Last Friday’s Wall Street Journal featured an excellent piece from Stephen Eide titled, “Homelessness Is Behind the Anger at Gavin Newsom.” Here’s an excerpt... Read More ›
The whole idea behind Breadcoin is to restore dignity to the hungry and homeless. More than that, the idea is to connect people to a wider community. Read More ›
The surge in violence by the seriously mentally ill is a major threat to public safety in the New York City. But the city’s leadership would prefer to focus on mental-health care in general, distracting from the few mentally ill people who are the real cause of public fear. Read More ›
While Seattle wrestles with its own homelessness problem, a small suburb to the Emerald City’s east has been saving homeless mothers and their children from cycles of abuse, addiction, and homelessness for over twenty years. Read More ›
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and California Governor Gavin Newsom have changed their tune on homelessness. Is this a sign of hope for a state in dire need of relief for their burgeoning homeless population? Or are these merely toothless political moves in the face of a recall election? Read More ›
Are resources becoming more or less abundant? To answer this question we analyzed the change in the time prices of 50 basic commodities from 1980 to 2020. Recall that 1980 was the year Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich entered into their famous 10-year $1,000 bet on the price of five metals. Read More ›
All is not lost. Our politicians may not have a grasp on how to fix homeless, but ordinary people might. Take, for instance, Alan Graham and his Community First! Village in Austin, Texas. What started as a mobile food truck serving the homeless has exploded into a 51-acre RV community providing not just a home, but a transformed life, to those experiencing chronic homelessness. Read More ›
A recent apartment fire in the Seattle area could have been prevented had law enforcement been empowered to provide true help to a man in mental distress. Read More ›
Americans have overcome many daunting challenges throughout their nation’s past, often waking up at the 11th hour before taking action and prevailing. Protecting our citizens’ freedom and saving America as a beacon of freedom in the world should be our top priority. Read More ›
Dmitriy Balkovskiy, a Russian businessman, published my first book Gold: The Once and Future Money (2007) in the Russian language. This worked well: Not long after, Russia’s largest television station, Channel One, sent a video crew to my house in Upstate New York to interview me for a big documentary on the world monetary system. Read More ›