International Man: Private equity firms used to be associated with big corporate deals, but now they’re buying up plumbing companies, HVAC businesses, roofers, dental practices, veterinary clinics, car washes, and other small, boring, cash-flowing businesses all over the US. What do you make of this trend? Doug Casey: It’s not a sign of healthy capital allocation. Brokers…
Please note: This post is also on Substack.* * * Oligarchy is a very old system of governance and one we have never really escaped. More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle stated that oligarchy (oligarchia) becomes the governance system “when men of property have government in their hands.” Today, we define “oligarchy” as “government by the few, especially despotic…
Bitcoin dropped by 20% in June, but the monthly chart reveals something far more concerning. Bitcoin fell by 20% to under $60,000 in June, its worst monthly performance since the same month in 2022. If that number alone isn’t enough to worry bulls, the price chart, especially the monthly candlestick, could be. The June candlestick, a charting…
Blue Aventurine stones resonate within the throat and third eye chakra. They help the growth of psychic gifts, aid communication and assist addiction and weight loss.
A Twitter user named Hillary built a 29-slide deck in 2018 titled “Lorde and Jack Antonoff, An Emotionally Broken Journey,” arguing he had an emotional affair with Lorde while producing Melodrama and dating Lena Dunham. Dunham’s new memoir Famesick, out in April, admits the internet’s arguments (PowerPoints included) were convincing enough to make her rethink…
Butter yellow is the color fashion has been building toward all year, and it spent this week collecting receipts on two continents. Photo by Jason Howard / Bauer-Griffin via Getty Images. Bad Bunny turned up at Schiaparelli’s Haute Couture fall show in Paris on Monday in a custom double-breasted wool-and-silk suit in the exact creamy…
Politicians continue insisting that mass migration carries no economic consequences. Anyone who questions the policy is immediately accused of being anti-immigrant. That has always been the tactic. Rather than debate the economics, they attack the person asking the question. Yet reality eventually catches up with political slogans, and now even economists are beginning to quantify…
California Governor Gavin Newsom lashed out at President Trump and the Trump DOJ when asked about the federal investigation into his wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom. Last month, Newsom fumed as he announced the corruption probe had expanded, and he and his wife are now under investigation. Newsom said federal agents have contacted people and organizations…
Former Los Angeles Mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt released a new video on Wednesday, bringing the receipts and evidence that the election was stolen from him. Pratt went over it all: homeless people being paid to vote Democrat, NGOs “hoarding ballots,” hundreds of thousands of dead and out-of-state voters on the voter rolls, fraudulent signature verification…
Steadily lowering my social credit score I sometimes have people ask me, “So what are you doing to help?” Sure, I’m full of radical takes and contrarian views, but how does that change anything? Have I led any marches? Have I even participated in any marches? Run for Congress? Run for school board? But I certainly shoot…
