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: Yikes: Hillary Clinton thinks the minimum wage doesn’t kill jobs Report shows a quarter of Americans in their prime working years (25 to 54) are unemployed LOL: Your […]
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Economics: It’s Simpler Than You Think
By: David Gordon [David Gordon reviews John Tamny’s new book, Popular Economics. This article first appeared in the March–April issue of The Austrian.] In the view of John Tamny — an editor at Forbes and RealClearMarkets — economics as it is usually studied and taught in universities is unnecessarily complicated. The basic truths of economics are simple […]
5 random things for a Friday (Trudeau gives MPs a pay raise, price of gold since ’68, lessons from Cuba)
News Story of the Day: As most of the population in Canada struggles, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau decided to give everyone a raise. PM Selfie himself has approved giving Members of Parliament and Canadian Senators a pay increase of $3,000 in their salary starting Friday. Cabinet ministers and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will receive a […]
Libertarians for Donald Trump? 5 reasons libertarians can’t support Trump
Donald Trump is good on a few things, and terrible on most issues. At least from a libertarian perspective. The can-do attitude of Trump, something Friedrich Hayek warned in “Road to Serfdom,” is one of the many things that libertarians should be cautious of. Last year, some libertarians were enthusiastic when Trump said he liked […]
Chinese investors are buying U.S. assets like the Japanese did in the 1980s
It’s the Asian buying-spree of the 1980s all over again! In the first quarter of this year, Chinese investors have completed around $41 billion worth of United States deals, which is close to double the amount for all of 2015. That’s an astounding amount. What’s even more interesting is that many of these mergers and […]