Friedman challenged the idea that governments could spend their way to prosperity. Fifty years after receiving the Nobel Prize, his most enduring lessons remain crucial -- and largely ignored.
A lost civilization left the same impossible clues across the entire planet, with similar megalithic structures, ancient symbols, and construction techniques appearing across cultures separated by vast distances.
Although the wealthy have been trying to take over our government since its founding on July 4, 1776, it took Lincoln's Civil War and the Coup of 1913 to actually bring it to fruition.
Marco Rubio stood under the Parthenon and told the West it's at a crossroads - national power or decline. Tom breaks down why this speech went viral, what Rubio is really signaling, and whether Trump can deliver on it.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a major speech in Athens calling for a renewal of Western civilization and a return to the values he said first emerged in ancient Greece.
After a five-day boat ride, the Purdue University research team has arrived at the remote island of Nikamuroro in the South Pacific to search for Amelia Earhart's missing plane.
In the autumn of 1987 a new Federal Reserve chairman raised interest rates for the first time in more than three years, bond yields went above 10 percent, American forces were fighting Iran in the Gulf, and stocks had just set a record. On Monday, Oc
A calamity ordained by Heaven may be escaped; A calamity ordained by oneself is inescapable." So warns Shujing, the ancient Chinese Book of Documents. If only Mao Zedong had heeded this call to humility.
10 Things to Learn: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Soul explores what it means to remain fully human in an age increasingly defined by technology, optimization, and artificial intelligence.
Silver Dave gets philosophical as he explores the history and fundamentals of money. We also get another glimpse of the SilverBitz™? factory floor, this time with an intimate look at one of the famous coin machines. Is silver money? If so, when?
Jared Diamond, PhD, is a professor, scientist, historian, and author of several books, including "Guns, Germs, and Steel," "Collapse," and "Why Is Sex Fun?" His latest book, "Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings," is available now.
But, as with most official retellings of historical turning points, the real history of Labor Day is a messy and violent one that blended a genuine desire to improve working standards with plenty of exploitative and self-serving activists, agitators,
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"We must recognize that many of the fundamental ideas that dominate our present-day world were founded upon a particular understanding of that wartime history...
In this episode of The Timeless Investor, Arie van Gemeren breaks down how this ancient text perfectly diagnoses the terminal illness of modern finance: substituting compliance for honor, and hiding behind "information asymmetry" to extract profit fr
On August 24, 1814, during the War of 1812 between the United States and England, British troops enter Washington, D.C. and burn the White House in retaliation for the American attack on the city of York in Ontario, Canada, in June 1813.
During the French Revolution, authorities in Paris turned to "a series of ventures in price-fixing and food control" to ensure people did not go hungry. It didn't work as planned.