One of the benefits of the Internet is how it has facilitated the unprecedented rise of alternative media. For decades, the corporate press has dominated the media landscape. This allowed political and business elites to easily shape popular narratives and more...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO8c5xs3zT8 If there is one thing that we can learn from economics, it’s that change is inevitable. Nothing stays the same forever. Economic trends that were present in a previous decade, simply don’t hold in the present. For...
Debt is treated like a four-letter by many financial gurus out here. In reality, debt is an actual asset. We’ll be the first to concede that consumer debt is a no-go. The mainstream financial experts are right about that. Most people who incur consumer debt do so...
https://youtu.be/p9dj9E3uvjk?si=XwTldwaPKql_yYeK Sometimes the greatest progress can be made by simply following the basics. Whether it’s getting your health right or securing your finances, the key to success is a stubborn focus on getting the basics down to a...
At the Empowered Investor community we stress the importance of wealth building and financial sovereignty. These concepts are more than just buzzwords. They represent what you must attain if you want to brave the future economic storm that awaits us. We’re not going...
Tired tropes about housing abound in economic commentary. Often you’ll hear financial commentators talk about one single “housing market” in the United States. But as Jason Hartman has long argued, there are many housing markets in the US that vary in price, size,...
Understanding economic history is of the utmost importance these days. There’s a lot of bad information out here that has to be refuted. For example, many court historians argue that the New Deal got America out of the Great Depression. Real historical evidence...
As mass inflation becomes the new normal in the American political economy, policymakers are desperately finding ways to address this problem. Unfortunately, most of the solutions consist of more government intervention — the very action that brought about this...
Most people don’t realize that things weren’t so great after the 13 American colonies officially gained their independence from Great Britain in 1783. In prominent states like Massachusetts, there was significant economic inequality between the more affluent coastal...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YobTUx3Zgq8 With so much economic chaos all around us, there’s going to inevitably be talks about how housing is impacted. Still shell-shocked by the housing crisis of the 2000s, many people believe that there will be a repeat of this...
