Labor

Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,

Authored by Gary Galles via The Mises Institute,

Americans have been fighting over health insurance reform for ages. For example, 25 years ago, in 1992, over 200 congressional health care bills were introduced.

Manufacturing's share of all U.S. employment fell to an all-time record low of 8.48% in May. While blame has been laid at the foot of globalization and technology, in fact it has been an almost non-stop decline since the end of World War 2.

So how do we 'make America great again'?

The answer seems simple to some in Washington - World War 3?

Submitted by Eric Hickman of Kessler Companies

We have begun to see the 'event-horizon' (Lance Roberts) of an economic slowdown in several indicators. Adding to that, and counter-intuitively perhaps, an unemployment rate this low (4.29%) is a signal to run-away from Stocks and run-to Treasuries.

Authored by Michael Hudson, via NakedCapitalism.com,

Students usually don’t think of themselves as a class. They seem “pre-class,” because they have not yet entered the labor force. They can only hope to become part of the middle class after they graduate. And that means becoming a wage earner – what impolitely is called the working class.