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Just a quick reminder of who’s really in charge

[Editor’s Note: As we’re coming up on the end of the year, we thought it would be appropriate to republish some of our most popular articles. Today’s was originally published on May 3, 2017] Today the world of banking and finance waited with baited breath for the Federal Reserve in the United States

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“If you can keep it…”

[Editor’s Note: As we’re coming up on the end of the year, we thought it would be appropriate to republish some of our most popular articles from 2017. Today’s was originally published on May 18] On September 17, 1787 on the final day of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin was approached

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Argentina issues 100-year bond. What could possibly go wrong?

Apparently while I was in the air yesterday flying between Asia and Europe, the financial system proved once again that it believes in magic beans. The latest absurdity is that the government of Argentina sold $2.75 billion worth of bonds yesterday afternoon. It’s not strange or unusual for a government to sell bonds;

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Turkish NBA player has passport revoked by ‘the Hitler of our century’

Enes Kanter is a Turkish citizen who plays center for the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder. Like many professional athletes, Kanter has a couple of charities in his name. His education fund provides first-year college scholarships to support selected US students – including a family’s first female child and children of law enforcement and

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The worst guy on the planet

Jose Rafael Torrealba wins the award for biggest scumbag on the planet today. Torrealba is a Venezuelan army general who was featured in a leaked audio recording that was just published yesterday. The recording is of a meeting that took place a few weeks ago in Venezuela in which he and his fellow

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We got robbed this weekend

It’s true. Over the weekend at an amazing, closed-door event that we held here in Las Vegas exclusively for our Total Access members, a number of us got robbed. It happened on Saturday, which was an intense day packed with a dozen Q&A sessions with the CEOs of exciting private businesses in which

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The “justice” system killed this guy for stealing $14

During the winter of 1796, a Frenchman named Eugene Francois Vidocq was sentenced to eight years of hard labor after being convicted of document forgery. It was a remarkably harsh punishment for a non-violent crime, especially in Vidocq’s case as there was not even a victim. Yet this took place during the chaos

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