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Jeff Nielson: Regular readers of my work know that I have been outlining (and warning people about) two potential economic scenarios; as the West’s terminally-ill economies lurch towards their final collapse. These hollowed-out, debt-saturated economies Read more…
Michael Snyder: If you went out and took a poll of the American people on July 4th (Independence Day) and asked them if they are free, what would the results look like? Of course the results would be overwhelmingly lopsided. Most Americans believe Read more…
Michael Snyder: How is money created? If you ask average people on the street this question, most of them have absolutely no idea. This is rather odd, because Read more…
Jeff Nielson: Back in 2005, even prior to being named Chairman of the Federal Reserve, B.S. Bernanke uttered the first of his Three Great Lies: the U.S. had a “Goldilocks economy”; where markets would keep going higher and higher forever, and the dreaded “R” word (recession) Read more…
Michael Snyder: Warren Buffett once said that derivatives are “financial weapons of mass destruction”, and that statement is more true today than it ever has been before. Read more…
Michael Snyder: Why isn’t the U.S. economy in a depression right now? The number one reason is because the federal government has stolen more than five trillion dollars Read more…
Jeff Nielson: While some may argue my criticism of the insipid mainstream media is too extreme, my rebuttal is simple: “don’t shoot the messenger.” It’s not simply that these media drones are wrong consistently – indeed, almost unfailingly – but in many instances their reporting on issues is literally 180 degrees Read more…
Michael Snyder: Debt is a “soft” form of slavery. In America today, it is not legal to bind people up with chains and force them to work for you, but that doesn’t mean that there are not millions upon millions Read more…
Michael Snyder: Is there one thing that Tony Robbins, Ron Paul and Ben Bernanke can all agree on? Yes, there actually is. Recently they have all come forward with warnings that the national debt crisis Read more…
Michael Snyder: Most Americans have no idea how much economic trouble is heading our way. Most of them just assume that everything will eventually “return to normal” just like it always has before and Read more…
Michael Snyder: Is the U.S. economy going to be okay? Well, if the only source you listened to was the mainstream media, you would be left with the distinct impression that the U.S. economy is heading Read more…
Michael Snyder: The U.S. dollar (NYSEARCA:UUP) has probably been the closest thing to a true global currency that the world has ever seen. For decades, the use of the U.S. dollar has been absolutely dominant in international trade. This has had tremendous benefits for the U.S. financial system and for U.S. Read more…
Jeff Nielson: Every month, the U.S. propaganda machine plays the same game in the housing sector. It announces “new home starts”. Then a few days later it announces “new home sales”. But it never, ever, ever talks about the two numbers in the same news item. Read more…
Michael Snyder: Ben Bernanke has decided that he needs to teach all of us why the Federal Reserve is good for America and about why the gold standard is bad. On Tuesday, Bernanke delivered the first of four planned lectures to a group of students at George Washington University. But that lecture was not Read more…
Michael Snyder: Are you better off today than you were four years ago? If not, then you are just like most other Americans. According to a CBS News/New York Times poll that was released a few days Read more…
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