Money may not buy happiness, but, as Visual Capitalist's Jeff Desjardins notes, it does buy the ultimate flexibility for making financial and lifestyle decisions.
For many of the world’s millionaires, money provides a highly effective means to escape their home country when times get tough. They can pack their bags, and move their family and capital to a location that will provide superior opportunities for prosperity.
A Superior Court judge has ruled that authorities in California must publicly release papers outlining the carcinogenic dangers cellphone usage pose to the public. Up until now, State officials at the Environmental Health Investigations branch tried to keep the documents hidden from public view. However, on Friday, a judge ruled that the state must release all documents that detail the health risks associated with radiation emitted from cellular devices.
This will be the biggest challenge for developed nations over the next hundred years: depopulation.
Expect strange things to happen in the western world and developed nations in Asia over the next fifty years -- marked by unusual foreign policy moves -- and a craven, almost desperate clamoring for middle eastern, south american and african migrants to replace their withering and decadent societies.
Why?
Credit expansion, or at a minimum, stasis.
Republican Governor Paul LePage dared to begin enforcing Maine's volunteer and work requirements for food stamp (SNAP) recipients to keep their benefits. The end result was more than 9,000 non-disabled adults getting dropped from the program.
As CNS News' Eric Schiener reports, a Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) spokesman tells the Associated Press that 12,000 non-disabled adults were in Maine’s SNAP program before Jan. 1 - a number that dropped to 2,680 by the end of March...
President Trump's crackdown in illegal immigration means more wall-building, more ICE agents, and a notably bigger budget for the border patrol program. As the following chart shows, that would be an extreme departure from the stagnant spending on our nation's borders by President Obama.
As Statista's Dyfed Loesche notes, the overall enacted budget for the U.S. Border Patrol program has risen steadily since the 1990s... until 2011 - when President Obama appeared to kill any further spending...
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