Cuba was already in dire straits. Oil is the finishing touch. Cuba’s Economy Collapses Trump’s de facto declaration of war on Venezuela (a naval blockade is undoubtedly war) has taken a toll on two economies, Venezuela and and Cuba. The Wall Street journal accurately notes Communist-ruled Cuba was already suffering […]
The Central American country’s economy is projected to grow 4% this year, the IMF said. What to know: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) praised El Salvador’s stronger-than-expected economic growth in a statement on Monday. The update notably did not include previous IMF suggestions that El Salvador would be putting on hold […]
Call it the billionaire tech-bro’s dilemma. You can only buy so many mansions, jets and yachts, so what’s next? Apparently, building your own city. Venture capitalists want to build their own tech utopias, and have been cutting deals with governments, mainly in lesser economically developed countries, to start building luxury towers […]
The psychological scars of war can sometimes last forever. People are being harmed in a silent war that most don’t know is happening, by unseen forces. The definition of war is being rewritten as the methods of warfare evolve. War symptoms are already being felt by many people, as widespread […]
Among the many incredible revelations over the past five years is the extent of the power of the pharmaceutical companies. Through advertising, they have been able to shape media content. That in turn has affected digital content companies, which responded from 2020 onward by taking down posts that questioned the […]
The silver price has doubled over the last 2 months. Demand for physical silver continues to grow while capital is also flowing into the silver paper market, and starting to leak into the minors. The money is coming from still overbought US equities. Yet, charts from October could have predicted […]
Hundreds of millions of people all over the western world are enjoying the holiday season as if nothing has changed. But meanwhile the pounding of the war drums just continues to intensify. If the world keeps going down this path, next year’s holiday season could look completely different. Unfortunately, most […]
In late 2025, Mark Karpelès, ex CEO of Mt. Gox, lives a quieter life in Japan, building a VPN and an AI automation platform. As Chief Protocol Officer at vp.net—a VPN that uses Intel’s SGX technology to let users verify exactly what code runs on servers—he works alongside Roger Ver […]
If the right to free speech does not include the right to oppose an active genocide using strong and unmitigated language, then there is no freedom of speech. Reading by Tim Foley: If the right to free speech does not include the right to oppose an active genocide using strong […]
Will 2026 be a year of great shaking for the United States? Coming into 2025, I thought that seismic activity would be a major global theme, and that has certainly turned out to be the case. This has been an extremely unusual year for earthquakes along the Pacific Ring of Fire, and […]