The Capital Research Center is excited to attend our second FreedomFest! Through our Dangerous Documentaries film brand, we’ll be screening three of our films at the Anthem Film Festival and participating in at least 4 panels. We hope you can join us! And please visit us in booth # 806! Friday, July 19th at 1:00pm we’ll screen the…
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3 Insider Secrets to Raise Your Trading IQ
3 Insider Secrets to Raise Your Trading IQ Sentiment analysis is the cornerstone of the way we at Schaeffer’s Investment Research approach the market. And in particular, over our nearly four decades of experience in the options trading industry, we’ve learned that it pays to take a contrarian approach to investing by going against the grain…
6 Ways Financial Dependence Limits Your Freedom
It’s easy to see how being a “kept person” by one’s spouse or family limits one’s freedom. One’s actions are limited to those which won’t upset the source of the money. But even when you’re earning (or living off) your own funds, financial missteps and obligationscan significantly limit your freedoms. Here’s what they’re not telling…
Post-mortem: A meditation on Mexico City’s Glorious Central Post Office
Confession time: I’m hopelessly sentimental about mail, the postman and the post office. It conjures up memories of long-distance romances, draft notices, treasured letters from home received in faraway lands, college admission news, acceptance and rejection letters for jobs or freelance writing gigs. As I write this I’ve got Spotify tuned to one of my…
Yes– in MY Back Yard!
I need a land line. Don’t get me wrong; I’m into big tech. I use my pocket-sized computer about 9 hours a day, according to Apple’s built-in surveillance report, (which I never asked for and would be perfectly happy never to see again. It’s as bad as having to see the calorie-count when I’m standing…
Don’t Fence Us In: The Atlas Society
Don’t Fence Us In: The Atlas Society Brings a Multimodal Approach to FreedomFest The Atlas Society is honored to announce that our viral Draw My Life video, My Name is Victimhood, is a finalist in this year’s Anthem Libertarian Film Festival at Freedom Fest, July 17 – 20, 2019. Written by Jennifer Grossman, My Name is…
Countries or Jails? In Favor of Open Borders
The following arguments are often touted to close borders, build “Berlin” walls and have Stasi & KGB type security at the border shooting immigrants as they attempt to cross over. As we shall explain, all these arguments fail the basic libertarian tenet of freedom and voluntary interaction. Welfare Arguments are made that many immigrants end…
A Libertarian Take on Making Money Beyond the Financial Services Industry
A Libertarian Take on Making Money Beyond the Financial Services Industry It’s a given. We all want to make more money on our investments. But did you know that more than ninety percent of traditional money managers in the United States underperform the stock market in relation to the market index? Here are the facts…
FreedomFest: The Perfect Antidote to our Rabid Political Dogfight
“Who is this Mueller guy? Should I be concerned?” Overheard at a cafe in my hometown on April 18, 2019, the day the Russia report by the special counsel was released and the news generated a rare Washington, D.C., headline on the web site of our Gannett-owned daily newspaper in rural northern California. How I…
Prescription Drug Addiction and the Elderly
As people grow older, they experience changes and situations that can contribute to a prescription drug addiction. As more and more drugs are prescribed to treat the discomforts associated with aging, more and more elderly people find themselves becoming dependent upon them, abusing them, and grappling with an addiction to them. What Contributes to the…