Financial
Hell To Pay
The final condition for a market crash is falling into place by Chris Martenson Sometimes I wonder if I’m ever going to run out of new things to say about the economy. Nothing interesting has […]
Debt
Tyranny
Living In A Van Down By The River – Time To Face The True State Of The Middle Class In America
By Michael Snyder Do you remember the old Saturday Night Live sketches in which comedian Chris Farley portrayed a motivational speaker that lived in a van down by the river? Unfortunately, this is becoming a […]
Commentary
From An Industrial Economy To A Paper Economy – The Stunning Decline Of Manufacturing In America
By Michael Snyder Why does it seem like almost everything is made in China these days? Yesterday I was looking at some pencils that we had laying around the house and I noticed that they […]
Financial
Sorry Losers!
by Chris Martenson By its actions, the Federal Reserve has selected a precious few winners and many, many losers. Sadly, you are highly likely to be one of the losers. Sorry! I’m one, too, if […]
Financial
America The Debt Pig: We Are A ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Society – And ‘Pay Later’ Is Rapidly Approaching
By Michael Snyder If you really wanted to live like a millionaire, you could start doing it right now. All you have to do is to apply for as many credit cards as possible and […]
Commentary
Detroit Has Gone From Being The Greatest Manufacturing City In The World To A Global Joke
By Michael Snyder In 1960, the city of Detroit was the greatest manufacturing city that the world had ever seen. Nearly two million people lived there, and it had the highest per capita income in […]
Commentary
Everything You Need To Know About America’s Future
Long ago in the Land of the Free, if you wanted to start a saloon, you rented a space and started serving booze. You didn’t have to go through years of petitioning a bunch of […]
Freedom
The U.S. Has Lost 195,000 Good Paying Energy Industry Jobs
By Michael Snyder Not all jobs are created equal. There is a world of difference between a $100,000 a year energy industry job and a $10 an hour job running a cash register at Wal-Mart. […]
Wealth Abuse
Deutsche Bank Profit Plunges 98 Percent As The Outlook For ‘The World’s Riskiest Bank’ Darkens
By Michael Snyder The biggest and most important bank in the biggest and most important country in Europe continues to implode right in front of our eyes. If you follow my work regularly, you probably […]
Tyranny
Erdogan’s Staged Coup Has Resulted In A Purge Of 50,000 Teachers, Judges, Soldiers And Government Officials
By Michael Snyder Barack Obama’s “friend” in Turkey is a deeply corrupt radical Islamist dictator that has just staged a coup to consolidate his grip on power. As I have reported previously, 1,845 “journalists, writers […]