Tech Can Help Overcome the Pitfalls of Starting a Small Business
By Steven Maxwell For the better part of the last 20 years I’ve chosen small business endeavors over a 9-5 corporate routine. My short time…
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5 Sectors of The U.S. Economy That Are In Decline
By Steven Maxwell As regular readers of this site are probably well aware, it often feels like we are living in parallel worlds when it…
CBD for the Mind: The Many Mental Health Benefits of CBD
By Steven Maxwell CBD. It’s currently a celebrated phenomenon in the US as more and more people are realizing the positive effects of cannabis. You…
Digital Privacy Is A Valuable Commodity In An Era of Surveillance and Censorship
By Steven Maxwell The modern tools of connectivity, innovation, research, and freedom of expression offered to us in the digital age have been turned against…
Capping Interest Rates On Credit Cards Will Lead To Kneecapping
Capping credit card interest rates could lead to worse outcomes for risky borrowers. By Steven Maxwell At first glance credit cards with high interest rates…
The Future of Education is Borderless
By Steven Maxwell The entire formal education apparatus seems to reinforce the repetition of learning from past generations rather than forging new ideas and new…
The New Cash? Why Governments Don’t Like Cryptocurrency
By Steven Maxwell Cash is a problem for banks and governments. And, as we know, banks and governments are joined at the hip – each…
Colleges Can Kill Creativity By Offering One-Size-Fits-All Education
By Steven Maxwell With student debt at record levels (and a more aggressive approach to collecting those loans), combined with a diminishing guarantee of employment…
Vermont Lawmakers Vote To Legalize Recreational Marijuana
By Steven Maxwell Yesterday the Vermont State House voted 79-66 to legalize recreational marijuana starting next year. The law, Senate Bill 22, removes penalties for…
Government Is Still Recording Your Every Move Under Trump
By Steven Maxwell As soon as Trump became the President-elect, sales of George Orwell’s book 1984 surged to the top of Amazon Best Sellers where…
Will Silver and Gold Rally in 2017 Under Trump?
By Steven Maxwell Unstable economic conditions and a Trump presidency may cause a rally in precious metals. Trump’s protectionist policies and his support for auditing the…
Australia Down-Scheduling Marijuana: Legalizes Therapeutic Use Nationwide in November
By Steven Maxwell Last week, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), Australia’s version of the FDA, announced formal plans to legalize medical marijuana throughout the country…
Is Kratom Legal in Your State?
By Steven Maxwell We live in a strange reality where ailing humans are being banned from using helpful plants. Although marijuana has been liberated in…
First Poll to Show Majority Support by Republicans for Full Marijuana Legalization
By Steven Maxwell Prohibition of cannabis is over. It may not be legally over yet, but in the minds of men and women, it’s over. A new…