by Mac Slavo | May 21, 2019 | Headline News
Ford Motor Co. is finishing up their final round of layoffs today. About 7,000 workers worldwide are losing their jobs in this “booming economy” as unsold vehicles continue to pile up in the once empty parking lots of closed retail establishments. CEO Jim...
by Mac Slavo | May 1, 2019 | Headline News
Millennial and generation Z workers are becoming increasingly miserable with their jobs and careers. Since we are told several times a day by the media that the economy is booming, why are so many young workers so disastrously melancholy all the time? The mental well...
by Contributing Author | Apr 24, 2019 | Headline News
This article was originally published by Charles Hugh Smith at OfTwoMinds blog Given that the economy is now totally and completely dependent on inflating asset bubbles, it makes no sense to invest for the long-term. Beneath the endlessly hyped expansion in gross...
by Mac Slavo | Apr 9, 2019 | Headline News
In what has become just one more example of government intervention going the exact opposite of what socialists intend, minimum wage laws are driving a “payroll tsunami.” Small businesses are being forced to lay off workers in order to comply with a law...
by Mac Slavo | Feb 21, 2019 | Headline News
The unemployment rate has been a perfect forecaster of a recession in the past 70 years, and it appears to be edging closer to triggering that signal.  “It’s never been wrong. It’s something to watch,” said Joseph Lavorgna, chief economist for...