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: Nouriel Roubini says ‘everybody is a loser’ in a trade war – there’s more to it Robert Wenzel talks private property society theory and more Ron Paul: The […]
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Random Friday: millennials in the workforce, modern art, Paul grills Pompeo
News Story of the Day: depending on your praise or lamentations on millennials, this may either be good news or bad news. According to a new study by the Pew Research Center, using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, more than one-third (35 percent) of labor force participants are millennials, which makes them the largest […]
WAR ON CASH: Why big government, big tech, big business hate cash
By: Brendan Brown Big government, big banks, and big tech are now all on the same side in the war against cash. Government — we all know about already. Big banks — they do not want to see the users of cash in retail transactions (for goods and services) getting keener prices than the users of their electronic […]
Ron Paul: Donald Trump should stop ‘blaming a free market and capitalism’
Is President Donald Trump playing a game of 4D underwater, blindfolded, handcuffed, chess, backgammon, and chess when it comes to the trade file? That’s what many of his supporters think, and the way China is suddenly behaving in the last 24 hours, one could make an argument for that. That said, if tariffs are still […]
WATCH: The greatest video on capitalism you will watch this year
Senator Bernie Sanders recently had an online panel with Senator Elizabeth Warren and Michael Moore about income inequality. They perpetuated the typical leftist myths: the rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poor, capitalism is evil, and we need more government. Yada, yada, yada. But is this even accurate? Hardly. It’s just one […]