Tim McMahon

Work by editor and author, Tim McMahon, has been featured in Bloomberg, CBS News, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Forbes, Washington Post, Drudge Report, The Atlantic, Business Insider, American Thinker, Lew Rockwell, Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, Oakland Press, Free Republic, Education World, Realty Trac, Reason, Coin News, and Council for Economic Education.

The Future of the Metaverse

Metaverse vs. Multiverse- What are They? And Where are They Leading?

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What Exactly is the Metaverse?

In October 2021, Facebook changed its parent company name to “Meta” to align the company with its ambitions to build the “metaverse.” NASDAQ.com believes that this rebranding will help boost the price of its stock in the same way that its name change to Alphabet boosted Google. By changing its name many believe that Facebook is signaling a change in corporate direction from a simple social media platform to a ‘meta-universe company’ i.e. one that combines virtual experiences with reality.

Is “metaverse” just the newest “Buzzword” or is “The Metaverse” like trying to explain the “The Internet” to someone in the 1970s? If you talk to CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg the metaverse is the future of the internet. But is this just hype or is it the fruition of the Sci-Fi dream of virtual reality and everything running via computers and holograms?

The term “metaverse” is said to have been coined back in 1992 by Sci-Fi author Neal Stephenson in his novel, “Snow Crash.” The idea was that virtual people aka. “Avatars” travel through imaginary worlds living out their dreams. In the book, Snow Crash Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc., in real life but in the Metaverse, he’s a warrior prince. By 2009, the idea of “avatars” was firmly embedded in the culture, and the movie Avatar had literal humans traveling to distant planets where they would virtually inhabit alternative bodies.

What are the implications of a shift toward the metaverse?

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Cancer Cells

Curing Cancer with T-Cells

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Up until recently, cancer treatment has focused on bombarding the cancer cells with toxic chemicals or harmful radiation. This puts surrounding cells and even the entire body under stress to repair the damage caused by these stressors. But what if the body’s own natural defense system could be educated to target specific cancer cells and then enhanced and supplemented to be able to fight the cancer cells? That is exactly what the new called chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy does.

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Real Estate Rental Trends

The Making of the Next Housing Crisis

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Who could imagine that the seeds of the next housing crisis would be planted by the CDC during a pandemic? But that is exactly what happened. On September 4, 2020… well past the peak of COVID cases, the CDC unilaterally decided that landlords shouldn’t be allowed to evict tenants for non-payment of rent because a bunch of homeless people milling around could spread the disease. 

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Oil vs Gold Chart

Which is Over Priced? Oil or Gold?

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Was gold in a Bubble? Does the recent correction mean anything? With the value of the dollar constantly changing it is hard to tell what it all means. After all, can you imagine trying to build a house if every day when the workers arrived you gave them a different size ruler?

With everything from lumber to bitcoins skyrocketing in price (or the dollar devaluing), is there any way to tell the real value of something? How much is anything really worth? Is Oil overpriced? How about Gold? Is it overpriced? Is it cheap now that the price has come down? Looking at these commodities in the standard way, it’s often difficult to tell.

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