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: When Government Acts, Unintended Consequences Follow Uh oh: Donald Trump wants to increase military spending Trump budget won’t include cuts to Social Security despite $11.4 trillion shortfall David […]
Archives for March 2017
Study: 88% of media coverage of Donald Trump’s first 30 days ‘hostile’
Donald Trump has only been president of the United States for about a month, but the way the media have covered the administration day and night it seems like he has been in office for seven years. According to a new study, close to 90 percent of the media’s coverage of the Trump administration was […]
Fake news? MSM has headed the ‘opinion-molding class’ for years
By: Peter Klein “Fake news” emerged as a dominant theme of the 2016 US presidential election campaign and has been in the public eye ever since. To now-president Trump, the term refers to CNN, the New York Times, and other outlets that portray him unfavorably; to Democrats, it means politically incorrect websites, blogs, and social media accounts. […]
6 random things for Friday (bitcoin beats gold, Walt Williams on schools, Trump and weed)
News Story of the Day: since the global economic collapse, financial institutions have been paid more than $321 billion in fines, says the Boston Consulting Group, reports Reuters. Because governments, bureaucrats and regulators have ramped up their investigations and scrutiny, banks have forked over billions of dollars in fines. According to the study, North American […]
How capitalism freed Victorian women (video)
Between the 1830s and the 1920s, women were controlled and dominated by their husbands and fathers. This was a true patriarchal society: women were there just to have children and serve their husbands. Thanks to capitalism, women were eventually freed thanks to the great number of opportunities, primarily jobs, independence and money during the industrial […]