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Think back to where you were two years ago today. For me, I was in Trakai, Lithuania. It was Day 4 of our 10th annual Sovereign Academy entrepreneurship camp. My dear friends Bill and Marco were giving a joint lecture to the students on hiring, firing, and building culture within a business. Craig
As a journalist in China, Liu Hu was no stranger to punishment. For reporting on corruption among government officials, Hu was arrested, accused of “fabricating and spreading rumours,” and fined. But then one day in 2017 he suddenly found that he was unable to buy a plane ticket. The system just rejected him.
In the year 1348, after more than a decade of war with France, Kind Edward III of England noticed that many knights who returned home from the front lines had become completely impoverished. The war had taken a massive financial toll on Edward’s men. Some of them had been captured in battle and
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. “Long Covid” Can Now Qualify as a Disability The White House issued a lengthy statement this week,
By the summer of 1849, Karl Marx was still an obscure writer struggling to make an impact. He had published The Communist Manifesto— a short, 23-page pamphlet– the previous year in 1848. But as yet it had failed to catch on. Marx was operating a fledgling newspaper in Germany at the time. But
Late in the evening of October 17, 1534, a small group of protestant activists swept across the five biggest cities in France, posting anti-Catholic propaganda posters all over town in major public squares. The activists even managed to brazenly nail one of their posters to the bedroom door of King Francis I, himself
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. UK to issue vaccine passports to people in the PLACEBO group Britain’s “vaccine minister” (yes I’m serious)
Nearly every year in his annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letters, Warren Buffett spends a few pages talking about the dynamism of the American economy. His message is clear: the United States has faced adversity before. It will again. But America always prevails and you should never bet against it. That theme has certainly
In May 1969, at the height of America’s involvement in Vietnam, the US military declared victory in the Battle of Hamburger Hill. The Army had lost only 50 soldiers and killed about 600 Viet Cong in the process of taking the remote hilltop. But US journalists questioned the importance of the victory: what
Robert Woodruff, President and CEO of Coca Cola, was in a terrible jam in 1953. Coke was already one of the most popular and successful products in the world. Everyone loved it. Coca Cola had become such a staple in American life, in fact, that, in 1943, the US War Department requisitioned 6
