Jim Clifton | Gallup | 2 Feb 2015 Here’s something that many Americans — including some of the smartest and most educated among us — don’t know: The official unemployment rate, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, is extremely misleading. Right now, we’re hearing much celebrating from the media, the White House and…
GWPF | 15 Jan 2015 Cheaper Oil Reduces Chances Of Meaningful UN Climate Agreement In a twist of irony, the very country green activists are trying to “save” from global warming has turned on them for allegedly comprising its economic security. The Indian government has cracked down of Greenpeace and other U.S. environmental groups for…
Zems | Live Journal- Fort Russ | 16 Dec 2014 Only the lazy are not writing about this subject today. But everyone for some reason is looking in the wrong direction. Let me explain: – Our country has a stock of dollars – The currency of our country – roubles – is held by other countries…
Pepe Esocbar | RT | 11 Nov 2014 There’s hardly a more graphic illustration of where the multipolar world is going than what just happened at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing. Take a very good look at the official photos. This is all about positioning – and this being China, pregnant with…
by Lew Rockwell | LewRockwell.com | November 11, 2014 Society can run itself without central direction by a shadowy elite The term “anarcho-capitalism” has, we might say, rather an arresting quality. But while the term itself may jolt the newcomer, the ideas it embodies are compelling and attractive, and represent the culmination of a…
by Frank Shostak | Mises.org | November 10, 2014 This type of information is of little use to entrepreneurs It is generally held that for an economist to be able to assess the state of the economy, he requires macroeconomic indicators which will tell him what is going on. The question that arises is…
Paul Craig Roberts | 10 Nov 2014 Just as the German media has destroyed its credibility with lies, the US government is consistently destroying Washington’s credibility both with its own citizens and the rest of the world. Russia and China, the other two significant nuclear powers, no longer believe anything Washington says or any agreement…
RT | 10 Oct 2014 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_gL5hgSmQg?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] Every week Max Keiser looks at all the scandal behind the financial news headlines. In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert host a two-part interview with award-winning film and television actor Alec Baldwin and comedian, actor, author and host of the Trews, Russell…
The Telegraph 13 July 2014 Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The world economy is just as vulnerable to a financial crisis as it was in 2007, with the added danger that debt ratios are now far higher and emerging markets have been drawn into the fire as well, the Bank for International Settlements has warned. Jaime Caruana, head…
by George Washington’s blog | July 2, 2014 Preface: Two weeks ago, well-known economist Tyler Cowen (a professor at George Mason University) argued in the New York Times that wars – especially “major wars” – are good for the economy. Cowen joins extremely influential economists like Paul Krugman and Martin Feldstein – and various talking heads – in promoting this idea. Also, many congressmen assume…