Even though economic conditions were absolutely awful, during the month of June the mainstream media kept insisting that the U.S. economy was "recovering" and the stock market kept surging on every hint of good news.
'Now's not the time to turn off the faucet when, you know, we should be using our strong balance sheet to borrow to stimulate the economy' - California Democratic Rep. Scott Peters
Republicans are considering extending the enhanced unemployment insurance benefit at a dramatically reduced level of $400 per month, or $100 a week, through the rest of the year, sources told CNBC.
There is a lot of discussion about the low levels of inventory for sale, as potential sellers have pulled their homes off the market or are not wanting to list their homes at the moment, waiting for the Pandemic to blow over...
• http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com by Michael Snyd
It is during moments of great crisis that we find out who we really are, and that is why the governmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been so heartbreaking.
Note to the reader: As I stated on Monday, don't blithely assume the economy is reopening and things will continue to improve. The nation is under the control of public health traitors.
• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By James Howard Kunst
The Covid-19 virus itself didn't run the United States into a ditch but it exposed the weakness and rot in the nation's drive-train, and now all of us passengers on that disabled bus must decide whether to stay helplessly inside the smoldering wr
Week after week we continue to get economic numbers that are absolutely horrific, and it appears that we are heading for a housing crisis that will be even worse than what we witnessed in 2008.
• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Theodore Dalrymple
There is no proposal so foolish that it has no advocates, or sometimes even its fanatics. If hope springs eternal in the human breast, delusion springs eternal from the human head.
Captain George Pollard Jr. was hungry. Actually, he was starving. He'd been drifting aboard a small whaleboat with some of his crew in the South Pacific for over two months.
Yesterday saw the US comprehensively beat China. Not in any sporting sense, and certainly not in any dimension of the current Cold War: and for those who still like to think the latter isn't happening, just listen to what US Attorney General Barr s
Even scarier than the pandemic for some in this country is the idea that they may have to actually get up off the couch, look for employment once again and earn money the old fashioned way: doing something productive.
James Corbett says that, in 2008, banks were bailed out with trillions that left taxpayers on the hook to pay for "too big to fail" banks, but people were critical of the scheme...
60% of restaurant owners said their landlords refused to give them deferments during the pandemic, while only 10% were able to renegotiate their leases. In total 73% of landlords ?" also under economic stress ?" refused to waive rent payments fo