Cannabis Industry Insights 6-5-18

Cannabis Industry Insights 6-5-18

New Gallup Poll Shows Majority Sentiment Toward Cannabis Usage It appears that “religiosity” is the determining factor as to moral sentiment regarding recreational cannabis use. Age does too, to a certain extent, although more than 50% of Baby Boomers seem more...
The Six Vicious Circles of the World According to Ron Paul

The Six Vicious Circles of the World According to Ron Paul

Are you familiar with the Nine Circles of Hell from Dante’s Inferno? Well, here’s Ron Paul’s version of the same concept, updated to reflect geopolitical and economic Hell on Earth. Have we been here for some time? The risk of loss in the trading of...
Cannabis Industry Insights 6-5-18

Cannabis Industry Insights 6-1-18

Jeff Sessions’ Hard Crackdown is Working, But Not in the Way He Intended US Attorney General Jeff Sessions once said, “Good people don’t smoke marijuana.” His anti-cannabis crackdown is in full swing, and its beginning to make an impact. But here’s the thing: the US...
Cryptocurrency Insights 5-31-18

Cryptocurrency Insights 5-31-18

Will Bitcoin Vindicate Nobel Laureate Economist Friedrich Hayek? In 1976, F.A. Hayek, the 1974 Nobel Prize winner, published a work titled Denationalisation of Money. In it he prophetically spoke of a future in which privately-issued moneys would compete not only...
Geopolitics and Macroeconomics Update

Geopolitics and Macroeconomics Update

Italy, “Safe Bonds,” and Europe’s Populist Fantasyland Mises.org So, what’s wrong with Italy’s populist economic program? Contrary to populist belief, what makes it a threat to Europe? Here’s a critical question: to what extent are Italy’s economic woes...