Prepping For A Cashless Control Grid How Digital Currency Becomes Digital Control

Foreign-Born Population Grows, But Relative Size Not Unprecedented While the number of immigrants in the U.S. as well as their share of the population has generally been rising, Statista's Katharina Buchholz points out that the level of the foreign-born population is not unprecedented. As of 2024, the latest year available through U.S. Census data, 14.8 percent of the U.S. population was foreign-born.  Data aggregated by the Migration Policy Institute shows that throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the foreign-born population of the U.S. had been just as high, before reaching a low of just...

Futures Flat, Bonds Drop Ahead Of Warsh Jackson Hole Speech US stock futures are flat and rates rise ahead of today's main event: Fed chief Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole speech at 10am ET (full preview here) as traders seek clarity on his economic outlook and his strategy for lowering inflation back to the Fed's 2% target. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are little changed and Nasdaq 100 futures are lower following the Nvidia-driven rally for the index in the prior session, when however only 30% of the S&P and 1...

In Defense Of Entrepreneurs By Matthew J. Brouillette via RealClearPennsylvania, Like clockwork, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) is again finding America's billionaires guilty by reason of existence, arguing the Elon Musks and Jeff Bezos of the world must donate more to the government via higher taxes. Her premise is that the wealthy don't pay their "fair share," leaving the non-wealthy to suffer in a zero-sum game. The problem is that Warren, and the many others in Congress like her, aren't simply attacking the wealthy; they are attacking the foundation of America's greatness -...