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This Is What We Should Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving
This segment of What’s Ahead celebrates the hard-won wisdom of the Pilgrims, which enabled them to turn hunger and privation into abundance. The original Plymouth Colony nearly collapsed. Food shortag...
The British Government Is Deliberately Crushing Its Economy
This episode of What’s Ahead looks at Britain’s new budget as both a disaster and a sad example of the ruinous thinking dominating economic and monetary policies. With its economy on the precipice of ...
This Is Mark Zuckerberg’s Greatest Threat — And He’ll Never Win Against It
This segment of What’s Ahead makes the point that free markets, where competition is unimpeded, are far more effective regulators than government antitrust bureaucrats. A prime example is what’s happe...
FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried And The Basic Problem Of Cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrency values have been hit hard. The granddaddy of them all, Bitcoin, now sells for around $16,000, down from a high of $67,000 a year ago. FTX and its charismatic cofounder, Sam Bankman-Frie...
Why Can’t States Like California Count Votes As Quickly As Florida?
Our election system is broken in a number of states, with the results of several critical contests in doubt a week after Election Day because votes haven’t been tabulated. This segment of What’s Ahead...
Key Democratic Goal Could Harm The “Well-Being Of The Rest Of The World”
Democrats want a government-controlled healthcare system like most other countries have. This episode of What’s Ahead points out that not having succeeded through a direct approach, Democrats are now ...
Why Republicans Did Just Fine In 2022 Midterms — And Are Well Positioned For 2024
This segment of What’s Ahead explains that while Republicans didn’t win overwhelmingly, they did do well in the midterms. They performed far better than it looked they would six weeks ago. The GOP too...
I Am A Voter’s Mandana Dayani On The Importance Of Voting In The Midterm Elections
AFP via Getty Images Mandana Dayani thought she had her work cut out for her in 2020, when she, alongside her I am a Voter cofounders and colleagues, tried to convince 100 million eligible voters who ...
What Are Stablecoins? – The Cryptonomist
Cryptocurrencies today are known for their enormous price volatility. Prices can show large price fluctuations in a short time. It regularly happens that the crypto market as a whole falls or rises wi...
Here’s What Republicans Should Do If They Win Congress
Upsets are always possible in this era of constant uncertainty, but it looks like the GOP will take control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives next term. This episode of What’s Ahead ...
Looming Energy Disaster Is On Its Way
Thanks to unseasonably warm weather, increased energy production and some conservation, the U.S. and Europe may get through the winter without serious shortages. But a bout of bad weather would change...
This Is How Jerome Powell Can Prevent A Crushing Recession
After this week’s meeting of the Federal Reserve Board, Chairman Jerome Powell should take a hard look at what’s unfolding in the economy, as well as his own assumptions about monetary policy. This se...
Major League Baseball Must Make A Big Change
In the name of fairness, Major League Baseball must alter the way contesting teams in the World Series are chosen. Like basketball, football and hockey, baseball has a regular season, followed by a se...
This Mistake We’re Making Will Astonish Future Generations
When future generations look back at the last 20 years, they’ll be astonished that so many smart people around the world could have been seduced for so long by one of the most destructive economic ide...
Biden Policy On Iran Is “Morally Repulsive”
With serious U.S. help, protesters in Iran—led by courageous women—have a real chance to bring down the murderous mullahs ruling that unhappy land. Their overthrow would be a huge geopolitical victory...
What is an NFT in crypto and why are they unique?
What people refer to as NFT, or Non-Fungible Token, is a kind of crypto asset that represents something unique, collectible and that cannot be replicated. Thus, NFTs are prestigious for their uniquene...
The Biden Administration’s Latest Assault On The Economy
This segment of What’s Ahead puts the spotlight on a proposed Biden regulation that will seriously disrupt a significant part of today’s economy. More and more people want to work for themselves. Ther...
Steve Forbes Warns Biden’s Saudi Arabia Bashing Is A “Big Mistake”
An angry President Biden has vowed that he will be unveiling measures to punish Saudi Arabia—perhaps OPEC, too—for cutting back oil production. Even worse from the White House’s point of view is the f...
A New Way Of War Is Emerging — Will The Biden Team Wake Up?
The Ukraine conflict is ushering in a new era of how wars are fought. Unfortunately, President Biden’s defense policies aren’t reflecting this dramatically changed reality. This episode of What’s Ahea...
Steve Forbes Rips The Red Tape Stopping Infrastructure
There’s no shortage of attention on infrastructure. Both political parties profess to love it. After all, more infrastructure means spending money—lots of it. And politicians love spending money. So w...
Liz Truss Must Ignore Critics And Implement Flat Tax
The jeers that greeted Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Truss’ minor tax cut proposals glaringly expose the utter lack of enlightenment found in so many of today’s policymakers and commentators. Instead o...
How does Big Eyes Coin compare to ApeCoin, and what…
Even though the cryptocurrency market hasn’t recovered from its bear market lows, the faith of crypto enthusiasts remains undimmed. Although the market has been declining, some investors are hop...
How The U.S. Should Stop The Destructive Rise Of The Dollar
The rapid rise of the dollar against other currencies is causing distress in other countries. Globally traded commodities like oil and various foods are priced in dollars. The costs of essential and b...
Biden’s Iran Policy “Defies Belief” — And It Actually Emboldens Putin
This segment of What’s Ahead delves into why President Biden’s bizarre obsession to cut a new nuclear deal with Iran dangerously damages his foreign policy credibility. For instance, the U.S. has been...
Steve Forbes Warns Jerome Powell To Junk “Highly Destructive” Monetary Policy
It has been holy writ among central banks that the goal of monetary policy should be to achieve a 2% rate of inflation. Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell, for example, says he will fight the current ...
2020 Census Overcounted Democratic States, Undercounted GOP States
Most people think the decennial census is supposed to count everyone residing in the U.S. Think again. After each census, the bureau conducts what is called the Post-Enumeration Survey (PES) to get a ...
Steve Forbes Rips Biden Position On Key Truss Move
In recent years Britain has made ghastly mistakes on energy and the economy; consequently, it has the worst-performing economy among major nations. The Biden Administration seems hell-bent on followin...
Weird, Undemocratic Voting System Is Taking Hold In U.S.
The winners of elections receive more votes than their opponents, right? Not under a novel system that has been adopted in Maine and Alaska and in several cities, including New York, San Francisco and...
Why The Surging Dollar Is Hurting Stocks And More
The dollar is rising against other currencies to levels not seen in decades, hurting other countries and the U.S. This episode of What’s Ahead lays out why the greenback is rocketing and why that’s a ...
What’s next for post-Merge Ethereum? | Industry Analysis| OKX Academy
This is an OKX – Okcoin research partnership. Adam Bloom is a Content Writer, podcaster, and yield farmer based in Los Angeles. Now that Ethereum has completed the Merge, it’s time to get ready for th...
States Are Enacting The Flat Tax — Why Not Washington?
This year five states have enacted a single-rate personal income tax combined with tax cuts. Several other states are considering doing the same thing. They’re setting the stage for making a national ...