By Michael Snyder Did you know that almost 70 percent of the U.S. population is essentially living paycheck to paycheck? As you will see below, a brand new survey has found that 69 percent of all Americans have less than $1,000 in savings. Of course one of the primary reasons for this is that most […]
Rogers Holdings Chairman Jim Rogers is certain that the U.S. economy will be in recession in the next 12 months. During an interview on Bloomberg TV with Guy Johnson, the famous investor said that there was a 100 percent probability that the U.S. economy would be in a downturn within one year. “It’s been seven years, eight […]
by The Conservative Papers | October 30, 2015 Sen. Cruz: The Budget Deal Is a Corrupt Betrayal of the American People Senator Ted Cruz is becoming more and more impressive by the day. The next day after winning the CNBC Republican Presidential Debate in Colorado with the line of the night, he traveled to Washington DC […]
by Andrew C. McCarthy | April 18, 2015 4:00 AM As the Framers knew, we are unlikely to outgrow human nature. So what happens when we decide we’ve outgrown a Constitution designed to protect us from human nature’s foibles? The question arises, yet again, thanks to Senator Bob Corker. The Tennessee Republican, chairman of the Foreign Relations […]
This graphic originally appeared at Visual Capitalist Two weeks ago, Visualcapitalist published a post showing the world economy in one visualization. In the corresponding comments section, a user asked us if we could put together a similar visualization but instead honing in on world debt. Today’s visualization breaks down $59.7 trillion of world debt by country, as well as […]
As many Americans enter into retirement they are realizing one unfortunate thing. The new retirement plan is no retirement at all. Over the last few decades Americans were promised the idea of a comfortable retirement yet none of this has materialized because of financial swindling and a real estate bubble that will go down in the […]
The so-called “trustees” of the social security system issued their annual report last week and the stenographers of the financial press dutifully reported that the day of reckoning when the trust funds run dry has been put off another year—-until 2034. So take a breath and kick the can. That’s five Presidential elections away! Except […]
By Michael Snyder Could you live without debt? Most Americans say that they cannot. According to a brand new Pew survey, approximately 7 out of every 10 Americans believe that “debt is a necessity in their lives”, and approximately 8 out of every 10 Americans actually have debt right now. Most of us like to […]
By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh While Americans are eagerly signing petitions to ban the American flag on the heels of Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam leader call to ban the Stars and Stripes “due to its links to racism” or are busily banning anything attached in any way to the Confederate flag and our history, […]
