In 2019, we had known for a cool century that governments are run by incompetent leaders, willing to frivolously demolish the lives of their own people, to protect their own status. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
According to the Brownstone Institute, the U.S. federal government spent $10 trillion on COVID. The government’s own spending tracker website says, however, that the expenditure was a much more modest $4.56 trillion. If you’re curious how this lower amount was distributed, the Associated Press did some research and wrote about its findings: “Fraudsters potentially stole…
In Hollywood scripts, writers can drop plotlines without consequences. For example, in the first two installments of the Rocky film franchise, Rocky’s decade-long boxing career left him with significant damage to his right eye and partial blindness. Any future fights — let alone a bout against the world champion — were portrayed as high risk…
The last four years have been weird, but it’s hard to know if it was out of the ordinary. For example, we’ve witnessed a series of fires around the world at food processing plants and industrial complexes. But because no organization keeps records on these kinds of incidents, we can’t tell if there’s an anti-human…
Personal injury attorneys who abuse the legal system regard lawsuits the way venture capitalists treat startups. Both expect 19 in 20 investments to fail. But among their portfolio of losers, there’s that one successful moonshot. Think of Peter Thiel’s 2004 investment in Facebook of $500,000 that turned into billions. One jackpot not only covers the…
The gym business has never been about keeping the regulars happy, but rather courting the indifferent. The Washington Post summed up the situation nicely in an article about gyms and New Year’s Resolutions: “It might seem like kind of a weird business model – a business that succeeds when its customers don’t set foot in…