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: Correction? Dow plunges 355 points, continues last week’s sell-off Bitcoin crashes to 7k, suffers one of the biggest crashes ever WATCH: Groundhog Day 2018 – Trump tweets, sex […]
Archives for February 2018
Sad! Bette Midler calls for violence against Rand Paul
Sad! Has-been actress Bette Midler is trying to gain relevance by advocating violence against a politician she disagrees with. Where have we seen that before? Kentucky Senator Rand Paul heroically delivered an hour-long speech on the Senate floor on Thursday night, lambasting Republicans, Democrats, the Federal Reserve, the military-industrial complex, and the neoconservatives. It was […]
6 random things for Friday (teen unemployment, peak oil, Spacex)
News Story of the Day: why can’t teenagers get jobs these days? Oh, that’s easy: a higher minimum wage. According to a new study by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, teen employment in the United States declined to its lowest level since 2000. Researchers found that the minimum wage was the primary reason, followed […]
Is This Week’s Mini-Crash Just the Beginning?
By: Brendan Brown According to the mainstream narratives, a state of inflation alert was the catalyst to the US stock market mini-crash of February 2 and February 5, 2018. This explanation echoes the run-up to the October 1987 stock market crash. On other occasions in history, inflation alerts have not had such an immediate effect, with […]
WATCH: Rand Paul slams Republicans over two-year $300 billion budget deal
Heroic. That is the only word to describe Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul’s performance on Thursday night. He took Congress, particularly the Republicans, to task over the two-year $300 billion budget deal that will more to the budget deficit and overall national debt. How can Republicans oppose former President Barack Obama’s deficits and then support […]