by Martin Armstrong The 117th Congress is the oldest in American history. Former President Trump attempted to enact term limits. However, he failed to gain the two-thirds majority in either chamber needed to amend the Constitution. Joe Biden is the oldest …
I’ve been there in 1993. A bunch of guys took me there and I asked a dumb question “what was this place before it became a pub? They responded, A PUB!” The current operator of the pub in St. Albans …
by Simon Black By the time Alexander the Great and his Macedonian army conquered the city of Samarkand in 329 BC, the city had already existed for centuries. Samarkand had been a prominent, vibrant regional capital in the Persian Empire prior …
Three weeks after the events of Hurricane Katrina, the Louisiana Governor announced that Charity Hospital would not reopen. Despite the effort from the military, FEMA, and volunteers who pumped the remaining flood water out of the hospital and prepared it …
via nationalgeographic: Modern humans’ distant relatives left Africa earlier than previously thought—rewriting a key chapter in humankind’s epic prequel, according to a discovery unveiled on Wednesday in Nature. Nearly a hundred stone tools found at the Shangchen site in central China may push …
More than seven years after the worst of the last financial crisis, critics are still scolding the Fed and other central banks for their role in the downturn. And while many of us are still preoccupied with the post-crisis recovery, …