Every spring, the US government performs one of its rare acts of radical honesty: the Social Security Board of Trustees publishes an annual report stating, in plain language, exactly when the program…

Late Monday night on a quiet residential street in north Belfast in Northern Ireland, a man pinned his neighbor to the pavement and literally tried to cut off his head with a kitchen knife.

There are things that a free market will never do, and it’s usually for very good reasons. Running fiber-optic cable down a twelve-mile dirt road costs a fortune, and the handful of households…

On April 3, 1973, a Motorola engineer named Martin Cooper stood on a sidewalk in Manhattan, raised a two-and-a-half-pound prototype to his ear, and placed the world’s first handheld cellular phone…

Every morning until eight, you can walk straight down the middle of this palm-lined beach avenue, and feel like the whole coast was built for people, because there isn’t a single car in sight.

20 years ago, if you recognized how deep America’s problems were, it was easy to feel like you were the crazy one. Banks were handing out mortgages to people who plainly couldn’t afford them.

On New Year’s Day in the year 1829, a 29-year-old young lady from Washington DC named Peggy Timberlake married John Eaton— a powerful senator from Tennessee. Eaton was also close friends with the…

It was the spring of 1982. Ronald Reagan was just over a year into his first term, and the US economy was still in pretty rough shape. Interest rates remained sky-high, inflation was still hovering…

[Editor’s note: This letter was written by Schiff Sovereign’s CEO, Viktorija, who is originally from Lithuania but splits her time between Mexico and Panama.] The first time I came to Panama was about…

There’s a reason why your next iPhone is about to get a lot more expensive: the northern long-eared bat. This species of bat is federally recognized as endangered, and it nests in a stretch of forest…

In December 1916, with German and Austro-Hungarian armies closing in on Bucharest, the Romanian government made a decision that must have felt entirely sensible at the time. Romania had gambled its…

Yao Tongbin was one of the most important scientists in Maoist China. He had earned a doctorate in metallurgy in England, spent three years at a research institute in West Germany, and left it all to…

On the afternoon of September 6, 1901, President William McKinley stood in a receiving line at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, shaking hands with a crowd of well-wishers.

[Editor’s note: This letter was written by Schiff Sovereign’s CEO, Viktorija] Picture the kind of life that, in the West, only the genuinely rich can afford: a full-time housekeeper who cooks and…

The lights went on at approximately 3pm on September 4, 1882 in New York City. Thomas Edison (with major funding from JP Morgan) had spent roughly two years building the first-ever commercial power…

Washington has a comforting story about Social Security: yes, the trust fund is running out of money, but not until 2032. That leaves six more years to form the commissions, schedule the hearings…

On July 7, Bloomberg published an article with the headline: “Gold’s Bull Market Has Ended and Now All Eyes Are on Bears,” explaining how many retail investors have headed for the exits. That same day…

Hollywood is synonymous with California. It’s where the entire industry of motion pictures was born and raised for a century. The sign in the hills above Los Angeles might be the most famous…

On Tuesday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the nation’s first statewide ban on new AI data centers. Data center development, she explained, “threatens to hike up utility bills…

In Ann Arbor, Michigan, there’s a psychiatry practice called Mind Work that doesn’t take Medicare. It doesn’t take Medicaid or Blue Cross or any other insurance either. Patients pay cash.