Last month, Amazon announced that it has temporarily suspended construction planning for a new 17-story building expected to house 7,000 employees. The move came as Seattle is voting to institute a jobs tax, a 26-cent levy on every hour by an employee at companies making annually $20 million in revenue. It is apparent that Amazon […]
Archives for May 2018
Uh, feminists? Ontario NDP candidates are 56% women
Feminists, social constructionists, and the left routinely talk about gender equality, whether in business or politics. To them, everything needs to be 50-50, that is unless it favors women. But then it defies their own logic of what equality really means. The province of Ontario is in election mode. With Premier Kathleen Wynne trying everything […]
Week in Review: May 7 to May 13
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: Warren Buffett: Bitcoin is ‘probably rat poison squared’ ‘Real socialism’ has been tried – and it’s been a disaster REPORT: U.S. consumers hoarding cash in checking accounts, average […]
The Utter Failure of America’s System of Indian Reservations
By: Ray Harvey There are 310 reservations in America and 562 federally recognized Native nations. There are 3 million Native Americans in the United States today, approximately 1 million of whom live on these reservations. The Bureau of Indian affairs (BIA) — founded on March 11, 1824, by John C. Calhoun — and the Bureau of […]
Tyler Cowen: ‘Marx is the one theorist who has not yet been refuted’
Tyler Cowen, who usually provides sound economic analysis, writes in a strange piece in Bloomberg: “But when it comes to China, Marx is the one theorist who has not yet been refuted. It’s the Western liberals and the Maoists who both have egg on their faces.” Wait, what? As we wrote in January 2014 (SEE: […]