In case you missed any of this week’s articles, here is a round-up of some of the most read pieces written by the Economic Collapse News staff: Should the workforce transition to a three-day work week? Spain introduces a 0.03% tax on all bank account deposits; is the U.S. next? (hot) Russia’s gold reserves increase […]
Archives for July 2014
Alan Greenspan: Federal Reserve can’t prevent market bubbles, blames human nature
What happened to Alan Greenspan? Before helming the Federal Reserve System, Greenspan was an objectivist, a student of Ayn Rand, a proponent of sound money and the Gold Standard and a critic of central economic planning. When he entered the Fed, he became obsessed with bubbles, manipulating markets, aiding Wall Street and hurting the dollar. […]
Review: Examining the U.S. economy’s ‘Great Deformation’ with David Stockman
The Great Recession, economic collapse, financial crisis or dilapidation of a state – whatever you want to call it – has opened up the eyes of many. Millions of Americans have finally come to the realization that the government, the Federal Reserve and Wall Street have fleeced the American people, stripped the country of its […]
Video: WWII did not end the Great Depression
Last month, the Corbett Report posted a video entitled “No, WWII Did Not End The Great Depression.” The near eight-minute video provides an insightful look into how the war between the West and Nazi Germany didn’t obliterate the Great Depression and incite tremendous economic growth, but rather it was the end of the Second World […]
Chart: Food prices have soared since Sept. 2013
For years now, government statisticians, Keynesian economists and Federal Reserve officials have continually dismissed any suggestions that United States consumers are suffering from rapid price inflation, something that they say is non-existent because they cherry pick the data. Perhaps this chart compiled by The Federalist using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will […]