Your Survival Guy, on the heels of a three-week trip to Rome and Paris, can tell you the core of both cities are alive and well. I like the future survivability of American cities where they’re places for people to live and connect not just vacant canyons of office buildings. From The WSJ: While office […]
A Memorial Day Message
Thinking bigger and better. The following is adapted from the commencement address by Adm. William H. McRaven, ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, at the University of Texas at Austin on May 17. … So, here are lessons I learned from basic SEAL training that hopefully will be of value to you as you […]
Gold Prices Surge
UPDATE 5.24.23: Since writing this post nearly ten years ago, gold prices have climbed from $1,325.71 per ounce to $1,975.12 per ounce. Originally posted September 20, 2013. Gold prices have surged by over $90/troy oz. following the Fed’s decision not to taper its bond buying program and the likelihood that inflation dove Janet Yellen will […]
Swiss Francs, a Store of Value
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How to Further Impoverish Already Poor People
Who Is the Guinea Pig Hitting the Green Energy Wall? Despite abundant natural resources, beautiful scenery and nice weather, South Africa, by most measures, is a failed state. SA is also one of the wealthiest countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa. But as Francis Manton points out, that’s not saying much. The World Bank gives its […]
An 80% Decline in Value in Just 4-Years
You know why. The writing’s been on the wall for years. You and I think about this stuff all the time. The blue blob cities are a wreck. What a shame this is what San Francisco has turned into. The WSJ reports: Before the pandemic, San Francisco’s California Street was home to some of the […]
EV Sticker Shock
Beware: EVs considerably short of the range number on the window sticker. In a new paper published by SAE International, it uses Car and Driver’s real-world highway test data to show that electric vehicles underperform on… efficiency and range relative to the EPA figures by a much greater margin than internal-combustion vehicles. While the latter […]
America’s Media are by Definition “Anti-Trust”
Dov Fischer of The American Spectator writes (abridged): What are the odds that Fox would oust Tucker Carlson and CNN would oust Don Lemon within one hour of each other? That should set off an antitrust investigation. But of course they do not ignite antitrust concerns — because America’s media are by definition “anti-trust” — […]
RFK, Jr. is a Blessing for the Country
Karen Kwiatkowski of LewRockwell.com tells us how RFK, Jr.’s entry into the race is a blessing for the country. She writes (abridged): I was elated to find out that Joe Biden is all about my freedom, and while he didn’t have a lot of luck increasing freedom in his first three years, I’m sure that […]
An Endless War against Merit
Socialism – Dependent on Orwellian Police State Socialism, according to one definition, is the “set of beliefs that states that all people are equal and should share equally in a country’s money, or the political systems based on these beliefs.” That seems pretty much sums up the operative ideology of the new Democratic Party, the […]
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