Josh Owens

Writer, Safehaven.com

Contributor since: 21 Mar 2018

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• Millennials' Not-So-Healthy Health Craze

  Published 05 January 2020 | viewed 2,422 times

  Generation Y, also known as millennials, are all about their organic, whole foods, environmentally friendly products, fitness clubs, and standing desks. In fact, they’re the…

• The Dairy Industry Is Dying

  Published 17 November 2019 | viewed 14,606 times

  In 2018 alone, the U.S. lost 2,731 licensed dairy farms. That news has gone surprisingly underreported, until Dean Foods, America’s largest dairy company, filed for…

• Microsoft Japan Trials 4 Day Work Weeks, Productivity Soars By 40%

  Published 05 November 2019 | viewed 2,239 times

  Japan has 30 different words to say ‘work’. Karoshi is not one of them but it is related, as Japan is the only country in…

• The World Is Facing A $1 Trillion Food Waste Crisis

  Published 15 October 2019 | viewed 2,700 times

  Back in the 1980s, when Band Aid's first version of “Do They Know It's Christmas? (Feed The World)” was released, some 340 million people worldwide were…

• Peter Thiel’s Promised Land For Intellectual Troublemakers

  Published 05 October 2019 | viewed 3,705 times

  For all of those people who feel they have become victims of an ideological witch hunt or have been evicted from all forms of intellectual…

• The Doodle Frenzy Is Earning Unethical Breeders Top Dollar

  Published 29 September 2019 | viewed 11,323 times

  What do Labradoodles, the atomic bomb and coffee capsules have in common? Well, apparently the individuals who invented them deeply regret their contributions to mankind.…

• Why Is Iceland The Focus of Washington’s New Trade Strategy?

  Published 23 September 2019 | viewed 4,706 times

  Less than a month after his failed attempt to buy Greenland, Trump is now shifting attention to another Nordic nation—Iceland—but rather than offering to acquire…

• Insurance Businesses Are Fleeing The UK In Droves

  Published 03 September 2019 | viewed 3,419 times

  With less than two months before leaving the European Union, British lawmakers are back from summer recess, with their Brexit batteries recharged and ready to…

• The NYSE Is About To Go Vegan

  Published 25 August 2019 | viewed 7,548 times

  As a response to growing demand to find investments that meet criteria of vegan investors, US Vegan Climate ETF (VEGN) is set to hit the…

• Why Wealthy Kids Are Getting Into College For Free

  Published 15 August 2019 | viewed 2,506 times

  Sending your children to college is increasingly becoming an impossible financial task, and testimony to that is the latest cheat that has seen parents give…

• Protests And Trade War Crossfire Taking A Toll On Hong Kong’s Wealthiest

  Published 08 August 2019 | viewed 2,606 times

  Hong Kong is seething, and it’s draining multiple billions from the wealthy elite.  Nearly two million people have taken part in a mass protest in…

• An American Habit That’s Killing Retirement Funds

  Published 28 July 2019 | viewed 2,467 times

  Americans really love coffee. We mean, really. They love it so much that they spend more on coffee than they do on securing their financial…

• Can $50 Billion Bring Peace To The Middle East?

  Published 24 June 2019 | viewed 2,098 times

  Next week, White  House adviser Jared Kushner will host a peace plan conference in Bahrain that plans to invest $50 billion in economic development to…

• What Would You Do If You Found A Wallet On The Street?

  Published 23 June 2019 | viewed 3,648 times

  Maybe times are tough. Maybe you’re not a millionaire. Maybe you’re one of the many struggling to stay afloat with enormous piles of consumer debt,…

• What Happens When Beijing Is Biggest Owner Of US Debt?

  Published 12 June 2019 | viewed 2,277 times

  American exceptionalism remains alive and well, with anti-China rhetoric now having reached boiling point. It’s a bit of an existential quagmire. A few decades back,…

• The Looming Recession Will Be Worse Than 2008

  Published 04 June 2019 | viewed 4,133 times

  Good times can’t last forever – and the fear of a recession seems to be growing stronger by the day, with both Morgan Stanley and…

• Is Winter Coming For HBO?

  Published 19 May 2019 | viewed 4,368 times

  The show must go on. Well, not always. At least not for the Game of Thrones. The last episode of the 8th and final season…

• Lawmakers Propose Tax On Ultra-Wealthy To Curb $1.5 Trillion Student Debt

  Published 24 April 2019 | viewed 6,178 times

  At a time when Americans collectively hold an impossible $1.5 trillion in student loan debt, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Monday proposal for free public university…

• Does Capitalism Need An Upgrade?

  Published 14 April 2019 | viewed 5,027 times

  The question of capitalism vs socialism is as old as modern humanity, but when it comes to socialism, what once was enshrined in the Cold…

• China: The New King Of Caviar

  Published 23 March 2019 | viewed 8,395 times

  Though caviar has long been synonymous with the palette of the wealthy who acquired the luxury food item predominately from Russia and Iran, both things…