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: REPORT: Best, worst state economies in Trump’s America Ron Paul: Can homeschooling save children from Marxism, violence? Thanks Fight for $15: McDonald’s to add self-serve kiosks to 1k […]
Austrian Economics
Random Friday: $100 trillion wealth, Reagan on protectionism, #SaveLemonadeStands
News Story of the Day: the wealth of Americans is the most it has ever been in the nation’s history. For the first time since its inception, U.S. wealth has surpassed $100 trillion in the first quarter of 2018, up from $99.7 trillion in the previous quarter. Here are other highlights of the Federal Reserve’s […]
Many European Countries Have Lower Incomes Than Most U.S. States
By: Ryan McMaken Back in 2015, I wrote an article titled “If Sweden and Germany Became Us States, They Would Be Among the Poorest States.” It is one of the most widely shared — and also most widely disparaged — articles on mises.org. The article showed that contrary to many efforts to posit interventionist European […]
Hey, Trump, listen to Ronald Reagan on protectionist destruction
While it is true that former President Ronald Reagan was mostly all talk and no action, his words still had considerable meaning because he was a great communicator. He understood the principles of liberty, free markets, and peace, but it was too bad that he rarely put those ideas into practice. In August 1985, President […]
Ron Paul: Can homeschooling save children from Marxism, violence?
By: Ron Paul The February mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida prompted many parents to consider homeschooling. This is hardly surprising, as the misnamed federal “Gun-Free Schools” law leaves schoolchildren defenseless against mass shooters. Removing one’s children from government schools seems a rational response to school shootings. School shootings are not the […]