The American Dream. Americas Richest Presidents. USA (United States of America) BBC US & Canada. Wealth Inequality in America. Wealth Inequality in America. The Health Of Every County In America, Mapped And Ranked. Many factors drive health: from how much people drink and smoke, and what sort of health care they have, to all kinds of economic and environmental factors, like employment and pollution.
To see how your county is doing, and what factors may be behind its performance, take a look at the County Health Rankings website. USA (United States of America) FREE - Federal Registry for Educational Excellence. In Economics and as CEOs. FDR On American Facism(image by JoeInSouthernCA) Reprinted from neweconomicperspectives.org Libertarians are profoundly anti-democratic.
The folks at Cato that I debate make no bones about their disdain for and fear of democracy. Friedrich von Hayek is so popular among libertarians because of his denial of the legitimacy of democratic government and his claims that it is inherently monstrous and murderous to its own citizens. Here's an example from a libertarian professor based in Maryland. "[W]hen government uses its legal monopoly on coercion to confiscate one person's property and give it to another, it is engaging in what would normally be called theft.
Study: Iraq, Afghan war costs to top $4 trillion. The U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will cost taxpayers $4 trillion to $6 trillion, taking into account the medical care of wounded veterans and expensive repairs to a force depleted by more than a decade of fighting, according to a new study by a Harvard researcher.
Washington increased military benefits in late 2001 as the nation went to war, seeking to quickly bolster its talent pool and expand its ranks. Those decisions and the protracted nation-building efforts launched in both countries will generate expenses for years to come, Linda J. Bilmes, a public policy professor, wrote in the report that was released Thursday. Study: Iraq, Afghan war costs to top $4 trillion. The Price of Free Enterprise. The Price of Free Enterprise Stephen H.
Unger February 17, 2014 Our Modern Dilemma(image by andrewfhart) A fundamental claim about our economic system is that efforts by private enterprises to maximize their profits benefit the public as a whole. The argument is that competition to increase sales of products and services leads to the development of better products, more efficient production, and lower prices. For example, in efforts to increase sales and profits, hat manufacturers frequently modify their designs and manufacturing methods to make their hats more attractive, or more effective at protection against cold or sunlight, and also less expensive. Illusory Money and the Economic System Construct. Julian Websdale, ContributorWaking Times The name ‘Rothschild’ first appeared in the 18th century when Mayer Amschel Bauer established his banking empire in Frankfurt, Germany, and changed the family name.
The Bauers were a notorious satanic family in Middle Ages Germany and the major Rothschilds remain master black magicians to this day. Mayer Amschel’s father, Moses Amschel Bauer, was a moneylender and proprietor of a counting house. The Rothschild dynasty is controlled by the family’s satanic black magicians who know how reality works and how they can manipulate energy and human perception. They know that money, like everything else, is energy and they have set up the financial system to exploit this knowledge. How Economists and Policymakers Murdered Our Economy. Source: Paul Craig Roberts (image by economic noise) The economy has been debilitated by the offshoring of middle class jobs for the benefit of corporate profits and by the Federal Reserve's policy of Quantitative Easing in order to support a few oversized banks that the government protects from market discipline.
Banking History Timeline - Follow the Money. Elite banking families – including the Rockefellers, Rothschilds, and Morgans – have gained control of the global economy through the central banking system.
They set up the Federal Reserve in the US in 1913 and have been manipulating the market to benefit themselves ever since. This timeline shows the pattern of American Presidents being assassinated after challenging central bankers and their monopoly on money, and the Federal Reserve’s artificial creation of booms and busts that causes people to lose their jobs, homes, and retirements, while the bankers further consolidate wealth and control. 1694 – Bank of England Established First Central Bank established in the UK. Served as model for most modern central banks. 1744- Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Founder of the Rothschild Banking Empire, is Born in Frankfurt, Germany Mayer Amschel Rothschild extended his banking empire across Europe by carefully placing his five sons in key positions.
Finally, A Rich American Destroys The Fiction That Rich People Create The Jobs. 60 Minutes America's real job-creators...who can't afford to create any jobs.
In the war of rhetoric that has developed in Washington as both sides blame each other for our economic mess, one argument has been repeated so often that many people now regard it as fact: Rich people create the jobs. Specifically, entrepreneurs and investors, when incented by low taxes, build companies and create millions of jobs. Our Only Solution to the Fed Debt Trap.
Stunning Facts About How the Banking System Really Works … And How It Is Destroying America. 40 Statistics About The Fall Of The U.S. Economy That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe. Michael Snyder | Activist Post | May 26th 2013 If you know someone that actually believes that the U.S. economy is in good shape, just show them the statistics in this article.
When you step back and look at the long-term trends, it is undeniable what is happening to us. There's America—and Then There's Washington - Andrew Cohen - Politics. Does the prosperity of the capital region color the perspectives of the journalists and lawmakers who live there?
Rob Shenk/Flickr Over at Harper's, Thomas Frank has an interesting essay that touches, among other things, on the destructive disconnect that exists between Washington, D.C., and the rest of the nation. I've written about this growing gulf from a political perspective. Study: America's Wealth Not Widely Distributed. Copyright © 2011 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. Poverty Rate Highest Since 1993; Median Income Reveals Lost Decade and a Half. Both official data and numerous news stories confirm how badly average citizens have fared in the wake of the global financial crisis. Attention Americans: You Won’t All Be Rich Tomorrow. (Source: Census.gov)> If we were all to become suddenly rich tomorrow, the government’s revenue problems are solved at the current tax rates, so no worries in that case. But I place long odds on that, so let’s move on to what’s actually happening. The One Percent. Niall Ferguson: A Conservative Take on America's Economic Divide.
The Fed Audit - $16 TRILLION in secret loans to bail out American and foreign banks. Reports on America. Americas Richest Presidents. Who Rules America? Power, Politics, & Social Change. By G. Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the U.S. Wealth Inequality in America. BBC US & Canada. The Guardian.