by Michael We haven’t seen anything like this in decades. Energy prices are soaring to unprecedented heights. Food shortages in some parts of the world are starting to become quite severe. Rampant inflation is out of control all over the globe. Meanwhile, economic activity is slowing down everywhere that you look. Some are comparing this…
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by Michael Will this be a summer of widespread politically-motivated violence in the United States? The Supreme Court decision that finally overturns Roe v. Wade is expected to be released this month, and authorities are fearing the worst. In fact, the Department of Homeland Security just issued an advisory warning specifically of “mass casualty violence”…
New analysis has identified the suburbs where the number of active buyers has dipped alongside an uptick in new listings, offering potential bargains for those keen to purchase. A market correction is underway in parts of Australia, with demand beginning to ease and supply increasing, leading to a cooling off prices following the historic COVID…
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By Michael Lebowitz Consumers are being squeezed by negative real wage growth and inflation at 40-year highs. As a result, consumer sentiment is declining, and personal consumption habits are changing as people struggle to help make ends meet. With GDP running at -1.5% in the first quarter, a second consecutive quarter of negative growth will…
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The tech news channels were recently abuzz with stories about strange signals coming back from Voyager 1. While the usual suspects jumped to the usual conclusions – aliens !! – in the absence of a firm explanation for the anomaly, some of us looked at this event as an opportunity to marvel at the fact…
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Cheaper property prices, bigger homes, and a quieter way of life are enticing Millennials away from the big smoke to smaller settings. Months after the height of COVID-19, when regional migration more than doubled, the attraction of rural, semi-rural, and outer suburban areas for young families remains high, economists and real estate agents say. Interstate…
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Generally when we consider the many plants around us, we imagine them efficiently using the electromagnetic radiation from the Sun via photosynthesis in their leaves – pulling carbon-dioxide from the air, as well as water from the soil via their roots, and grow as quickly. as they reasonably can. In reality, the efficiency of this…
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Recently, I stumbled upon a cool write-up by [DHowett], about reprogramming a Framework laptop’s Embedded Controller (EC). He shows us how to reuse the Caps Lock LED, instead making it indicate the F1-F12 key layer state – also known as “Fn lock”, AKA, “Does your F1 key currently work as F1, or does it regulate…
Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, Americans have limitless faith in democracy. In the early 19th century, that charmed Alexis de Tocqueville. His book Democracy in America still rings true today because not much has changed. The entire country can be in ruins and even then, most people figure that it will all…
by Michael I hope you are enjoying these beautiful summer weekends while you still can, because it appears that very troubled times are dead ahead. Simultaneously, inflation continues to spiral out of control even as economic activity in the US dramatically slows down. Many have compared what we are currently experiencing to the “stagflation” of…
