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]

The year is 2014, this is Siaya county in rural Kenya, it is about to become part of one of the biggest free money experiments in history, distributing millions of Dollars to one of the poorest areas on earth. This program is about to fundamentally change the lives of people... [Read More]

In 2024, global inflation finally came back to down earth, without crashing the global economy, but with plenty of major disruptions that will guarantee that 2025 will be an eventful year for the global economy. But, what exactly can we expect? From the return of trade wars, potential austerity, and... [Read More]

Israel has been fighting not one, not two, but three expensive wars. It was spurring thousands of reservists into the military, shutting out Palestinian construction workers, evacuating thousands from the country’s north, and this combined with huge drops in foreign investment and tourism Israel was already putting a massive strain... [Read More]

Germany’s government recently collapsed, over a radical economic rule —the debt brake— which states that, essentially, Germany’s government should, on average, never spend more than it earns. This is extremely unusual. No other major government in the world has limited itself in such a way. In fact, most economists around... [Read More]