Over the past couple of years, Hillary Clinton has lambasted companies for taking advantage of interns and not paying them a wage or a salary. She argued this was unfair treatment of the next generation, and urged businesses to start paying their interns. “Businesses have taken advantage of unpaid internships to an extent that it […]
Archives for August 2015
Video shows sad footage of Venezuela’s food crisis
Venezuela’s food crisis persists. As long as the Maduro regime continues with price controls, production quotas, debasement of the bolivar and other socialist/militaristic policies of its economy, Venezuelans will continue to starve. In other words, this is a government-induced famine. This video from Operacion Libertad Venezuela provides incredible footage of the Latin American country’s food […]
Ron Paul says Federal Reserve won’t raise interest rates in 2015
Over the next several weeks, stock markets and financial analysts will be debating as to whether or not the Federal Reserve and Chair Janet Yellen will raise interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade. Polls of economists say it’s going to happen this year, while other observers say the United States central […]
Edward Snowden: ‘Bitcoin by itself is flawed’
Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who leaked classified information from the United States National Security Agency (NSA) about its spying programs, answered questions at the Internet Engineering Task Force 93 meeting. In one particular part of the Q&A session, Snowden was asked about the peer-to-peer decentralized digital currency bitcoin, which has fallen from grace […]
Week in Review: Aug. 10 to Aug. 16
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: Video: ‘Serfdom USA’ should be campaign song for Clinton, Bush and Trump NYC voters say Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to cap Uber motivated by political donations from […]