MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ON EDGE: ONE PAYCHECK AWAY FROM FINANCIAL DISASTER
For nearly half of Americans in the workforce, financial disaster would occur from missing just ONE paycheck…
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French Incomes Place Below Some of America’s Poorest States — And the Protesters Know It
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 readingA Different Kind Of Wage Inflation Heralds This Cycle’s End
Late-cycle dynamics are now in play, and employers are finding creative ways to attract and retain workers…
Continue readingCharles Hugh Smith: Unrealistically Great Expectations, A Shrinking Pie
Our expectations have continued ever higher even as the pie is shrinking in more ways that one…
Continue readingGold & Silver Rise After Release Of The Spectacular Employment Situation Report For April, 2019
President Trump & Fed Head Powell, we have a problem, and it’s not about gold or silver but about Trump’s demands and current Fed policy…
Continue readingThe Accelerating Decay Of The Middle Class
Ironically, the top wage earners’ ample compensation allows them to avoid the poor-quality services they’ve designed for everyone below them…
Continue readingIf The Economy Is So Great, Then Why Are So Many Workers Miserable?
The mental well being of the American worker hit an all-time low in 2018. That’s a bit shocking considering the economy is booming and…
Continue readingFeedback Loop Of Doom: Creative People & Capital Abandoning Disfunctional, Unaffordable Cities
When the 4% who generate the jobs & tax revenues have had enough and leave, the effects are quickly felt. Political leaders who felt invincible suddenly…
Continue readingThe Sauds, The Petro-Dollar, Gold, And Income Inequality
What 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 readingWe Give Up! The Fed Is “Resigned” To Blowing Bubbles
After raising rates and getting slapped around by the markets last year, the Fed now appears to accept that future monetary policy can only be easy…
Continue reading2019 Is Starting To Look Like The Oil Crisis And Stagflation Of The 1970s
The U.S. hasn’t had a serious bout with stagflation in quite a while, but it appears that we may be moving in that direction…
Continue readingIt’s 2016 All Over Again, Or Is It?
In 2016, growing weakness in the global economy and wobbling financial markets caused the world’s central banks to absolutely freak out…
Continue readingHousing Starts Collapse With The Worst Annual Drop Since 2011
Builders remain wary even as lower mortgage rates and steady wage gains offer support to consumers. Here’s a look a the ‘unexpected tumble’…
Continue readingBernie Sanders Tells America: Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps
We can see from Sanders’s own success in selling books that inequality is not necessarily a result of the wealthy exploiting the poor…
Continue readingMinimum Wage Hike DISASTER! The Truth You’re Not Being Told
This misconception perpetuates the very thing creating the problem in the first place. Mass centralization and control of the populace and it works…
Continue readingBlind Faith Vs The Bottom Line That The Facts Matter
There is more than a little “let them eat brioche” in the blind faith that the masses’ patience for pillage is infinite…
Continue readingAnother Nail In The US Economy’s Coffin: Consumer Confidence Plunges In March
The MSM was shocked with the plunge in consumer confidence, though it should really come as no surprise. Here’s why, and what it means for the economy…
Continue readingCash For Clunkers: Yet Another Way Government Increased The Cost Of Living
The interventionist program was a massive policy failure for several very predictable reasons…
Continue readingThe DISASTER Of Minimum Wage Hikes! – Poverty And Unemployment SKYROCKET
There is unmitigated disaster going on in the United States right now with the $15/hour minimum wage hike laws. Here are the details…
Continue readingThe Source Of The Killer Price Inflation: Services
The soaring cost of services is driven by a number of factors…
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