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Is The Real Rate Of Inflation More Than Twice As High As The Number We Were Just Offered?

By / February 26, 2022

< img src ="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Inflation-2022-Pixabay-560x373.jpg" alt= ""width=" 560 "height= "373"/ > I warned you that inflation was going to get worse. On Thursday, we learned that the consumer price index was 7.5 percent higher in January than it was a year back. We are being told that this was the highest reading given that February 1982, […]

World War 3 This Week? Now We Are Being Told That Russia Could Invade Ukraine “On Wednesday”

By / February 25, 2022

Are you ready for war? After four years of peace with Russia under President Trump, it has taken Joe Biden and his all-star team of warmongers just over a year to get us to the brink of World War 3. Americans have grown accustomed to wars that only have consequences on the other side of […]

Doug Casey on Record Inflation, What Comes Next, and What You Need to Do Today

By / February 24, 2022

International Man: Inflation, as measured by the federal government’s own uneven CPI data, just recently struck a 40-year high. What is going on here? Doug Casey: The Consumer Cost Index (CPI) itself has been completely damaged throughout the years, mainly by altering definitions of what it involves. That’s why it’s fascinating to follow the work […]

Socialist Planning and War | David Gordon

By / February 23, 2022

Last week I wrote about Ludwig von Mises’s important letter to the New York Times in June 1942 about the Nazi economy. In the letter, Mises says that foreign trade poses a difficult problem for a socialist economy. Unlike the citizens of a country controlled by central planning, those in foreign countries don’t have to […]

Walmart Has Begun Putting Steaks Inside “Locked Metal Cages” To Keep Thiefs From Taking Them

By / February 22, 2022

Has it really concern this? We all understood that shoplifting was getting really bad all over the nation, however does Walmart actually need to start locking up the steaks? I was stunned when I first learned that pharmacies in our core city locations were locking up toothpaste and antiperspirant, but I didn’t believe that we […]

UK “reforming” human rights law … mandatory vaccines on the horizon?

By / February 21, 2022

Set Knightly The UK federal government is preparing to re-work its human rights law to put an increased emphasis on “personal responsibility” and “duties to the larger society”, as well as preventing people “abusing” their rights. Sounds quite terrible, doesn’t it? However let’s return to the beginning. In December 2020 the UK federal government announced […]

5 New Numbers That Prove That America’s Horrifying Inflation Crisis Is Getting Back At Worse

By / February 20, 2022

If you are less than 40 years old, you have actually never ever seen inflation like this in the United States. Despite all the warnings, our political leaders in Washington just kept borrowing and costs trillions upon trillions of dollars that we did not have. And in spite of all the warnings, the Federal Reserve […]

Mises Remembers Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

By / February 19, 2022

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summertime 2016) “On the Occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of His Death” [Translator’s Note: A records of the German language initial under the title “Der Financial expert Eugen v. Böhm-Bawerk– Zu seinem 10. Todestage” has actually been found in one of Bettina Bien Greaves’s books at the […]

Here’s Why Our Monetary System is a Giant Ponzi Scheme

By / February 18, 2022

Ponzi plans keep going up until the criminal is stopped from the outside. They never visit of their own volition. Bernie Madoff kept going till all of it exploded. In the year 2000 the Nasdaq composite surpassed a P/E of 200 before collapsing 78% by October 2002. The more successful a Ponzi the more outright […]

The Cost Of Residing In The United States Is Increasing To Definitely Ridiculous Levels

By / February 17, 2022

The majority of the time, the huge majority of Americans simply do not appreciate economics. And it discomforts me to state that, since I have been running a site about economics for more than a decade. However it holds true. Under normal circumstances, most hard working Americans do not have the time or the energy […]