Ever more official lies from the US government
Paul Craig Roberts
The false reality constructed for Americans parallels perfectly the false reality constructed by Big Brother in George Orwells’ dystopic novel 1984.
Authored by Robert Donachie via The Daily Signal,
Young men are working less and playing video games more, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research study published Monday.
Men ages 21 to 30 years old worked 12 percent fewer hours in 2015 than they did in 2000, the economists found. Around 15 percent of young men worked zero weeks in 2015, a rate nearly double that of 2000.
Authored by Alice Salles via TheAntiMedia.org,
Chicago, Illinois, has a chronic inflated state problem disguised as a schooling problem. In order to eradicate the symptom, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has decided to attack those who suffer from it and not the actual root of the problem — adopting a classic “more of the same” approach.
Another month, another increase in minimum wage jobs such as healthcare and education, which is hardly a surprise but this time an unexpected source of hiring emerged: the government.
After a poor March jobs report, followed by an April scorcher, then another debacle in May, the June payrolls report due at 8:30am will be... very much irrelevant, because as Citi pointed out earlier, the Fed is now data-independent and will keep hiking until financial conditions finally tighten (read: stocks drop). In other words, with the Fed on autopilot, feel free to skip this one - it hardly matters. For what it's worth, here are the consensus expectations for tomorrow's report: