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: Defense Bill Coming This Week: A Boost for War and Tyranny Venezuela orders the seizure of paralyzed factories as population loots flour, chicken Dan ‘Mr. Potatoe’ Quayle endorses […]
Archives for May 2016
Video: Hillary Clinton definitely does not want to release her Wall Street speech transcripts
It’s amazing how the Democratic Party is going to nominate the weakest candidate in party history – yes, even weaker than Jimmy Carter. Hillary Clinton is facing scandal after scandal after scandal in this election, and it gets worse with each passing day. It’s true that Clinton is likely going to win the presidency in […]
Danish Central Bank Stumbles with Its Currency Peg to the Euro
By: Uffe Merrild Denmark has been mentioned a few times during the American election campaign by Democrats who favor larger government and high redistribution of income, but also pundits like Paul Krugman have written about Denmark in his October 19th column at The New York Times. Fortunately most of his fiscal and general economic Keynesian […]
5 random things for a Friday (gold to hit $1,400? Mises on prices, Trudeau’s ‘vicious assault’)
News Story of the Day: With Great Britain possibly exiting the European Union, Donald Trump inching his way into the White House and global economic slowdowns, some experts see gold reaching $1,400 an ounce sometime this year. The yellow metal has surged 20 percent so far this year, though it has hiccuped in the last […]
Video: How does the free market help space exploration?
If you ask any person on the street about space exploration, they’ll likely tell you that it is and should be a government function. However, as time goes by and NASA blunders its way through its massive budget, the private sector is doing an incredible job. The likes of Virgin Galactic and SpaceX will do […]