There’s a problem with demanding higher wages at the proverbial point of a gun. It generally backfires because companies push those increased costs back onto consumers… the very people fighting for more money. There’s another outcome of this blind push for higher wages…
The problem with Davos isn’t so much its agenda. Like any set of policies, there are some good, some bad, and some ugly. The problem is the messenger. No one trusts the governing class. And can you blame them?
High on the list of controversial issues that presidential hopefuls are debating as electioneering gathers steam is… surprise! The unconscionable, uncontrolled, unmanageable debt our elected government has managed to accrue. Recently, our friend Bill Bonner penned a piece that considers the two options this great nation of ours has to extricate itself from the debt swamp that the reckless, incompetent ruling elite have sunk us into.
It might not sound like much, but it was worse than expected. Now, it’s not all that certain the Fed’s rate hikes have inflation under control after all. There is someone who can, though…
After all the drama, the SEC finally approved new Bitcoin ETFs. Does that mean you should rush out to add some of them to your portfolio? Not so fast.
My pants and Lululemon were on my mind recently when I read the company founder Chip Wilson’s response to its “diversity and inclusion thing,” in his words.
In the not-too-distant future, they may give a war on the Korean peninsula and nobody will come. But it won’t be because the Koreans suddenly embrace pacifism.
You know our ethos here, at The Freeport Society: We advocate for life, liberty, and the pursuit of wealth. Unfortunately, our single greatest impediment to the latter is, you guessed it – taxes. We must share our gains with Uncle Sam.
That’s why there’s one tax day I pay particular attention to…
New Year. Same problems. A big one on many minds as we steamroll our way into the November Presidential Elections?
You don’t have to blessed (cursed?) with the gift of prophecy to know that 2024 will be a chaotic election year. But what other opportunities do we see in the year ahead?
