaranteed. If you go forward in time, even 1,000... Read more