Are All The Economic Gains Going To The Top 1 Percent?
Are All The Economic Gains Going To The Top 1 Percent? by Scott Winship, Inside Sources Some on the political left have used analyses by French economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez to argue that the “top 1 percent” have…
It’s not just for banks: The coming blockchain revolution is going to have dramatic ramifications for all of us
The Internet and smartphone have transformed our lives already, but the earth beneath our feet is beginning to shift due to the next big thing. It’s called blockchain technology, a clunky name for the underlying technology behind bitcoin. How blockchain,…
Harvesting Terawatts of Solar Power on the Moon
C O N T E N T S: KEY TOPICS Entire generations are born and live their lives in spinning cylinders, bubbles, and torus shaped habitats, harvesting, mining, and fabricating all they need from the environment of the outer solar…
JPMorgan: Volatility Is “Probably Here To Stay”
This new environment presents challenges and opportunities JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says he sees a new trend developing in financial markets: a shift toward higher volatility and lower liquidity. He says these challenges are “probably here to stay” in his…
Intel Testing Blockchain On Massive Scale
Intel is best known as the world’s biggest chip maker, but with falling PC sales forcing the company to lay off 11 percent of its global workforce, the company needs to find new revenue streams, and one of the areas…
Nebraska just abolished civil forfeiture, now requires a criminal conviction to take property
From Freedom’s Phoenix The bill, LB 1106, passed the unicameral legislature last week by a vote of 38 to 8. Civil forfeiture has ensnared a wide swath of victims in Nebraska. A Peruvian pastor once had $14,000 seized during a…
Why Haven’t Bankers Been Punished? Just Read These Insider SEC Emails
This story was co-published with The New Yorker. It is not subject to our Creative Commons license. In the late summer of 2009, lawyers at the Securities and Exchange Commission were preparing to bring charges in what they expected would…
The decline of America’s freedom: Going the way of the T-Rex
HONOLULU, April 21, 2016 – Everybody loves dinosaurs. In natural history museums the world over, people of all ages gladly pay to stand beneath hulking reconstructions of dinosaur skeletons and listen to curators tell of beastly titans and worlds lost…
‘Follow My Vote’ Launches Kickstarter Campaign for Revolutionizing Open-source Blockchain Voting Software
Press Release: Follow My Vote has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for the development of a verifiable open-source blockchain voting software, making voting honest and convenient, once and for all. 21 April 2016, Blacksburg, VA – Follow My…
The Unprecedented Real Estate Bubble In China
The Unprecedented Real Estate Bubble In China by Gary D. Halbert FORECASTS & TRENDS E-LETTER by Gary D. Halbert April 19, 2016 IN THIS ISSUE: 1. China Posts Slowest Economic Growth in Seven Years 2. China’s Dangerous & Growing Real…