Wealth & Poverty Review

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^{Walter Myers III
December 3, 2025
Free Enterprise

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It’s Time to Say Goodbye to the Obamacare Failure

_{Walter Myers III
December 3, 2025
Free Enterprise

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Imagine tuning into a Sunday football game. Amid the flurry of touchdowns and tackles, the commercials are filled with familiar names — State Farm, Allstate, Liberty Mutual, and Farmers — vying for your dollars to cover your cars, homes, and personal liability. You have choices, and the competing advertisements are evidence of a robust marketplace where consumers benefit from price competition and innovation. But imagine if, alongside those ads, you could also shop for your health insurance — across state lines, no different than car or home coverage. Read More ›

^{Scott S. Powell
November 26, 2025
Principles

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Thanksgiving: Why It Is America’s Foundational Holiday

_{Scott S. Powell
November 26, 2025
Principles

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The Thanksgiving holiday, which commemorates one part of the Pilgrim story, remains the favorite holiday for many Americans. And for good reasons, beyond enjoying a feast. With our country passing through troubled times, it is worth revisiting the Pilgrims' five significant achievements, which created the seminal story of America, and reveals remarkable insights into who we are and the qualities of character we need to overcome our present challenges. Read More ›

Memorial Day Parade with Veteran and Child

^{Scott S. Powell
November 12, 2025
Politics

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Veterans Day: The Holiday Whose Time Has Come

_{Scott S. Powell
November 12, 2025
Politics

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The U.S. has always stood for freedom and against aggression and tyranny. Surely many Americans who enlisted to serve in wartime knew neither the forsaken places they were going nor what they would encounter, but they all had a distinct conviction that they were fighting not only to set overseas captives free but to protect freedom at home. Read More ›

A collection of gold and silver bullion bars stacked in a secure vault symbolizing wealth preservation and investment security.

^{Nathan Lewis
November 8, 2025
Currency

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The BRICS Need Gold Bank Accounts

_{Nathan Lewis
November 8, 2025
Currency

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The BRICS — a consortium of eleven countries, with 22 more in application stages, led by China, Russia, India and Brazil — declared in October the building of a new “gold settlement architecture as a strategic safeguard against global financial volatility.” This is a fine goal, which can take many specific forms. The quickest and easiest way (although not necessarily the “best” way) to get this done is to introduce “gold checking accounts”… Read More ›

panoramic view of reykjavik at wintertime, iceland

^{Gale Pooley
November 3, 2025
Abundance, Principles

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Iceland: More Entrepreneurs or More Bureaucrats?

_{Gale Pooley
November 3, 2025
Abundance, Principles

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For Iceland to thrive, it must continue to unleash its creative energy—to innovate, to speak, and to let knowledge flow as freely as its geothermal springs. Iceland is proof that wealth is not in the ground but in the mind. When faced with the scarcity of matter, Icelanders discovered the infinite power of knowledge. Read More ›

^{Nathan Lewis
October 28, 2025
Currency

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The BRICS’s New Gold Settlement Architecture Is Being Built — But Won’t Be Needed

_{Nathan Lewis
October 28, 2025
Currency

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The "BRICS" is now a consortium of ten countries, with 22 more countries in application stages, led by Russia, China and India. Events since 2022 have lit a fire under the BRICS members to establish a new global financial and currency architecture that is wholly independent of the US dollar system, which has been the main focus since the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944. Read More ›

Two national flags the united states of america and india waving proudly side by side against a bright blue sky with fluffy white clouds

^{Walter Myers III
October 7, 2025
Economic Policy

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The Indian American Community Deserves Immigration Fairness

_{Walter Myers III
October 7, 2025
Economic Policy

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The Trump administration's abrupt move to impose a $100,000 fee on new H-1B skilled worker visa applications has sent shockwaves through America's technology sector and the vast Indian immigrant community that powers it. Announced on Friday, September 19, and set to take effect the following Sunday, the directive sparked panic and confusion for workers, businesses, and families — culminating in a frenzied rush to return to the United States before the new rule's midnight deadline. Read More ›

Group of young African kids walking with buckets and jerrycans on their head as they prepare to bring clean water back to their village.

^{Nathan Lewis
October 1, 2025
Economic Policy, Taxes

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How Africa Can Get Rich

_{Nathan Lewis
October 1, 2025
Economic Policy, Taxes

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Africa too can get rich, as once-poor Asian countries have, but not if governments keep doing what they've been doing. Basically, they will have to throw off the stifling tax systems inherited from their prior colonial governments. There are other things you can add to that. But, I think we can say, with confidence, that if things stay as they are, nothing is possible. Read More ›

american flag wtih american constitution

^{Scott S. Powell
September 18, 2025
Politics, Principles

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Constitution Day: If Its Light Goes Out, Darkness and Oppression Are Sure to Follow

_{Scott S. Powell
September 18, 2025
Politics, Principles

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We have all had moments where we realized that if we had only known more or had critical information, we would have avoided making a serious mistake. Today there are a considerable number of elites in high places in America who embrace a vision for reordering America wherein our constitutional republican government would be supplanted by a new system to accommodate a new global order. It may be a shorter step than what most would think, for in the last 115 years America has seen its governance evolve from a constitutional republic into an unaccountable administrative state with little resistance. The critical lesson of history that every freedom-loving person needs to grasp is this: The entire world lived in political Read More ›

Fifty Hundred Dollar Banknote. Closeup of 50 USD bill. American Money. USA Currency, Cash Money as Background

^{Nathan Lewis
September 8, 2025
National Debt, Taxes

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How to Avoid Sovereign Default

_{Nathan Lewis
September 8, 2025
National Debt, Taxes

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Governments sometimes get themselves into trouble with too much debt. Early economist Adam Smith devoted the last chapter of his famous Wealth of Nations (1776) to the topic of sovereign default. “The progress of the enormous debts which at present oppress, and will in the long-run probably ruin, all the great nations of Europe, has been pretty uniform,” Smith wrote. “The practice of funding [financing deficits with debt] has gradually enfeebled every state which has adopted it.” Read More ›