The Wednesday morning analysis of the second presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney has all been about debate moderator Candy Crowley, the feistiness of both candidates and who the winner was. One debate moment is hardly being touched upon, except in the Daily Caller and here at Economic Collapse News. […]
Archives for October 2012
The Best of Milton Friedman
This morning, I was browsing around my YouTube page for work and I came across LibertyPen‘s latest playlist that feature’s 100 videos of the great economist from the Chicago School Mr. Milton Friedman. For some reason, Friedman doesn’t get his proper accolades in the freedom movement as most libertarians, Ron Paul supporters and Austrian Theorists […]
U.S. retail sales up 1.1 percent, household debt highest since 2008
The United States Department of Commerce announced Monday that retail sales saw the highest climb in close to two years. The respective gains suggested that household spending assisted in the economic growth in the last quarter. According to census data published by the Commerce Department, retail and food services for September totaled $412.9 billion, which […]
Why a Democratic or Republican administration’s foreign policy would further cripple U.S. economy
This week, Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Vice President Nominee Paul Ryan went head-to-head in the only (uneventful) vice presidential debate of the campaign season. As the vice president annoyed much of the viewing public with his constant smiling and laughing and Ryan just sitting there taking the abuse, the two men talked a […]
Visualizing America’s decline in economic freedom
As Economic Collapse News reported last month, the United States has fallen to number eighteen in a report that ranks economic freedom around the world. The below infographic gives an excellent graphical representation of the reasons for this decline. [Click on image to enlarge] Source: http://www.onlinebusinessdegree.org/