All posts tagged "economy"
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Economy and Finance
As The Wealthy Flock To The Major Cities On Both Coasts, Poverty And Suicide Soar In Rural Areas
August 22, 2018We live at a time when the gap between the wealthy and the poor is exploding,...
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Economy and Finance
Libertarians vs. Reality
August 22, 2018Before Social Security mutual aid and fraternal organizations helped the poor and indigent. These organizations were...
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Economy and Finance
Denmark as a Model for American Socialists?
August 21, 2018Here are some facts to consider before American "democratic socialists" look to Denmark for guidance, as...
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Economy and Finance
War Abroad, War at Home
August 21, 2018Why do seemingly endless military conflicts persist, despite lacking any constituency for their prosecution beyond the...
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Controlling the Herd
The Grand Irony of RussiaGate: The U.S. Becomes More Like the U.S.S.R. Every Day
August 10, 2018When the Soviet regime exiled Sakharov in 1980, everybody assumed the USSR was permanent and impregnable...
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Controlling the Herd
Americans Live In A World Of Lies
August 6, 2018The US government and the presstitutes that serve it continue to lie to us about everything.
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Economy and Finance
The Real Cost of Medicare for All is in Lives, Not Dollars
August 3, 2018For all the many issues that exist today with American healthcare — all the direct result of...
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Economy and Finance
Some Ideas To Think About
August 3, 2018For the ordinary person, free market capitalism, with all of its warts, is superior to any...
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Economy and Finance
Who Does America Belong to?
August 3, 2018America is ruled by a tiny percentage of people who constitute a treasonous class. These people...
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Economy and Finance
Trump’s Tweets End the Myth of Fed Independence
July 31, 2018Significant rate increases could make it impossible for the government to service its existing debt, thus...
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Editor's Choice
Four Obvious Areas for Improvement in America
July 20, 2018In this article, we take a look at some of the key policies that could help...
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Economy and Finance
Our Institutions Are Failing
July 16, 2018Incompetence has been institutionalized, and is now the accepted norm. Schools fail, municipal agencies fail, oversight agencies...
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Economy and Finance
The Western World’s Most Depressing Chart
July 9, 2018The Western world became rich when governments were very small and redistribution was tiny or even...
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Economy and Finance
We Are All Hostages of Corporate Profits
July 6, 2018The economy and society at large are now totally dependent on soaring corporate profits and the...
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Economy and Finance
“This Isn’t Fake, This Is Real”: Millennials Resort To Cyberbegging To Finance Down Payment
July 2, 2018We imagine there are millions of American millennials who have made it through college, found a...
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Economy
Ten Things Millennials Should Know About Socialism (Video)
June 25, 2018In this video, Thomas DiLorenzo, professor of economics at Loyola University in Maryland and a member...
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Economy and Finance
The Best Places To Live In All 50 U.S. States
June 22, 2018My choices have a lot more to do with quality of life and sustainability during the...
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Controlling the Herd
The Us Drug War Started 47 Years Ago Tomorrow. Some Commentary From Milton Friedman on That Failed and Shameful War
June 21, 2018"See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the...
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Economy and Finance
“Free” College Comes at a Price
June 1, 2018Were it not for the subsidized loans and — in the case of public colleges —...
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Controlling the Herd
“Yucky” Freedom (Video)
June 1, 2018There are still misguided people who point to unpleasant, distasteful, or just less-than-ideal economic situations, and...
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Economy and Finance
Record 95.9 Million Americans Are No Longer In The Labor Force
June 1, 2018In other words, contrary to prevailing economist groupthink, there is a lot of slack in the...
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Economy and Finance
U.S. Healthcare Isn’t Broken–It’s Fixed
May 18, 2018If you want to understand why the U.S. healthcare system is bankrupt, financially, morally and politically,...
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Crime/Police State
Jordan Belfort – From ‘Wolf Of Wall Street’ To ‘Deadbeat On Main Street’
May 17, 2018For Jordan Belfort -the Long Island penny-stock boiler-room operator of "Wolf of Wall Street" infamy -...
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Economy and Finance
Millennial Candidates Embrace Socialism, while Venezuela Chokes on it
May 16, 2018That’s what socialism looks like. Implementation of Marx’s ideas make nobody happy, other than spoiled millennials...
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Economy and Finance
Taking the Pulse of a Weakening Economy
May 4, 2018Corporate buybacks provide the key analogy for the economy as a whole.
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Controlling the Herd
The Blowback Against Facebook, Google and Amazon Is Just Beginning
April 27, 2018The typical corporation can buy political influence, but Facebook and Google are manipulating the machinery of...
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Controlling the Herd
The Secret Circle That Controls Governments
April 26, 2018Who is in charge of destroying economies? One group has been virtually forgotten. Its influence is...
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Economy and Finance
Bernie Sanders Has a Jobs Plan. It’s Called ‘Socialism.’
April 24, 2018Can’t get work? Trim hedges for the government!
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Controlling the Herd
Connecting the Dots of Big Data, Soaring Corporate Profits and Trade Wars
April 23, 2018It's self-evident that we cannot possibly understand trade, soaring corporate profits, Facebook's data collection or the...
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Economy and Finance
Our Strange Attraction to Self-Destructive Behaviors, Choices and Incentives
April 19, 2018Self-destruction isn't a bug, it's a feature of our socio-economic system.
