All Blog Posts Tagged 'Economy' (160)

Michael Snyder

The Economic Collapse

Sept 10, 2012

According to the Obama administration, the unemployment rate in the United States has been slowly coming down over the past couple of years.  But is that actually true?  When you take a closer look at the data you quickly realize that the real unemployment numbers are much worse than we…

Michael Snyder

Infowars.com

September 7, 2012

Are you better off today than you were four years ago?  This is a question that comes up nearly every election.  This year the Romney campaign has even created a Twitter hashtag for it: #AreYouBetterOff.  The Democrats are making lots of speeches claiming that we are better off, and the…

Michael Snyder

The Economic Collapse

Sept 5, 2012

Most people just assume that since things have always been a certain way that they will always be that way in the future.  Most people just have blind faith that the people running our government and our financial system know exactly what they are…

Paul Craig Roberts

Infowars.com

August 24, 2012

The United States has collapsed economically, socially, politically, legally, constitutionally, and environmentally. The country that exists today is not even a shell of the country into which I was born. In this article I will deal with America’s economic collapse. In subsequent articles, i will deal with other aspects of American collapse.

Economically, America has descended into poverty. As…

Source: Michael Snyder, BLN Contributing Writer

In the crazy times in which we live, it helps to expect the unexpected.  Sometimes you can think that you have it all…

The U.S. economy will sink into a deep recession and unemployment will jump back above 9 percent if Congress does not avoid a "fiscal cliff" waiting at the end of the year, according to a Congressional Budget Office study published Wednesday.

The report is the latest, possibly most dire, warning of the consequences of congressional inaction on more than $600 billion in spending…

WASHINGTON — The recession that ended three years ago this summer has been followed by the feeblest economic recovery since the Great Depression.

Since World War II, 10 U.S. recessions have been followed by a recovery that lasted at least three years. An Associated Press analysis shows that by just about any measure, the one that began in June 2009 is the weakest.

The ugliness…

Michael Snyder

The Economic Collapse

Aug 10, 2012

Why are Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and so many other countries experiencing depression-like conditions right now?

It is because they have too much debt.  Why do they have too much debt?  It is because they…

Michael Snyder

American Dream

Aug 9, 2012

There are more Americans dependent on the federal government than ever before in U.S. history. 

According to the Survey of Income and Program Participation conducted by the U.S. Census, well over …

Michael Snyder

Economic Collapse

Aug 8, 2012

How in the world is someone supposed to actually prepare for an economic collapse?  What should you do with your money?  How can you make sure that your family is going to be okay?

How can you prepare if your resources are…

Michael Snyder

The Economic Collapse

August 1, 2012

Do you want to know when the “economic collapse” is going to happen?  Just open up your eyes and take a look.  The “economic collapse” is already happening all around us. 

So many people talk about the…

Michael Snyder

The Economic Collapse

July 31, 2012

Are we rapidly approaching a moment of reckoning for the global financial system?  August is likely to be a relatively slow month as most of Europe is on vacation, but after that we will be moving into a “danger zone” where just about anything could happen.  Historically, a…

Martin Crutsinger

mbtmag.com

July 30, 2012

High unemployment isn’t going away — not as long as the economy grows as slowly as it did in the April-June quarter.

Weak consumer spending held growth to an annual rate of just…

Michael Snyder

The Economic Collapse

July 25, 2012

Every single day more Americans fall into poverty.  This should deeply alarm you no matter what political party you belong to and no matter what your personal economic philosophy is.  Right now, approximately 100 million Americans are either “poor” or “near…

By HOPE YEN 07/22/12 05:47 PM ET

WASHINGTON -- The ranks of America's poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net.

Census figures…

End of the American dream

Saturday, July 14, 2012

The United States once had safe, beautiful cities that were the envy of the entire world, but now many of them are degenerating into rotting, festering, crime-ridden hellholes.  All over the country there are communities where crime, drugs, gangs and human trafficking have gotten completely and totally out…

The problems that America is experiencing right now are not just confined to the field of economics.  The truth is that there are signs of deep decay wherever we look, and without question the United States is rotting from the…