If we compare France to individual US states, we find that France’s disposable income may rank below every US state except Louisiana. Here’s more…
Continue readingOur expectations have continued ever higher even as the pie is shrinking in more ways that one…
Continue readingIronically, the top wage earners’ ample compensation allows them to avoid the poor-quality services they’ve designed for everyone below them…
Continue readingWhat do the Sauds, the Petro-dollar, gold, and income inequality have to do with each other, with the US, and with Trump? Craig Hemke explains…
Continue readingHedge fund titan Ray Dalio is just the latest billionaire to call for government to save us from guys like him, but his call is one ugly mess. Here’s why…
Continue readingEveryone now knows that the only meaningful goal of Fed policy is propping up the world’s greatest credit-asset bubble…
Continue readingJohn says the coming political tsunami will be a bit of French Revolution-style poetic justice for global aristocracy. Here’s why…
Continue readingRounding up the usual suspects won’t restore a vibrant middle class…
Continue readingWe’re told that we ought to be subsidizing higher education even more, but you really don’t need a $200,000 degree. Here’s why…
Continue readingThe only way to achieve sustainable increases in earnings and standards of living—is to allow markets to work…
Continue readingImagine what it would be like for a group of average Americans from 1919 to suddenly be transported to our time, and then hit with these 35 facts…
Continue readingAs credit-asset bubbles pop, the dominoes start falling. The economy is far more precarious than the surface boom and bubbles suggest…
Continue readingWealth is flowing to those who earn money from their human capital and enterprise…
Continue reading“These are the new socialist candidates for the presidency who all promise to take your money and do with it what they see fit.”
Continue readingOne of the more persistent myths about capitalism is that wealth and resources are “wasted” when spent on luxuries…
Continue readingJust in case you missed what’s going on in France: The status quo in Europe is doomed…
Continue readingCapital garners the gains, and labor’s share continues eroding. That’s the story of the 21st century…
Continue readingThe middle class has been steadily shrinking, but most Americans still believe that they are a part of it. Millions of them are dead wrong. Here’s why…
Continue readingThe value of declaring the entire nation in or out of recession is limited, especially if the top 10% never even feels it. Here’s more…
Continue readingThere’s mounting evidence that the Age of American Exceptionalism is grinding to an end. Charles and Chris Martenson discuss the evidence…
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