How Personal Health Impacts Consumer Spending And Work Ethic
Personal health isn’t the fist thing a person correlates to economic well-being, but the correlation is more significant than you might think…
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Americans Had To Borrow $88 Billion Last Year In Order To Pay For Medical Bills
Many families must borrow money when confronted with large medical expenses, and the scale at which this is happening is absolutely stunning…
Continue readingWhat Killed The American Middle Class?
Rounding up the usual suspects won’t restore a vibrant middle class…
Continue readingUNSUSTAINABLE: Medical Bills Cause Two-Thirds Of All US Bankruptcies
Big Pharma is making people sicker, and the middle class, NOT the poor, is who’s being wiped out by this modern medicine scam…
Continue readingCould Stocks Rally Even As Parts Of The Economy Are Recessionary?
It’s not yet clear that the stock market swoon is predictive or merely a panic attack triggered by a loss of meds…
Continue readingIs This Really “The Most Important Election Of Our Lives” Or Just Another Distraction?
The problem isn’t polarization, rather, neither flavor of the status quo is actually solving any of the nation’s most pressing system problems. Here’s more…
Continue readingROTTING BIG APPLE: New York City Joins The ‘Imminent Bankruptcy’ Club`
NYC has been quietly accumulating unfunded liabilities that have now thrust the city into the “imminent bankruptcy” club. Here’s John Rubino to explain…
Continue readingThe Coming Inflation Threat: Why We Are About To Feel The Burn Of Price Inflation Even More
The damage has been done, and there’s no way to put the financialization of the past decade back in the bottle. Here’s what it means for the economy…
Continue readingThe Death Of The Middle Class: Just How Many Households Qualify As Middle Class?
Even when using a bare-bones budget of what it realistically costs to qualify as middle-class in America, the income needed is rather eye-opening…
Continue readingMedicare For All? Poll Discovers 70 Percent Of Americans Want Single-Payer Healthcare
Should the government provide healthcare for all? A high percentage of Democrats were in favor, and now a majority of Republicans are too. Here’s more…
Continue readingHow Do Systems And Nations Fail? Look To US Education & Healthcare For Insight
When systems intended to benefit all only benefit a few, they fail, and that’s exactly the point where education and healthcare find themselves…
Continue readingPfizer Raised Prices On 100 Drugs After ‘Price Modifications’ Took Effect On July 1st 2018
For the second time this year, the largest drug company in the US has raised prices on its drugs. Here’s the details…
Continue readingTrump Officials Meet With Big Pharma To Negotiate ‘Voluntary’ Drug Price Reductions – Big Pharma Laughs It Off
“even though Donald Trump and his administration are at least trying to bring down costs of pharmaceutical drugs, the fact of the matter is that…”
Continue readingHyperinflation Watch: The Cost Of Healthcare For An American Family Of Four For One Year
So far our Hyperinflation Watch series has been mainly one-offs and outliers, but all of the sudden, it just got real. Here’s the details…
Continue readingAmerica’s Long Term Challenge: The Erosion Of The Middle Class
“inflation has outpaced wage increases by 66% since 1980. This means that the average American salary buys…”
Continue readingU.S. Healthcare Isn’t Broken – It’s Fixed (As In Rigged)
“If you want to understand why the U.S. healthcare system is bankrupt, financially, morally and politically, then start with…”
Continue readingJust How Bad Has Obamacare Become? Nearly Half Of All Americans Don’t Go To The Doctor Anymore
“has become such a monumental failure that nearly half of Americans have stopped going to their doctors even when they’re sick…” Here’s the details…
Continue readingUK Citizens Offered £1K/Month To Bed And Care For Elderly Hospital Patients
“Bed Blocking” is leading to a shortage of hospital beds in the UK, so now citizens are being offered cold hard fiat to open their homes and provide care…
Continue readingDollar Nosedives After Inflation Disappoints For 5th Month In A Row
MSM upset that prices are not raising fast enough!
Continue readingHow Healthcare Is Dooming the U.S. Economy (in Three Charts)
As the 3 charts below clearly demonstrate, U.S. healthcare will bankrupt the nation and doom it to permanent stagnation and recession.
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