It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would…
Great Recession
The great American middle class has become an anxious class – and it’s in revolt. Before I explain how that revolt is playing out, you…
Gerald Celente forecasts: When the final numbers are tabulated, overall holiday sales will trend lower for 2015 and the overall retail sector will grow weaker…
The American student loan crisis is often seen as a problem of profligacy and predation. Wasteful colleges raise tuition every year, we are told, even…
The defeat of the Harvard University debate team by a team from the Eastern New York Correctional Facility in the Catskills elucidates a truth known…
Denying women full participation in the global economy is costly.McKinsey & Co. has now calculated by just how much. Full gender equality would add 26…
With all eyes glued to Friday's payrolls report, we thought it worth reiterating some 'facts' about US employment data. As ECRI notes, the sustained decline…
It’s entertaining to watch and to read reports in the corporate media about the current stock market decline, which over the course of the last…
Three weeks ago, when we last looked at the collapse in trade along what may be the most trafficked route involving China, i.e., from Asia to Northern…
Discriminatory housing, zoning, and other policy choices are driving the dramatic rise of racialized poverty and segregation across the United States, with the number of…
From any perspective other than the robust prosperity of the 1%, San Francisco is a city in crisis. In the past five years, reported evictions…
Will there be a financial collapse in the United States before the end of 2015? An increasing number of respected financial experts are now warning…