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: WRITE A CHECK: Warren Buffett demands higher taxes, supports Bloomberg in 2020 U.S. Mint’s silver supply problem AOC’s Green New Deal estimated to cost $93 trillion GOP trying […]
Austrian Economics
Let’s just call the death tax what it is: the left’s envy tax
By: Andrew Moran The death tax is a symbol of everything wrong with politics and leftism. A levy on inheritance taps into the very worst in voters’ dispositions, from feeling entitled to someone else’s property to stewing in envy that somebody else will have it better than you do. While it will not be a hill to […]
Random Friday: C-notes, slavery, Tulsi Gabbard on Tucker Carlson
News Story of the Day: This is definitely something that the war on cash advocates will use to justify abolishing cash. According to the Federal Reserve and Deutsche Bank, the number of C-notes ($100 banknotes) in circulation has doubled over the last decade, and they now exceed $1 bills. Economists contend that it is because people […]
SUGAR HIGH: Sweetheart welfare for the rich
Oil and gas, green energy, and Wall Street – these industries get flack for receiving corporate welfare. But what about sugar? This is America’s dirty little secret: Big Sugar gets plenty of money from taxpayers. John Stossel takes a look at the sweetheart deal that sugar gets every year:
A look at the social victimhood economy
By: Jeff Charles The case of Jussie Smollett is looking more and more like a fake hate crime. As more information is revealed, it has become increasingly difficult to believe his story of being attacked at 2 a.m. in Chicago by Trump supporters. While the public is not yet certain that the actor orchestrated the entire […]