By: Stephan Aarstol The 9-to-5 grind has created a cult of workaholics. Unfortunately, the 8-hour workday hasn’t budged in 100 years. Never mind that the Information Age represents the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution and that family structures have changed dramatically since the early 1900s. Workers still get in their cars every morning and […]
Archives for July 2016
$15 minimum wage causes Sacramento bookstore to shut down
A local bookstore in Sacramento is shutting down. It isn’t closing its doors because people aren’t reading anymore or they’re strictly shopping on Amazon. Instead, it’s because of California’s new $15 minimum wage law. That’s right. For those who don’t think the minimum wage shuts down businesses and cuts jobs then here is another real-world […]
Crazy Anthony Weiner on Donald Trump donation (video)
Former New York Democratic Congressman and mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner (AKA Carlos Danger), who liked sharing naked photos of himself with women, is at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) to support his wife’s boss, Hillary Clinton. During his attendance, he was interviewed by Fox Business Network (FBN) to ask him about a donation he received […]
Marc Faber says gold should be 25% of portfolios to shield you from central banks
How much of your investment portfolio is in gold? Five percent? Ten percent? One contrarian investor believes that the yellow metal should control one-quarter of your portfolio. Speaking at a recent conference in Chicago, Marc Faber, the editor of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, encouraged investment professionals to have 25 percent of their portfolio […]
Media Collusion & Rewarding Big Donors: 5 of the biggest findings from DNC emails leak
Do you still think the system isn’t rigged? If the “Hillary Leaks” proves anything, it’s that politics is phony, though if you’re a staunch news junkie then you may have already realized this. The mainstream media is fake. Democrats portraying themselves as virtuous is fake. A lot of the push back against Bernie Sanders from […]