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Michael Snyder

Did you know that 65 percent of all children in the United States live in a home that receives aid from the federal [...]

It isn’t just the price of oil that is collapsing. The last time commodity prices were this low was during the immediate aftermath [...]

Are much lower oil prices good news for the U.S. economy? Only if you like collapsing capital expenditures, rising unemployment and a potential [...]

If the quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble implodes, who should be stuck with the bill? Well, if the “too big to fail” banks have [...]

Are we about to see U.S. stocks take a significant tumble? If you are looking for a “canary in the coal mine” for [...]

Could rapidly falling oil prices trigger a nightmare scenario for the commodity derivatives market? The big Wall Street banks did not expect plunging [...]

For most people, Christmas is all about the presents. But how did such a supposedly sacred holiday become a festival of greed? Not [...]

Retail sales during the four day Thanksgiving weekend were down a whopping 11 percent from last year. This is a “make or break” [...]

There has only been one other time in history when the price of oil has crashed by more than 40 dollars in less [...]

Americans are going to spend more than 600 billion dollars this Christmas season, and on Friday we got to see our fellow citizens [...]

Was it a conspiracy or was it incompetence? Those appear to be the only two alternatives that we are left with after the [...]

From the dawn of history, elites have always attempted to enslave humanity. Yes, there have certainly been times when those in power have [...]

Are you in better shape financially than you were last Thanksgiving? If so, you should consider yourself to be very fortunate because most [...]

It isn’t just our economy that is crumbling. Something is happening to America that no amount of money will be able to fix. [...]

Are you waiting for the next major wave of the global economic collapse to strike? Well, you might want to start paying attention [...]

Did you know that some Americans are being hit with health insurance rate increases of more than 500 percent? Taking advantage of “the [...]

Barack Obama is secretly negotiating the largest international trade agreement in history, and the mainstream media in the United States is almost completely [...]

Do you want to know why Millennials seem so angry? We promised them that if they worked hard, stayed out of trouble and [...]

The parallels between the false prosperity of 2007 and the false prosperity of 2014 are rather striking. If we go back and look [...]

How do you fix a superpower with exploding levels of debt, that has a rapidly aging population, that consumes far more wealth than [...]

Did you know that we buy nearly five times as much stuff from the Chinese as they buy from us? According to government [...]

This is the big problem with fiat currency – eventually the temptation to print more of it when you are in a jam [...]

The idea that the United States is on the brink of a horrifying economic crash is absolutely inconceivable to most Americans. After all, [...]

Mark this day on your calendars. The Dow is at 16974, the S&P 500 is at 1982 and the NASDAQ is at 4549. [...]