What a surprise this has turned out to be: American consumers are spending less and saving more! According to ZeroHedge, for the first time since March, the national savings rate in the United States went up. Ostensibly, consumers are trying to live within their means as the savings rate jumped from 5.5 percent to 5.7 […]
Archives for August 2016
Gary Johnson backs away from carbon taxes, mandatory vaccines in New Hampshire
Gary Johnson has started to back away from the idea of a carbon tax, days after suggesting it would be a great free market approach and “very libertarian proposal” to tackle climate change (SEE: Gary Johnson now wants a supposed free-market carbon tax). The former New Mexico Governor and Libertarian Party nominee told a rally […]
Week in Review: Aug. 22 to Aug. 28
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: How Government Ruined American Sodas Alan Greenspan: ‘The very early stages are becoming evident’ of stagflation Report: Canadian millennials have delinquency rate of 11.7% Socialist Venezuela will fire […]
Clinton’s Pay-to-Play is the Natural Consequence of Big Government
By: Peter G. Klein Hillary Clinton has been taking heat for her relationship with the Clinton Foundation. Did individuals and firms making large donations to the Foundation, or paying large speaking or consulting fees to Bill Clinton, get preferred access to Ms. Clinton as Secretary of State? Is there a revolving door between the Clinton campaign […]
Donald Trump doesn’t want Gary Johnson or Jill Stein in the debates
If Donald Trump had his way, he would not have Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson or Green Party nominee Jill Stein in the three presidential debates this fall. Speaking in an interview with the Washington Post this week, the Republican nominee said he was against having either of the contenders enter the debates because he […]