June 2024

When the going gets tough… the tough get rough. This is how we helped readers survive the chaos this week.

Citing pressure from our 435 apparently impoverished congressional representatives, the House Appropriations Committee voted on Thursday on whether or not to raise the annual salaries of House representatives. They voted no… but the question is, do they deserve it…?

We like to pretend that our leaders know what they’re doing. Our fates and livelihoods are in their hands, for crying out loud. But experience has made it abundantly clear that they don’t. They really are just putting on a good show, flying by the seat of their pants and hoping the rest of us don’t catch on. So how do we grow our wealth under these conditions?

It turns out that the era of small government that was celebrated in the 1980s and ’90s was mostly a myth… a catchy campaign slogan designed to get votes and not much more. Now the two geriatric clowns running for president this year offer only slightly different doses of the same bad-policy heroin we’ve become addicted to. 

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

OpenAI whistleblowers are terrified. But should they be? Should WE be? Let’s find out…

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicks off on Monday, and this year the stakes are high. Apple’s AI revolution might finally be here.

Today, Freeport Society friend, Luke Lango, has an important message for investors like us who look for profitable investment opportunities in technology.

There will be no winners come November 5. Whoever gets the 270 electoral votes, all 330 million of us will be losers… as will be our unborn children and grandchildren. So how can you invest in this environment. Here are two recommendations…

North Korea gave our politicians a run for their tantrum-throwing money this week. But the Massachusetts Senate decided no-one was going to one-up them.