Category: ECONOMIC
19 Things High School Students Should Be Told Before They Go To College
(Michael Snyder) Don’t you wish that someone had told you the truth before you went to college? Don’t you wish that someone had told you that college has become a giant money-making scam that is designed to drain as much money out of students and parents as possible?
Bank Runs Hit Greece, Withdraws Hit 700 Million Euros
( JeeYeon Park)Stocks faded in the final hour of trading Tuesday to finish lower following news that Greek depositors withdrew 700 million euros from the nation’s banking system and after Greece’s leaders failed to agree on a coalition government.
Is The U.S. Government Deliberately Suppressing Fuel Efficiency?
(Activist Post) Most people would logically believe that the U.S. government works for the citizens of America – after all, that is why we continue to pay taxes, right?
Corruption Accounts For As Much As $14 Dollars Out Of Every Tank Of Gas
(Lee Fang) You pay a hidden premium every time they fill up your gas tank. The prices are high at the gas station, but part of the price you pay is directly caused by commodity speculators. And you can thank lobbyists for why the government has been unable to do anything to solve the problem. [...]
Obama’s New Destructive Treaty,You Have Never Heard Of
(Economic Collapse) 69 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have sent Barack Obama a letter expressing their concern that a new international treaty currently being negotiated would essentially ban all “Buy American” laws. This new treaty is known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and it is going to be one of the biggest “free trade” [...]
China Buys 200 Acres Of Farmland In Milan Michigan
(Steve Bennish) The southeastern Michigan city of Milan, a 40-minute or so commute to Toledo or Detroit industrial centers, might become the new home for a 200-acre or larger “China City” that would house Chinese business people. Milan, a city of 6,000 surrounded by farm fields, is the locale for an unusual deal in the [...]
5 Ways Robots Are Outsourcing Humans in the Workforce
(Nicholas West) The outsourcing of human jobs as a side effect of globalization has arguably contributed to the current unemployment crisis. However, a growing trend sees humans done away with altogether, even in the low-wage countries where many American jobs have landed. Citing brutal working conditions, inefficiency and corporate bottom lines, human beings are gradually becoming [...]
Humans Traded Like Stock Via Birth Certificate Bond
(Press Core) Prior to the 17th century most money was commodity money, typically gold or silver. As the first public bank to “offer accounts not directly convertible to coin”, the Bank of Amsterdam established in 1609 is considered to be the first central bank. Since then central banks and their international bankers have replaced real [...]
Google And Facebook Might Completely Disappear In The Next 5 Years
(Eric Jackson) We think of Google and Facebook as Web gorillas. They’ll be around forever. Yet, with the rate that the tech world is moving these days, there are good reasons to think both might be gone completely in 5 – 8 years. Not bankrupt gone, but MySpace gone. And there’s some academic theory to back up [...]
Stephen King Warns Of A Kingsian Apocalyptic Scenario
(Stephen King) Chris Christie may be fat, but he ain’t Santa Claus. In fact, he seems unable to decide if he is New Jersey’s governor or its caporegime, and it may be a comment on the coarsening of American discourse that his brash rudeness is often taken for charm. In February, while discussing New Jersey’s newly [...]
