This is Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires a 100 years ago, a rich, rapidly developing city with inhabitants that, on paper, looked to be on the path of becoming as rich as Britain, just like other up-coming nations like Canada and Germany. However, after 1930, Argentina stagnated, and then declined after... [Read More]

This is the share of assets that the world’s central banks hold in gold. Right after the second war, central banks held over 70% of their assets in Gold. But, in just a few decades, this declined to just under 10% in 2010. However, now, that trend is reversing, with... [Read More]

Spain is back! That is, according to The Economist, who crowned it the ‘rich’ world’s best economy in 2024, thanks to its rapid economic growth, low inflation, plummeting unemployment and amazing stock market performance. However, while many media outlets agreed, Spaniards … seem to disagree wholeheartedly, with over 63% of... [Read More]

China just released a new A.I. model that has led U.S. A.I. companies like Open A.I. as well as chip suppliers like Nvidia to shed trillions of Dollars in value overnight. So, did China just pop the A.I. bubble? To answer that question, we need to first ask ourselves some... [Read More]

So, here we are. We have arrived at a point where prominent politicians from BOTH the democratic and republican party feel like the U.S. has become an Oligarchy. But, is that true? Are U.S. billionaires like Michael Bloomberg, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and, perhaps even Donald Trump himself,... [Read More]