LESSON: Do everything you can to promote Charter Schools, Vouchers, and any Possible Path to get your kids out of public education! Recently we blogged about America’s necessity to totally reboot our education system, so this weekend let’s drill down further on one great success – Charter Schools. For those not involved in this battle, Charter Schools are simply publicly funded independent schools established by teachers, parents, or community groups under the terms of a char

LESSON: Along with returning to a gold or silver monetary standard, the U.S. must produce a residential building boom (ownership not renting) and ban large corporations from residential home ownership. We recently reviewed how the printing of fiat money has already bankrupted the United States, raising our debt to $38 Trillion and reducing the value of a dollar 96% since the corrupt Federal Reserve took over. Now, let’s explain how the government and elites have destroyed the

LESSON: When you are in the throes of extreme adversity, you are an easy target for manipulation. Your hope and desperation blind you to the sharks circling your life raft. Be more aware and stronger than I was. The below lesson is an excerpt from my Amazon #1 Best Seller, When Not If: A CEO's Guide to Overcoming Adversity, Forbes Books, 2024. The night before my joint resentencing (the overturned sentence plus the bizarre new indictment), I called Ashleigh on the jail’s reco

LESSON: I spent time in 14 federal prisons so each institution could get paid – Body on Budget! The corruption is beyond anything you can imagine – get educated! Throughout my battle against the U.S. federal government, they sent me to 14 different federal prisons and jails. This was to ensure everyone gets paid. We called it body on budget . They also call it diesel therapy, so your family, lawyers, and paperwork could never catch up to you and provide any due process. It ha

LESSON: Fear and complacency cripple great careers and great lives. Slap yourself tomorrow and force yourself to think 10x bigger. Reach for the stars, and if you fall a little short, you’ll capture the moon. Set your alarm earlier tomorrow! Years ago, when our seven investment firms were thriving, we always held our annual corporate retreats in Nags Head, North Carolina at my beach house and rented three more for the entire firm to spend the weekend. As always, we did the ra

LESSON: U.S. public education is a disaster, by design, and unless we blow it up and start over, the government, economy, and prosperity of citizens cannot be possible forward. The below contains excerpts from the 25-lesson academic program, Building Special Companies , Jeff Martinovich, 2019. According to the 2024 NAEP “Nation’s Report Card,” 12th graders posted the lowest reading results in more than three decades, with over 30% unable to demonstrate basic proficiency and n