Well, you can add the name of Bill Harris to the bitcoin community’s enemies list a la Richard Nixon. The founder of Personal Capital Corp and former CEO of PayPal and Intuit wrote an op-ed in Recode, where he slammed the peer-to-peer decentralized virtual currency. He noted that he got tired of saying it’s speculative, […]
Archives for April 2018
WATCH: Jordan Peterson talks Trump supporters with Bill Maher
Jordan Peterson is everywhere right now. He is probably the hottest intellectual on the entire planet. And why not? It’s about time we heard some common sense from an intellectual. Recently, Peterson appeared on Bill Maher’s HBO show “Real Time,” and he was the only interesting person on the panel. Maher and his guests went […]
Finland scraps basic income program, Ontario moves ahead with pilot project
It is inevitable that the world will move closer and closer to a universal basic income. It’s only a matter of when. Because of unfounded fears of automation, socialists griping about capitalism, and the public getting whinier, most governments will eventually institute a basic income without any strings attached. You will get paid just for […]
SAD: Rand Paul will vote to confirm war hawk Mike Pompeo
Despite initially opposing President Donald Trump’s pick to be the next Secretary of State, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has confirmed that he will support Mike Pompeo. This is completely different from the grilling he gave Pompeo last week. Here is what the senator is tweeting: After calling continuously for weeks for Director Pompeo to support […]
Cheap debt is still bailing out automakers – how long will it last?
By: Ryan McMaken This week, the Commerce Department reported that consumer spending was heading upward, thanks in part to the strongest sales in six months for automobiles. For the automobile industry, that’s reassuring, but the larger trend points to a period of stagnation. In recent years, there’s been much speculation over whether or not Americans […]