It has been a while since we have seen predictions of a meteoric rise of precious metals. Gold and silver are surging right now because of geopolitical tensions and several other factors, and gold is certainly one of the best performing assets this year so far. But one financial expert sees the yellow metal going […]
Archives for September 2017
Week in Review: August 28 to September 3
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: Has YouTube started censoring Ron Paul? Winning! Amazon slashes Whole Food prices by as much as 43% Rule of thumb for American voters: never trust a Republican Peter […]
Who is leading the autonomous driving patent field?
Autonomous driving and vehicles will be a massive market in the coming years – that is, if the government doesn’t prevent its growth, which is already occurring around the world. Whoever enters now at the ground floor, with many, many patents, will be one of the leaders in this field, making hundreds of billions of […]
Hurricane Harvey: Thanks to Markets, Houston’s Disaster Isn’t as Bad as it Might Have Been
By: Christopher Westley A political economy of natural disasters does not exactly exist yet. There are no classes in it that I know of. A dearth of writing attempts to define it. Yet, some of its lessons cry out following Hurricane Harvey’s wall banger into the coast of Texas. One is the role of capital formation […]
6 random things for Friday (Minnesota in a ‘crisis’, 1 trillion pictures, Thomas Sowell on Antifa/BLM)
News Story of the Day: Minnesota’s state pension debt is in a crisis right now. In fact, it’s crisis is coming with a $33.4 billion price-tag, or $6,000 for each Minnesota resident. According to Bloomberg, the state has just 53 percent of what it needs to cover benefits for government workers and retirees, which is […]