ECONOMY

Popular Seattle “Safe Space” Waffle Shop Forced To Close Due To Inflation And New $20 Minimum Wage
A waffle shop in Seattle is being forced to close down over the city’s new $20 per hour minimum wage law, according to a new report by the New York Post. The rise in inflation has also made it difficult for small businesses like this to survive. The owner of Bebop Waffle […]

Trump’s Plan to End Currency War 3.0
James Rickards, The Daily Reckoning, provides insights into the Trump currency plan. There has been a lot reported in recent days about the return of currency wars. With Trump 2.0 about to begin, let’s review his last term and what to expect in the second. Trump badly bungled his transition […]

Ability to Read, Write, or Do Math Is No Longer Required to Teach in New Jersey
Mike Shedlock, MishTalk, discusses the new Teacher Requirements. Teachers’ unions prevail in New Jersey. Kids will suffer. Literacy Not Requited to Teach CampusSafety reports New Jersey Teachers No Longer Required to Pass Basic Literacy Test New Jersey Democratic Governor Phil Murphy passed Act 1669 as part of the state’s 2025 budget […]

The System’s Self-Destruct Sequence Cannot Be Turned Off
The artificial hill of pottery shards is puny and localized; the consequences of our self-destructing system will bring down the system in ways the system is completely blind to. Charles Hugh Smith, Substack We’re all familiar with the plot device of the self-destruct sequence counting down while our hero / […]

44 Statistics From 2024 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
Michael Snyder, The Most Important News, brings you the latest 2024 statistics. 2024 was definitely one of the wildest years that any of us have ever experienced. During the past 12 months, Donald Trump was convicted by a New York jury, he was almost assassinated, he won the presidential election, and he […]

How My 2024 Predictions Went – And Some Predictions for 2025
Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter The Burning Platform. This post includes a 2024 predictions review and looks ahead to what might happen in 2025. In my January 1, 2024, column entitled “Top Twenty Terrible Predictions for 2024,” I noted that, “Every year, I offer you my predictions for the coming trip […]

Doug Casey’s Top Prediction for 2025
Doug Casey, International Man International Man: Looking at the intersection of finance, economics, politics, and culture, what is your most significant prediction for 2025? What major event or trend should people prepare for that most are currently overlooking? Doug Casey: The trends that appeared, seemingly against all odds, in 2024 are going to […]

Read Between the Lies: A Pattern Recognition Guide
Josh Stylman Brownstone Institute When Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence, announced during Event 201’s pandemic drill in 2019 that they would “flood the zone with trusted sources,” few understood this preview of coordinated narrative control. Within months, we watched it unfold in real time—unified messaging across all platforms, suppression of dissent, and […]

Unless Something Changes, 4 Years From Now We Will Be 51 Trillion Dollars In Debt
Michael Snyder The U.S. government is currently constructing the most colossal monument in the history of the world. It is a monument of debt, and we will forever be remembered as the nation that piled up far more debt than anyone else ever did. For decades, this generation has been […]
21 Quotes About Central Banking That Show Why The Federal Reserve Must Be Shut Down
The Economic Collapse by Michael Snyder We have come to accept that we are permanently trapped in an endless cycle of debt and money creation. But the only reason why debt and money grow at an exponential rate is because that is what our system was designed to do. The Federal Reserve […]