Mar 31, 2022
Have you thought about the Declaration of Independence as a foreign policy document? Or have you thought the same about Washington’s Farewell Address? Well they certainly are! The Declaration outlined our case for independence from another country and in itself is a statement on universal principles that were...
Mar 24, 2022
How much do you actually know about bitcoin? You’ve undoubtedly heard about it and people becoming wealthy because of it. But what do you actually know about what it is and what gives it value? Bitcoin is described as the world’s first decentralized digital currency but it is neither the first digital currency...
Mar 17, 2022
Trade. Trade Wars. Economic Sanctions. Tariffs. These are terms you hear nightly on the evening news but what are they? The Founding Fathers saw a need for our country to regulate international commerce–both leaving and coming into our country–as a tool to protect and advance our country’s interests. One of...
Mar 11, 2022
The deficit. The debt. What are they and aren’t they the same thing? To be concise, the debt is the total of the yearly deficit our country runs yearly between tax revenue and debt and no, they are not the same thing. Did you know the President is supposed to submit a budget to congress to approve? Instead,...
Mar 4, 2022
What is our national debt? How much is it and why does our government continue to spend money it does not have? How is it different than our deficit? Whatever our government spends has to be paid back, eventually, through either increased taxation or increasing our debt load. Knowing that, in what way does debt...