Any investor trying to play a Trump agenda investment strategy is setting themselves up for trouble. The hard reality is that no one really knows what parts of Trump’s campaign policy will actually get accomplished. Since being elected, he has already dialed back much of his tough campaign talk, and other items on the agenda Read more about Donald Trump and the Foreign Policy Dice Game[…]
The terminators from Skynet, the agents of the Matrix, the Decepticons…Hollywood has done a good job portraying artificial intelligence (AI) as an existential threat to the human race. The scary thing is that this idea may not be purely science fiction. In fact, many leading technologists today seem to share the concern that at some Read more about Will Artificial Intelligence End the Human World?[…]
Bernie Sanders has run an impressive campaign which has gotten him more traction than anyone could have predicted even just a few months ago. He has run on a platform of fighting for the common people and reducing inequality. One of his action items to that end is to break up the big banks. Here Read more about Bernie the Big Bank Buster![…]
Self-Immolation. That’s the term used to describe the grisly act of dousing oneself in accelerant and lighting a match. Many people hear the news about Egypt’s uprising and now Libya’s civil war (more like civil skirmish) but few really know that the spark that ignited the protests, which are toppling long-standing dictator regimes, was lit by Read more about How One Man Ignited the Protests in the Middle East, by Igniting Himself[…]
Are we heading for a massive global energy crisis? Are we running out of oil? Will energy prices skyrocket? Will lines at the gas station be 5-miles long again? Will we need to start drilling into places like ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) and coastal waters just to sustain our way of life? Sadly, the answer to all of Read more about Peak-Oil and Mad Max[…]