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Is This the Summer of the Tick Fest

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Warmer days usually mean more time outdoors. Along with spending more time in the garden come nagging worries about ticks and what to do if you find one on your body. According to Sumathi Reddy in the WSJ, “Get it off pronto.” To infect you with Lyme disease, a tick must bite and attach to your […]

Your Survival Guy’s Take on ChatGPT and AI

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You learned yesterday how Your Survival Guy became Larry the Cable Guy. Life comes at you fast. Buckle up. One second, you’re enjoying a cup of joe with Mom and Dad, and the next, you’re making friends with call center reps far, far away. I thought technology, AI, etc. was supposed to make life easier. […]

CBDCs Not “Just Another Form of Money”

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At the Cato Institute, Norbert Michel and Nicholas Anthony explain that a “CBDC (central bank digital currency) is not ‘just another form of money,’ as some of its supporters have claimed.” No other form of money gives governments the ability to control what you spend your money on, how much you spend, or even to take money […]

Concentrate on Dividend Record and Compounding

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UPDATE 6.6.23: Gwynn Guilford is warning readers of The Wall Street Journal to “get ready for the full-employment recession.” She writes: Usually, employment plummets during recessions because as factories, offices and restaurants produce less, they need fewer workers. That clearly isn’t happening. “If you look at the early 2000s, that was what was called a […]

ALLIGATOR MARKET: Calm Surface Hides Danger Below

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The S&P 500 is a market cap-weighted index meaning the largest companies by market cap have the greatest impact on its direction. A handful of companies comprise a third of the index today. I explained this in-depth in my series, The Truth Behind the S&P 500. Caitlin McCabe explains in The Wall Street Journal that […]

The Sham Claims of Lab-Grown “Meat”

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On Mercola.com, Dr. Joseph Mercola takes on the sham claims about lab grown “meat.” He writes: While the fake meat industry is being touted as an environmentally friendly and sustainable way to feed the world, the true intent is to recreate the kind of global control that Monsanto and others achieved through patented GMO seed […]

Tensions Rising in the Taiwan Strait

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  In The Blaze, Joseph Mackinnon reports on the rising tensions between China and the United States in the Taiwan Strait. He writes: Communist China is becoming increasingly brazen with its anti-American military provocations. Over the weekend, a Chinese warship cut in front of the USS Chung-Hoon, an American destroyer, which was conducting a routine […]

Progressive Liberalism Has Dragged America near Ruination

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UPDATE 6.6.23: There has been no elected official over the last two years fighting harder against the progressive “woke” agenda than Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida. He has dubbed the state “where woke goes to die,” and backed up those claims with actions. DeSantis is facing down the toughest opponent any Florida politician can, Disney, […]

Successful Investing Is a Mindset

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  Dick Young wrote in the October 2015 issue of Intelligence Report: As you know, I do not check the prices of my investments daily, weekly, or even monthly. I do an annual checkup only at tax time. When I make a significant investment, I have no intention of liquidation anytime soon. I am in […]

The Nickel Pickle from EVs

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There are no solutions, only tradeoffs … Auto manufacturers and developers of batteries for EVs worried there would be a nickel shortage, especially after the move away from cobalt. Why move away from cobalt? When human rights groups and journalists reported on widespread child labor in cobalt operations and dangerous conditions faced by miners in […]