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Thirteen years ago my life changed forever. Colin Powell, then US Secretary of State and the most credible person in George W. Bush’s cabinet, made the case for war in Iraq on February 5, 2003. As a young military intelligence officer at the time, watching from a makeshift army base in
It’s news that seems ripped from the pages of The Onion. Or perhaps Atlas Shrugged. But incredibly enough it’s actually true: earlier this week, Congress proposed a new law authorizing the US Postal Service to provide banking and financial services. It’s called the “Providing Opportunities for Savings, Transactions, and Lending”
Even before his coronation in 1626, King Charles I of England was almost bankrupt. His predecessors King James and Queen Elizabeth had run the royal treasury down to almost nothing. Costly war and military folly had taken its toll. The crown had simply wasted far too much money, and brought
In case you missed it, yesterday we alerted you that the United States government has now officially accumulated $19 trillion in debt. This time it took them just 427 days of printing to pile on this last trillion dollars, compared to the over 75,000 days it took to rack up
On October 22, 1981, the national debt in the United States of America hit $1 trillion for the first time in history. It had taken the US federal government over two centuries to reach that mark. And in that period, America had won its independence and built a nation from
It’s been nearly a dozen years now that I’ve been living abroad as an expat. In that period I’ve lived in at least half a dozen countries and traveled to more than 100 on all seven continents. People often ask me questions like when am I going ‘back home’, as
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