Lord Kelvin famously pronounced, “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind”. At the O’Neil Center we say, “If it can’t be measured, measure it anyway!” Whether it…

Dear FreedomFest Attendees, Fidel Castro was a brutal communist dictator and war criminal whose life spanned almost the entire era of the rise and fall of Communism.   He was born just nine years after the Bolshevik Revolution began in Russia, and lived to see the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.  But Communism is still not dead.  Under…

As is the custom in many homes, our Thanksgiving meal ended with each of us at the table expressing what we’re most grateful for this year. One of our guests, whose wife is expecting their second child, said, “I’ll go first!” Then he smiled and said, “I’m grateful for my DVR.” We all laughed, but…

I read a Forbes Magazine article back in September titled “Income During the Crash”, written by William Baldwin. It made me ponder the choices clients have for generating income from their savings—while considering the emotional roller coaster that comes with monitoring your investments regularly. The safest-sounding decision would be to convert your retirement savings into…

The following article is reprinted by permission from Ed Hudgins and The Atlas Society. Don’t miss The Atlas Society Summit at FreedomFest this year! The morning after Donald Trump’s presidential victory, I attended the weekly Wednesday Meeting hosted by Americans for Tax Reform, as I have for nearly two decades. Two decades ago, when then-First…

Best-selling author and financial advisor Howard Ruff passed away on Saturday, November 12, 2016, at age 85. Ruff is survived by his wife Kay,13 of their 14 children (9 biological, 5 adopted), and their 79 grandchildren and 48 great-grandchildren. I consider myself to be one of those “survived by’s” too. He brought me into the…

Popular FreedomFest speaker Jeffrey Tucker, FEE’s Director of Content, saw it coming–and he knew it wasn’t about race. The following article is reprinted from FEE.org with his permission. “White Supremacist America!” yells Counterpunch. “White Supremacists Bolstering Trump,” says AlterNet. This really is a “White Riot,” says Vox. That’s the opinion of the left for why…

This was a campaign season of flawed candidates and divisive rhetoric. No matter who won, we were doomed to elect a President who is less than perfect, less than honorable, less than likeable. But they still had millions of followers who were passionate in their support. Half of America is mourning today. Half are elated.…

“We stand today on the edge of a New Frontier — the frontier of the 1960s, the frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, the frontier of unfilled hopes and unfilled threats. … Beyond that frontier are uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered problems of ignorance and prejudice, unanswered…