One in ten Americans receives food stamp benefits through SNAP. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins believes there needs to be an overhaul of the program to ensure only those in desperate need receive these benefits. The first step will be requiring recipients to reapply for benefits to ensure that those “taking a taxpayer-funded benefit through SNAP…
A high-stakes crypto trader was wiped out on HyperLiquid before immediately piling back into massive leveraged shorts on GMX — echoing past blow-ups from reckless market punters. What to know: A trader who had funneled hundreds of thousands into Stake and Roobet lost $5.5 million after shorting BTC, XRP, ZEC and others in a $168…
The following article is adapted from the author’s new book The Agrarian Imagination: Development and the Art of the Impossible, which is freely available to read online or download here. At its best, writing bears witness to truths that society may not want to hear or that prevailing realities make almost impossible. One peculiar kind of essay…
Preamble The natural home for this work is a biomedical journal. There is zero chance, however, that a paper would be accepted by any conventional journal. Why? Because the results are earthshaking, as stated in the title. This post is technical, but the preamble is not. For the non-academic reader, the preamble will serve two…
The American education system is a trap. For those who fall into it and are looking for an exit, there are amazing options available for parents to take control of this important situation. Staying inside a broken government indoctrination system that fails on every level to prepare students for life is no longer acceptable. Brett…
On November 9, The New York Times published an update on the situation with Iran’s nuclear program. The article contains some valuable material. But it also gets three important things wrong. The article badly misses the shift in relations in the region. By implying that other countries in the region are more willing to work with the U.S. and…
You may have heard some very alarming things about AI toys, but the truth is far worse than most parents realize. If we can get this information out to enough parents, sales of AI toys will collapse, and that will be a very good thing. A cute little teddy bear that can literally interact with…
Harvard’s endowment has made Bitcoin its largest publicly disclosed investment. Harvard University’s endowment has been quietly and massively increasing its Bitcoin holdings. The university bought more than 6.8 million shares of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) as of September 30. The investment is valued at $442.8 million. This marks a 257% increase from Harvard’s previous holding of…
The climate creed that once ruled unquestioned is cracking as energy needs, geopolitical reality, and basic science force the West to admit carbon isn’t dying anytime soon. For decades, the monolithic and sacrosanct international climate change hierarchy went unquestioned. Western nations in particular spent trillions of dollars over the past half-century to subsidize expensive but…
How to Guarantee Certainty The stock market further traversed its high wire act this week. Tiptoeing along, while trying to not look down. Congress even reopened the government – until January 30. That way members can kick back over the holidays before they return to Washington, where they’ll once again pretend to do real work…
