In Defense of Walmart
April 6, 2015 (April 10, 2015: Correction to financial claims about Walmart. See below, after end of original article.) By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher I’m sure many of you are aware of the “fairness” economists. Everything is measures by perceived “fairness”. For example, people who defend the Labor Theory of Value where the worth of something […]
Go Paperless as a Digital Nomad
April 3, 2015 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP I remember as a kid watching my dad pull out these huge green notepads with horizontal and vertical lines running the length of the paper. These pads were enormous – probably 3 feet by 2 feet rectangles. He would open up this pad on his huge […]
Greater Scrutiny of American Bank Transactions
March 30, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher It would appear we are commemorating Woodrow Wilson’s tattle policies by reinstituting them… with a British twist. What happens when Wilson-era policies (A) and British banking policies (B) give each other a “special hug”? Well, that’s an experiment I hoped would never come to pass given the unethical […]
Playing By The Rules
March 23, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher I cannot be the only person in the United States who has asked themselves – with regards to many government activities – “Is this really legal?!” Not that legality has anything to do with morality or what’s right and wrong, but it does have something to do with […]
Iceland Rescinds Its Bid for EU Membership
March 16, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher Iceland recently made public its intention to withdraw its bid for European Union membership. It placed its bid for membership back in 2009, when the financial crisis was at a head. The fall of Lehman Brothers in the United States toppled three of Iceland’s largest banks, so at […]
Václav Klaus: Our Freedom Is Endangered
March 12, 2015 With Claudio Grass & Vaclav Klaus (The interview is also available below this article. We encourage you to read it if this article caught your interest!) “The best environment for man is the environment of liberty.” – Václav Klaus Liberty is a fundamental human right and the cornerstone of our existence. But […]
Modern Indentured Servitude?
March 9, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher I remember back in grade school I was told that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and made us all equal. I also remember when I grew up and read more about American history since the Emancipation Proclamation, figuring out that the grade-school claim was only half right. Abraham […]
Ridesharing: A Lesson In Deregulation?
March 2, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher Back in October of last year, I wrote about the challenges ride-share businesses such as Uber, Lyft and Sidecar, are facing (“Constipated Economy”). These challenges continue in the more densely populated markets such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York. There are small victories that ride-share entrepreneurs […]
How Will Hackers Help Build A Libertarian 21st Century?
February 27, 2015 By: Marco Ricca The debate is raging: what will we make of the information age? Are we moving towards a technological dystopia, whereby Big Brother monitors and regulates our every action and thought? Or, conversely, does the digital revolution contain the promise of a renewed era of liberty? The former view definitely […]
The New Best Offshore Banking Jurisdiction, Accounts Online?
Offshore Bank Accounts Online by Bobby Casey About three weeks ago a buddy of mine came for a visit in Riga, Latvia. He was looking for a getaway for a couple of weeks and wanted to explore the region I have called home for several years now. A few weeks ago he read one of […]
