One of the central pillars of the U.S. economy is melting down right in front of our eyes.  We spend gigantic mountains of borrowed money to maintain the largest and most bloated bureaucracy in the entire history of…

The Biden administration has given us an economy in which homelessness is at an all-time high, demand at food banks is at an all-time high, and poverty is growing all around us.  The rising cost of living is…

China has chosen to strike back and hit the United States with tariffs in response to the Trump administration’s 10% tax on Chinese goods. Beijing retaliated with duties, export controls, and an investigation into U.S. big tech. Bloomberg…

It is so important to know when you are holding a losing hand.  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau initially insisted that he would never back down, but Donald Trump had most of the leverage in this situation.  Canada’s…

Most Americans realize that the federal government is drowning in debt and that inflation is out of control.  But very few Americans can coherently explain where money comes from or how our financial system actually works.  For decades, bankers…

Will the insurance industry be able to survive tens of billions of dollars in losses from the Los Angeles fires?  There have been catastrophic fires in California before, but never anything quite like this.  So what is going to…

A demented crackpot is waging war against the American people in his final days. Related: Biden Permanently Bans New Oil and Gas Drilling Along Most U.S. Coasts, 625 Million Acres In a significant regulatory shift that took place quietly the day after Christmas, the…

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…

It is starting to look a lot like the last financial crisis.  Americans are defaulting on their credit cards at a rate that we haven’t seen in more than a decade, and this could have very serious implications…

All over America, our core urban areas are teeming with tent cities, hordes of homeless drug addicts, and vast throngs of newly arrived migrants that don’t have anywhere to go.  When I wrote about this topic one year…

The fact that economic conditions are getting worse is certainly not good news, but it is better to know in advance what is coming.  After four years under Joe Biden, the U.S. economy is a giant mess.  We…

There are signs of an impending economic collapse and yet the government continues to paint a rosy picture of prosperity while pushing inflation to limits. The economy is in far worse shape than most official reports would have the…

Why is demand at food banks all over the country higher than it has ever been before?  The media keeps insisting that economic conditions are just fine, but it has become quite obvious to everyone that this is not true.…

When one of my readers sent me a photo of egg prices at a store in western Washington state, I could hardly believe what I was seeing.  I clearly remember when I could purchase a carton of quality…

A cryptocurrency known as “Fartcoin”, which was created as a joke, is now worth more than 800 million dollars.  How in the world is that possible?  While the real economy is deeply struggling, a wave of euphoria is…

What in the world is going to happen if global food supplies continue to get even tighter?  During the second half of this year, global food prices have been surging.  A “perfect storm” of factors is suppressing production…

Have things been getting better for the middle class, or have things been getting worse?  Needless to say, the answer to that question is obvious.  The cost of living is absolutely crushing us, we can’t afford to replace…