All Entries in the "Economics" Category
Public Pension Crisis: Free Workers Syndicates The Way Forward
Posted by Brad Spangler on Oct 13, 2010 As CNBC reported recently, large US cities are facing a huge shortfall of unfunded public pensions, to the tune of roughly $574 billion. That’s in addition to the estimated $3 trillion gap in state-funded pensions, and it comes at a time of already rapidly declining tax revenue due to [...]
20 Things We Can Learn About The Future Of America From The Death Of Detroit
From The Economic Collapse Blog FEBRUARY 13, 2012 Do you want to know what the future of America is going to look like? Just check out what is happening to Detroit. The city of Detroit was once one of the greatest industrial cities in the history of the world, but today it is a rotting, decaying, [...]
Venn Diagram – Occupy Wall Street vs The Tea Party
Too bad the Tea Party was hijacked by Neo-Cons, but either way, I think this Venn Diagram is useful in illustrating that if activist want to be radical they need to strike the root. Which is Government. Plain and simple. -A.FreeMan
A House of Sand and Fog – Lies, Revolutions and Wars
by Nebojsa Malic from AntiWar.com, February 11, 2012 Last summer, as the Sandstorm mistakenly dubbed the “Arab Spring” swept across North Africa, a cadre of professional revolutionaries the Empire created in Serbia bragged about their role in the revolts to some European videographers. Sure, the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt may have begun spontaneously, but Empire-trained activists soon took control and [...]
Warren Buffet: Baptist and Bootlegger
How America’s favorite billionaire plays politics to make money Peter Schweizer from the March 2012 issue of Reason In 19th-century America, there was a concerted effort to ban alcohol sales on Sunday. “Blue laws,” intended to protect the sanctity and sobriety of the Sabbath, were pushed by what seemed like an odd alliance: Baptists and bootleggers. Baptists backed [...]
