Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
When people are dependent on the government they are much easier to control.
We are often told that we are not “compassionate” when we object to the endless expansion of government social programs, but that is not how the debate should be framed.
Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com,
Welcome to the witching month when America’s entropy-fueled death-wish expresses itself with as much Halloween jollity and merriment as the old Christmas spirit of yore.
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,
As the stock market hits all-time highs in its 2nd longest bull market run in history, the lift of asset prices has surely lifted the economic prosperity of all. Right?
Not really.
New reports from the Hamilton Project and The Federal Reserve show the real problems facing Americans today.
While central banks step away from the spotlight, as does Asian data and markets with China and South Korea both taking a weeklong break, there will be a bevy of central bank speakers to "explain" what is going on while it will be a busy week data wise, with the US employment trade balance report due this week, PMI and retail sales in Euro area, as well as PMI and house prices in UK. The key central bank events include the Australia RBA board meeting, ECB minutes,Yellen and Fed member speeches. In Emerging Markets, there are monetary policy meetings in India, Poland and Romania.
For a new generation of nationalists (by which they clearly imply tin-foil-hat wearing, nazi-sympathizing, probably-drug-taking, conspiracy-theory-loving wonks), The FT's Gideon Rachman explains - for those not willing to think for themselves, or follow the money, that the billionaire investor has become the perfect villain...
George Soros, the billionaire investor and philanthropist, has had a busy year.