By Jp Cortez A major national precious metals dealer announced today the creation of the first gold-backed scholarship fund to support outstanding students who understand that gold is money and can articulate the failures of the inflation-creating Federal Reserve System. Money Metals Exchange, a national precious metals dealer recently ranked “Best in the USA,” teamed […]
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Week in Review: Aug. 15 to Aug. 21
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: Restoring Gold and Silver as Legal Tender before the Monetary Crisis Arrives Milwaukee Riots: Rich people don’t give us money so we have to be violent German Bundesbank […]
Tom Woods helps expose the myth of Nordic Socialism
Socialists everywhere and the likes of Bernie Sanders have constantly alluded to Finland, Sweden and Denmark has champions of Democratic Socialism. They have all claimed that these states are the best examples of how socialism can work, and that the United States must become like them. But are these models of socialism really successful? Not […]
5 random things for Friday (transgendered bathroom blackmail, oil is bull, does black success matter?)
News Story of the Day: so you have two of the worst candidates running for United States President, you have ISIS killing everyone, you have failing government schools and you have bureaucrats sucking the taxpayers dry, but apparently the biggest issue in the country is… a transgendered washroom? Oy vey. Target announced that it would […]
Unable to pay for soaring funeral costs, Americans donating their dead bodies to medical schools
In the United States, the funeral industry generates approximately $20 billion a year in revenues. For the typical American, the average funeral costs between $8,000 and $10,000, which includes the casket ($2,300), ceremony ($1,000), headstone ($2,000) and the list goes on. Now, let’s ask a simple question: who has this much money laying around for […]